Leedham, Graham

Ma, Yang

Blumenstein, Michael

2009

Handwritten shorthand systems were devised to enable writers to record information on paper at fast speeds, ideally at the speed of speech. While they have been in existence for many years it is only since the 17th Century that widespread usage appeared. Several shorthand systems flourished in the first half of the 20th century until the introduction and widespread use of electronic recording and dictation machines in the 1970's. Since then, shorthand usage has been in rapid decline, but has not yet become a lost skill. Pitman shorthand has been shown to possess unique advantages as a means of fast text entry which is particularly applicable to hand-held devices in mobile environments. This paper presents progress and critical research issues for a Pitman/Renqun Shorthand Online Recognition System. Recognition and transcription experiments are reported which indicate that a correct recognition and transcription rate of around 90% is currently possible.

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 23(5), p. 1031-1051

1793-6381

0218-0014

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5614

en

World Scientific Publishing Company

Handwritten Shorthand and its Future Potential for Fast Mobile Text Entry

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