Summary of this post: Japanese = no
Remember in the first post where I said I would use this blog for whatever I was zomg’ing over at the time? As in not everything would be anime related? Now is the time!
Still, as it’s about Japanese, I guess it still fits with the overall theme. Anyway, this is a video of me testing the chinese handwriting recognition in Mac OS X Snow Leopard to write Japanese (oooh!). It worked pretty well if I may say so!
Also as I’m sick of converting videos and using weird players (see ringtone post), I made a YouTube account. Let’s be internet buddies or something.
Update: okay, turns out I fail, as this thing has distinct dictionaries for traditional and simplified Chinese. Take for example the name of one of my favorite manga: 未来日記. You can’t write 来 in traditional Chinese because the traditional form is 來, and you can’t write 記 in simplified, because the simplified form is 记. So unless you keep switching between simplified and traditional, it won’t work.
I feel pretty ashamed of even thinking this would work, but hey, it was worth a try. Hopefully Apple will add Japanese handwriting in the final, but I doubt it, as nobody will seriously use it. :/
At least it was fun playing with it the whole afternoon, I got it to recognize 製品 on the first try, I should have gotten at least some points for that.
