p2p news / p2pnet: PDA users do it all the time.

What? Use handwriting recognition software.

Nintendo players, however, have been confined to tapping out messages or using portable keyboards to talk to each other.

But no longer. Canada’s Zi Corp, based in Calgary, Alberta, says it’s licensed its Decuma handwriting recognition technology to Nintendo for DS games, making it the first handheld gaming platform to offer dual screens and touch-screen technology.

“With Decuma, Nintendo DS users will experience natural handwriting recognition previously only available to PDA and smartphone users,” says cto and ceo Milos Djokovic.

With its Decuma Alphabetic handwriting recognition software, gamers will be able to “closely mimic writing with pen and paper, with letters and words being written and interpreted in a natural flow, allowing for easy editing and correction,” promises Zi.

It says there’s Decuma Alphabetic, for English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and other western languages; Decuma Chinese for simplified and traditional Chinese; and Decuma Japanese, which supports Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.

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See:-
Zi Corp – Zi Corporation Licenses Decuma Handwriting Recognition to Nintendo Co., Ltd. for Nintendo DS, October 26, 2005

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