> > Sorry to stick my opinionated nose into things I know very little about, > but...
That's OK, it's a bit of fun, isn't it? > From what I remember from the press release, the Amstrad penpad thingy > "learnt" over time what your handwriting was like. While it proabably has > more memory than the SAM, and voice recogition requires more memory, > something, even syllabalic commands would be feasible. Using this method. > But then, I've only ever programmed in BASIC... > Yeah but reconising characters on a bit of paper which you scan in, or draw on your penpad (or whatever) is a damn sight easier. There's OCR (Optical Character Recognition) s/w bundled with lots of Amiga/PC (etc) hand scanners, and I think the Post Office have used it for years to automatically read postcodes, though I'm not certain about that. Nige
