Technology giant Google has now come out with a new application called Google Handwriting Input which allows users to input in 82 languages and also allows users to draw emojis. The application can function as an additional input option for any Android application but is available for devices running on Android 4.0.3 and up. For Indic languages, I tested the application on Kannada. The application is pretty good in picking up on scrawls and scripts of Indic languages, but what when I tested it out, it faced some difficulty in recognizing a bindu or circle which is used to differentiate phoenetic sounds. The application used to take a circle input for the bindu as the English "O" or zero. Perhaps something to be worked on. That said, Google did say on its blog that for complex script languages especially in South Asian languages the keyboard is less standardized and may be unfamiliar. The blog further added that complex ideographic languages might be more difficult to input. " For example, keyboards for ideographic languages (such as Chinese) are often based on a particular dialect of the language, but if a user does not know that dialect, they may be hard to use," the post read. The app requires users to download a language pack for each of the applications offered. You'll also have to go to settings and enable the Google Handwriting Input keyboard for this to work. The application can also run offline and Google said that it has worked to make recognition…
