Typing on touchscreen keyboards can be frustrating. Most of us will pass for illiterates at some points when chatting. The nature of the QWERTY keyboards on smartphones just makes it difficult to avoid making any typographical errors. Other times when it’s not us making typos, it’s the autocorrect function making us look bad by changing words in our native language or community slang to absolutely unrelated words – type in ‘Buhari’ and your two autocorrect options will be ‘Bulgaria’ and ‘by haricot’!
Thankfully, Google Research recently launched a new handwriting input method which allows users to handwrite rather than type in their messages. Google handwriting input supports 82 languages. It also lets you insert a lot of emojis with your handwriting by simply drawing them.
Another thing about the handwriting input is that it recognizes cursive, good and terrible handwriting. So in case your handwriting isn’t any different from a chicken scribbling on sand, your words would still come out comprehensible.
Before the handwriting input was the speech input which most never used because the speech input probably never understood our accented English and unfamiliar jargon, hence, misinterpreting our original statements, especially in noisy environments. It really was no use trying with the speech input. Autocorrect was enough trauma. LOL.
Users of the handwriting input claim it is the most convenient and fastest of the three input methods.