New Software Can Analyse & Mimic Your Handwriting

                Scientists have developed a software that can analyse the handwriting of any individual and accurately replicate it, and advance that may spark the comeback of the handwriting word in a world dominated by the QWERTY keyboard. Researchers created ‘My Text in Your Handwriting’, a programme which examines a sample of a person’s handwriting and generates new text saying whatever the user wishes, as if the author had handwritten it themselves. Stroke victims, for example, may be able to formulate letters without the concern of illegibility, or someone sending flowers as a gift could include a handwritten note without even going into the florist. It could also be used in comic book where a piece of handwritten text can be translated into different languages without losing the author’s original style. The machine learning algorithm is built around glyphs. The software learns what is consistent across an individual’s style and reproduces this. To generate an individual’s handwriting, the programme analyses and replicates an author’s specific characters choices, pen-line texture and color, the joining-up between letters, and vertical and horizontal spacing.