Dasher: information-efficient text entry

May 11th, 2010 by My Efficient Planet Leave a reply »

Google Tech Talks April 19, 2007 ABSTRACT Keyboards are inefficient for two reasons: they do not exploit the redundancy in normal language; and they waste the fine analogue capabilities of the user’s motor system (fingers and eyes, for example). I describe a system intended to rectify both these inefficiencies. Dasher is a text-entry system in which a language model plays an integral role, and it’s driven by continuous gestures. Users can achieve single-finger writing speeds of 35 words per minute and hands-free writing speeds of 25 words per minute. Dasher is free software, and it works in all languages, and on many platforms. Dasher is part of Debian, and there’s even a little java version for…

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3 comments

  1. koCmoC36 says:

    I just love dasher. It’s awesome. But I would like to have a guess function for my Lithuanian language. Then it could be the best program for me!

  2. mcubuntu says:

    audio tends to desynchronize form the video towards the end of the clip. I wonder if it isn’t a general utube problem (since I’d never actually seen such a long clip before).

  3. hughtub says:

    Brilliantly efficient. It’s just a shame that English is such an imperfect, less than purely logical, language. This certainly does favor the furthered efficiency of language and the weeding out of long synonyms of shorter words.

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