App to Transform Typed Text into Handwriting

Artificial Intelligence Computer Program Transforms Typed Text into Handwriting

Chloe Olewitz | September 14, 2015

We’ve become accustomed to using computers to compose text, but other than a few specialty fonts, our computer communication skills have been in typed language. Now a new computer program can learn how to write a message in handwriting that approaches the organic, without a pre-designed font package to choose from.

Source: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi

<more at http://www.techly.com.au/2015/09/14/artificial-intelligence-computer-program-transforms-typed-text-handwriting/; related links: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi (Type a message into the text box, and the network will try to write it out longhand (this paper explains how it works, source code is available here). Be patient, it can take a while!) and http://www.writingfont.com/send-handwritten-letters-online/ (Email a Handwritten Letter...Add a personal touch)>