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God Forbid: Google Launches Handwriting Feature For Gmail & Google Docs

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Xiangye Xiao, Product Manager at Google  says we shall all be able to use our own handwriting when composing emails or documents. Users will be able to use their own handwriting to input words directly into Gmail and Google Docs with their mouse or trackpad.
This will make signing documents easier and also drawing that quick cartoon to your friends, but its a horror to some guys with crappy handwriting!

Xiao said,” We offer wide language support, however in some cases using the keyboard is less than ideal. Whether you’re a student trying to include a foreign phrase in your paper or an international consultant hoping to begin your message with a friendly local greeting, now you’ll be able to use your own handwriting.”

Available for both Gmail or Docs, users select the handwriting input which is represented by a pencil icon of the language they want to use. One can write a single or even multiple characters at once and the service is available for over 20 languages in Google Docs and over 50 languages in Gmail, including Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Russian.

“Handwriting input makes the internet easier to use by people worldwide and is also part of a larger effort to break the barrier between languages, check it out in Google Mobile Search, Google Translate (Web, Android and iOS), and the Chrome browser,”said the firm.

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Sam Wakoba
Sam Wakobahttp://techmoran.com
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba

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