Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Decuma 4 is Here! Well, Sort Of.
Posted by Darius Wey in "SOFTWARE" @ 02:00 AM
"Zi Corporation (Nasdaq: ZICA) (TSX: ZIC), a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, today announced the release of the latest version of its state-of-the art Decuma handwriting recognition. Decuma Version 4 is a new predictive, personal and powerful pen-input solution now available for OEMs to embed. It adds predictive text capabilities, including word completion and increased personalization to handwriting input. It also more than doubles the language repertoire of the award winning Decuma software to 31 languages - including the complex Chinese and Japanese scripts."
We all thought Decuma was "dead", but apparently not. Zi Corporation is showing off Decuma 4 at the 3GSM World Congress this week, with the latest version of Decuma Alphabetic offering some awesome features such as word prediction, dual-language messaging, and a user-defined dictionary and shortcut library. Decuma Chinese offers similar features, plus enhanced character recognition, and support for pinyin. All in all, Decuma supports 31 languages. v4 sounds like a great upgrade, but unfortunately, it appears to be an OEM-dependent embedded release only. I guess we'll simply have to wait and see which Pocket PC manufacturers include it in their devices.
We all thought Decuma was "dead", but apparently not. Zi Corporation is showing off Decuma 4 at the 3GSM World Congress this week, with the latest version of Decuma Alphabetic offering some awesome features such as word prediction, dual-language messaging, and a user-defined dictionary and shortcut library. Decuma Chinese offers similar features, plus enhanced character recognition, and support for pinyin. All in all, Decuma supports 31 languages. v4 sounds like a great upgrade, but unfortunately, it appears to be an OEM-dependent embedded release only. I guess we'll simply have to wait and see which Pocket PC manufacturers include it in their devices.
