Speech Pen: Predictive Handwriting based on Ambient Multimodal Recognition

Writing by hand can be such a pain. Here's a solution to this problem within the context of university lectures.

From the abstract:

"...we designed a multimodal input system, called speech-pen, that assists digital writing during lectures or presentations with background speech and handwriting recognition. The system recognizes speech and handwriting in the background and provides the instructor with predictions for further writing. The speech-pen system also allows the sharing of context information for predictions among the instructor and the audience; the result of the instructor’s speech recognition is sent to the audience to support their own note-taking. Our preliminary study shows the effectiveness of this system and the implications for further improvements."

http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/papers/kurihara_chi2006_speechpen.pdf