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[COM]
- HOC
- Speech musculature, vocal chords, respiratory system: vocal
sound production
- CIM
- Microphone, speech recognition algorithm
- COM
- Synthesized handwriting in the form of pixel ink, or a
handwriting trajectory production animation is presented to the user
- HIC
- The user reads the handwriting from the screen, directly at the
time of spoken text dictation, and at a time of later reading,
potentially also by another user
In this form of bimodality, spoken words are transformed into synthesized
written text. It is unclear whether the underlying algorithm may make use
of the fact that handwriting is in fact richer, than an intermediate
representation like ASCII is. Handwriting does contain some parameters,
like pen pressure, speed, or character size and slant, which could be
inferred from the spoken text. Examples: loud in speech 
big
in handwriting, hasty speech 
handwriting more slanted to the
right. A writer-dependent handwriting synthesis model costs much time to be
developed, although better tools and models are more and more
available [303,271]. Depending on the type of
handwriting synthesis model, shape simulation or combined shape and
movement simulation can be performed. The first type (shape only) is
already available in commercial form.
Esprit Project 8579/MIAMI (Schomaker et al., '95)
Thu May 18 16:00:17 MET DST 1995