Zi announces Decuma 4

Feb 10 2006 - 05:55 AM ET | Backpage, In The News

Zi Corporation announced a new version of its handwriting recognition software, Decuma. Version 4 adds predictive features (including word completion) which is a first for handwriting recognition according to the company.

Decuma recognizes 100% naturally shaped letters in upper and lower cases, numbers, symbols and punctuation, and even enables users to text in two languages at the same time without having to switch input modes.

Like much of Zi's other software, Decuma must be installed by the manufacturer.

Decuma supports the following languages:

Decuma languages include Afrikaans, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (British and American), Estonian, Finnish, French (European and Canadian), German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (European and Latin American), Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog and Turkish.