Myanmar Language Sketch Soft Keyboard on Android

Abstract — This paper describes a gesture stroke recognition technique for sketch touch screen input method on Android. With the expansion of touch screen based computing in today mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets, new user interface prototypes may incorporate gesture stroke input method on mobile devices. There are many gesture input methods for Latin, Chinese and Japanese language. According to the text entry methods in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature, Myanmar language gesture input method is still under developed research area on today Android smart phone. Myanmar language is not the same as Latin language. It is a complex text language with so many multi-stroke sketches. Thus, there are many issues in the consideration of gesture stroke input method for Myanmar language. This aim of this paper is to propose a new sketch soft keyboard on Android platform with the combine used of multi-stroke handwritten recognizer and rule based disambiguation method in gesture stroke recognition. In addition, the text entry speed and error rate experiments of the proposed gesture stroke recognition technique with native users are also analyzed.