Generate handwritten text.
About
UTAU, but for handwriting (“concatenative voice/handwriting synthesis” from any user-defined audio/image files).
Benefits
- Create custom type from any handwriting and print documents with it.
- Apply custom hand wavering, misalign straight lines of text for more natural feel.
- Define derivative types for bold, italic and other styles.
- Define entire typesets for easy font switching via manuscript formatting commands.
- Easily label handwriting data, train machine learning algorithms on this labeled data.
At this moment the existing, tangible and usable version of this project is a logical clone of the UTAU program — meaning, any labeling techniques (for example CV, VCV, CVC, bre) are possible to implement. Translated to handwriting, that could be single letter, some syllable, whole word, whole phrase, ligature.
Comparison Table
| Q | Wristsaver v5.5 | Wristsaver Append |
|---|---|---|
| Exists? | ✔️ Development completed in 2020 | ❄️ Development frozen |
| Usable? | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Documentation, screenshots, video demos? | ✔️ Documentation ✔️ Screenshots ✔️ Animated gif demo |
❌ |
| Available? | ✔️ GitHub repository (click to open) | ❌ |
| Has GUI? | ➕ Only for metadata editor, haphazard. | ✔️ Intended to be GUI-centric application. ❌ Discarded experimental prototype exists (click to open). |
| What documents can it print? | Simple html+css |
🤔 |
| What labeling techniques are supported? | ✔️ Standalone single letter✔️ single letter that comes only after specific previous letters✔️ single letter that has visible connector to any previous/next/both letter |
Mix-match of text tokens |
Rationale
In honor of ancient traditions, certain ██████████████ require ██ to produce large amount of handwritten text in abysmally short timespan. Doing so often leads to ██████████, ███████, wrist injuries, damp morale, poor performance. Initially, wristsaver was designed to help alleviate such conditions. The append version is a low-priority research interest, since it has no practical value outside of very specific environment.