Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering at Apple, recently gave an interview to our colleagues at Popular Mechanics. During this exchange, Craig Federighi notably gave some information regarding iPad learning techniques. During the presentation of iPadOS 14, the Cupertino company revealed“Scribble”a feature capable of assimilating handwriting. In other words, thanks to this update, iPad owners have the ability to write notes faster using the Apple Pencil, while still being understandable for the iPad.
How is this possible?
But how did Apple manage to implement such a process? Craig Federighi went into a little more detail by revealing some secrets.“When it comes to understanding [writing] traits, we collect data. We find people all over the world, and we get them to write things. We give them a pencil, and we make them write quickly, we make them write slowly, we make them write with a certain slant. All these variations”.Then the magic happens, finally artificial intelligence.
Federighi points out that analyzing what you write as you go requires a lot of computing power. The new iPad has the power to predict which line you're going to draw to continue writing your sentence. Craig Federighi ends up saying:“It has to happen in real time, right now, on the device you hold in your hands. Which means that the computing power of the device must be such that it can perform this level of processing locally”. This statement means that the iPad does not have time to connect to the cloud.
If you want to try Scribble, you must have an Apple Pencil or Apple Pencil 2 and above alla compatible iPad, with the iPadOS 14 update installed. You still need to know which products are capable of installing the update,find our complete guide on this subject.
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