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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help Decipher Shorthand?
« on: Wednesday 22 November 23 17:50 GMT (UK)  »
The hotel mentioned in the clipping was founded in 1916 so the writing would have had to have been more recent than that, if the clipping actually corresponds to the shorthand writing.
That would conflict with the date that Bard came up with, but it would also indicate that the writing isn't particularly old.  The DAR was founded in 1890, so it couldn't have been any older than that, for sure, if the clipping corresponds to the shorthand writing.

I just went through and asked Bard some probing questions regarding the accuracy.  Those details are added to the chat link previously provided.  Bard stated that it was able to map the symbols to a Teeline dictionary with 98% accuracy and 2% was interpolated based on context cues.    I also probed it regarding the accuracy of the date and it analyzed the image again and came up with 1990.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help Decipher Shorthand?
« on: Wednesday 22 November 23 15:44 GMT (UK)  »
I agree that AI can come up with incorrect results, but I provided the translation because it seemed like a very logical translation.  The Daughter's of the American Revolution are very much dedicated to gathering information about the descendants of people who fought in the American Revolution.  The context of the translation made sense and the full translation was logical and grammatically correct.  Since AI is very dependent upon data that already exists though, it is possible that it just tied its translation attempt to a note from the D.A.R. that already exists somewhere and didn't actually generate that translation.
The previous manual attempt provided here didn't make much sense at all though.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help Decipher Shorthand?
« on: Wednesday 15 November 23 21:30 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, that is the site.
I am not sure if I can share a link since I am new to this forum but here is a link for the conversation with Bard.  It can help to have examples of how to prompt it.

https://g.co/bard/share/734d14516146

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help Decipher Shorthand?
« on: Wednesday 15 November 23 16:55 GMT (UK)  »
I just stumbled upon this forum and this post.  Not even sure how I got here but it intrigued me, especially since the post is so old and didn't end up with much of an answer.  I also see that it has been viewed many times.  I decided to use a modern approach to answer this question and uploaded the image into Google Bard and asked it to decipher it.  I had to modify the image to increase contrast.  When I did, it seemed to identify it as Teeline shorthand and seemed to come up with a pretty thorough, meaningful translation.  Below is the translation AI came up with.


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22 July 1890

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I am writing to you today on behalf of the Daughters of the American Revolution. We are currently working on a project to document the lives of women who participated in the American Revolution. We have learned that your grandmother, Mary Jones, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and we would be honored to include her story in our project.

We would be grateful if you could provide us with any information you have about your grandmother's life, including her date of birth, date of death, and any significant events in her life. We would also be interested in any photos or other memorabilia that you may have of your grandmother.

Thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Jane Doe

Daughters of the American Revolution

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