Animal Forest could take on an all new level with this technology...

Zi Corporation, a leader in the field of intelligent interface solutions, today announced an agreement with Nintendo Co. to facilitate handwriting technology on the Nintendo DS.

“As the leading provider of handheld video game systems in the world, Nintendo has a reputation for adopting innovative technologies that improve the user’s experience with its products,” said Milos Djokovic, chief technical officer and chief operating officer, Zi Corporation. “With Decuma, Nintendo DS users will experience natural handwriting recognition previously only available to PDA and smartphone users. Zi continues to bring its multi-modal input products to leading mobile phones, gaming platforms and smartphones across the globe.”

The Decuma portfolio comprises three handwriting recognition software products: Decuma Alphabetic, for English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and other western languages; Decuma Chinese for Simplified and Traditional Chinese; and Decuma Japanese, which supports Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.

Decuma technology will be available to all developers of DS titles and opens up some intriguing possibilties such as its use in games like Animal Forest; we’ll have further information soon.