Dasher v6

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An information-efficient text-entry interface driven by natural continuous pointing gestures, or alternative input methods such as headmouse, gaze and switch input

Dasher, originally developed by the inference group at Cambridge University has been a popular and very fast text writing system for all people but particularly useful for those with disabilities who use it as a means of communicating in speech and in writing.

The project is having a complete rewrite which we hope will have far reaching outcomes - a highly efficient language model (making word & letter prediction faster), easier to manage across different platforms and easier for third party developers to integrate. Interested in helping us? See the community pages for how you can and take an eye on the blog.

Latest Dasher Updates

Developer Update June

This is the first in a series of developer updates that will be published a few times a month to keep those interested informed of Dasher progress.

Hello Dasher Fanatics! This is the first in a series of developer updates that will be published a few times a month to keep those interested informed of Dasher progress. I will mostly attempt to keep the information targeted and concise. Repository …

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A new website is here

The dasher v6 project begins publicly on the web

So a group of us have been working on Dasher v6 for a little while now - and we figured its about time to get something out there publicly about the inner workings of the project - so you can help out or just find out where this is all up to. The …

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Find out about dasher users

See some of the users who use dasher from around the world

If you are a user get in touch

Contributions welcome!

We do a Pull Request contributions workflow on GitHub. New users are always welcome!

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