Our Top 5 Tools for Language Lovers
At Arria, a natural language generation (NLG) company, we have a love affair with words. Communication through words is a singularly human ability, but NLG, a subset of artificial intelligence, allows our data to communicate with us by generating words and narratives automatically. Our community of customers and partners understand the power of language and the need for crystal clear communication, especially around their data.
As we close 2021, we wanted to share our favorite language tools with you:
1. Grammarly
Grammarly is a grammar and spelling checker for proofreading articles, book chapters, student essays, blog posts, and any digital text.?Available as an app or a browser extension, it will automatically suggest corrections, edits, and alternative words. It will review your text for:
Grammar and punctuation
Grammarly identifies grammar and punctuation mistakes. It also provides real-time suggestions and guidelines on how to correct these mistakes.
Spelling
Grammarly includes a good spell-check tool that keeps your writing mistake-free.
Plagiarism
It has a plagiarism detector, which works by comparing your writing to millions of web pages. This feature will be helpful to both students and authors.
Writing tone and delivery
By providing real-time insights, Grammarly helps you get the right level of formality and friendliness in your writing to ensure you have the best delivery and engagement.
Clarity and readability
Grammarly scans your text for difficult-to-read sentences and paragraphs. Using AI technology, it proposes concise rewrites that are easier for the reader to understand. You can also review the overall performance of your writing, which includes the readability score based on the Flesch Reading Ease test.
2. Wordtune
Wordtune is a must-have tool for any writer, at any level, in any profession. It reviews and corrects your digital content. In addition to helping students and other users learn new words, the rewriting feature gives you alternative ideas for structuring and rephrasing sentences.?
The product includes the following features:
Rewrite
This feature allows you to explore new ways to rephrase sentences.
Identification of casual and formal tones
A feature that allows you to choose the right tone to match your subject matter.
领英推荐
Shorten and expand
This feature allows you to change the length of your text to suit your format.
3. Ginger
Many language lovers consider Ginger the best alternative to Grammarly. ?It is available as a mobile app and has a browser version as well. Two notable features of Ginger are:
Rephrase
Ginger’s AI suggests alternatives for expressing your intended message. This feature is great for streamlining wordy sentences.
Identify AI-based Synonyms
Ginger allows you to double-click a word on any website to see a variety of synonyms and expressions so you can find the perfect match.
4. Thesaurus.com Grammar Coach
Thesaurus.com’s Grammar Coach has a free version that is a bit weaker than the other solutions, offering a synonym swap, spell check, and grammar correction within a set character limit. However, the premium version has a robust array of tools, including:
Plagiarism checker
As with the other tools, Grammar Coach ensures that the content you publish is original.
Inclusive language
As well as the usual writing checks, Grammar Coach also makes suggestions to avoid bias in your writing.
Tone detection
This tool catches informal language, passive voice, and more.
Engagement
By catching and replacing overused words, you can ensure better engagement with your audience.
5. English Language & Usage Community
Unlike the tools already listed, this is a community site where you can ask questions and get answers from other linguists, etymologists, and English-language enthusiasts. You can also “watch” certain tags or set the tool to ignore certain tags. In this community, you can go wild and ask complex language questions. It’s great for anyone with a keen interest in the English language.
If you love language as much as we do here at Arria, you might benefit from one or all these tools. Sign up to follow our blog for updates on NLG and how Arria uses artificial intelligence to give you a deeper understanding of your data.
Snr Instructional Designer | Hornbill
2 年This is a great resource for any writer! I knew about Grammarly but I'd never heard of the other tools. Tracy Nicol, you should check this out.
Chaos Coordinator at The Social Buzz Lab: A Strategy First Digital Marketing Team helping brands, companies and individuals build Buzz on social media for over 15 years. Fueled by coffee and a love of marketing. ?
2 年Thank you for sharing this! I knew about Grammarly, but the other tools were new ones to me. Good information!
Helping Sales Professionals and Sales Leaders Reclaim Their Confidence and Their Energy!
2 年These are super helpful!! I didn’t know about any except Grammarly! Thank you!
Author, Product Safety Advocate, Volunteer
2 年Language is for lovers! Oh, wait, this is for language lovers! Great content, Arria NLG!