Suck at grammar? You’ll be happy to know that Google’s introducing a grammar checker into its Docs app; it’ll use the power of machine learning to spot your mistakes as you type.
The company says that its AI can identify a wide range of errors and suggest fixes for them, “from simple grammatical rules like how to use articles in a sentence (like “a” versus “an”), to more complicated grammatical concepts such as how to use subordinate clauses correctly.”
TechCrunch noted that David Thacker, Google’s VP for G Suite product management, explained that the tool uses a machine translation-based approach to sort your writing:
In language translation, you take a language like French and translate it into English. Our approach to grammar is similar. We take improper English and use our technology to correct or translated it into proper English.
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That’s good news for folks who are just getting started with Google’s suite of productivity apps online; it’ll also come in handy for people who want to use a plugin like Grammarly, but can’t install third-party extensions on the devices they use for work.
The new feature is available from today to G Suite users who sign up for Google’s Early Adopter Program; the company says it’ll improve over time and get better at finding errors.
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