Another look at Ghotit – a very good spellchecker
Ghotit spellchecker has improved a great deal since I last looked at it, and wrote about it in this blog. Also I have learnt more about how it works. It does not work on a word by word basis but work as on continuous text. It is rare in that it can suggest when you have made a real word error. Here’s a sentence with three real word errors;
“John is not here. Can I tack his plays in the really tem?”
Ghotit is able to suggest the correct word. Real word errors can be as many as 20% of the errors that a dyslexic can make, though 10-15% is more usual. It can suggest the correct word when a confusable is used.
I was asked by Jane and Michael to go to there party.
How many spellcheckers do you know that can do that?
As well as the method of comparing the typed text with a mass of existing texts, Ghotit is gaining great deal of awareness of the phonetic errors that some poor spellers make. try this sentence in your spellchecker and then use Ghotit.
