Popular writing assistance software Antidote takes it a step further. Its editor, Druide Informatique, has published his own refactoring engine. For Canadians, this is the first application of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Beginning to test algorithms capable of rephrasing entire sentences, or even paragraphs!
A small downside is that this new feature is not available to all users. This reformatting mode is only available in Antidote Web, i.e. the Antidote+ variant not to be confused with traditional Antidote which comes with a perpetual license and therefore does not require an annual subscription.
Three formulations
“In this mode, Antidote can offer up to three different paraphrases of the original sentence or paragraph; we choose the one we like best and enter it directly into the text. And since Antidote interacts directly with a range of web, Windows and Mac programs, its paraphrasing fits in naturally.” Without copying and pasting. Blog post.
In fact, an icon labeled “Paraphrasing” allows you to process part of your text (up to 500 characters). This limitation involves selecting paragraphs of your text and following step by step to improve your text. We can imagine that this limit will be revised during the final release, since Druide currently only offers a beta version. It’s also worth seeing if these new features will appear in the traditional format because they require computing power, he said This interview Available online.
Helpful suggestions
As you may have noticed, some of the suggested paraphrases to the right of her text in Antidote Web can be interesting, but others are not, as they sometimes lead to repetition. Therefore, we can resume reformulating its text. If you are satisfied with these modifications, the key allows you to replace the chosen selection in its text with a single click. not bad!
Druid rightly points out that this function can be particularly useful for a French speaker writing English text, as long as he uses the bilingual form adapted from Antidote+. Finally, this crutch will be particularly useful for fixing the breaks reported by Antidote, which indicate possible errors of a grammatical nature. We’ll be returning to these new features in the coming weeks after trying them out in more depth.
Xavier Studer
Paraphrasing using Antidote Web is being offered, at no additional cost, as part of beta testing to the general public. Druide invites all users of Antidote+ and Antidote Web to take advantage of the rework and provide their feedback.
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