WhiteSmoke brings you all the great features, like Grammar Error Explanation, Enrichment on Demand, and the most advanced grammar checking available. We’d also like to give you some extra tips to help you get the most out of your WhiteSmoke experience:

1.      WhiteSmoke is based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology. This means that WhiteSmoke is optimized to detect and correct real-life errors – simply entering gibberish and words that do not create a grammatical structure will not give accurate results, as it does not reflect natural sentence construction.

2.      Compared to other grammar checking tools available, WhiteSmoke’s grammar capabilities are extensive and advanced. However, NLP technology is not perfect due to the infinite number of sentence constructions possible in English. The recommended way to use WhiteSmoke is to analyze prepared text, correct the errors found, and build on the enrichment suggestions offered. This will allow you to take your writing to the next level, and we ensure that over time you will notice a great improvement in your composition.

WhiteSmoke is an evolving technology, updated and improved everyday by our Linguists and Language analysts, but our best reference is your feedback and your remarks. Please feel free to contact us with suggestions and improvements that will help us develop the best writing tool possible.

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“The real secret behind WhiteSmoke’s technologies is our user base. Our users give us constant feedback, and a very wide variety of texts for analysis – without this interaction, our algorithms would not be so advanced,” states Liran Brenner, VP R&D at WhiteSmoke. “Our users make a passionate community, and have stuck with the product throughout its development due to the great potential it brings to written communications. WhiteSmoke’s writing technologies level the playing field, allowing English as a Second Language speakers, and those of us who simply need a good editor for our writing, to confidently write error-free texts.”

WhiteSmoke writing technologies are based on natural language processing (NLP) technology. The program works by analyzing an entire sentence, understanding the structure, and making corrections and suggestions based on a combination of grammar rules and complex statistical models. This approach is unique, and was a factor in leading Business 2.0 to include WhiteSmoke as one of its “31 Best Business Ideas in the World” of 2006. The latest release, WhiteSmoke 2009, is the complete fruition of the WhiteSmoke idea – an intelligent and dynamic tool for writers; a tool that works alongside any text-based application.

Hilla Ovil-Brenner, WhiteSmoke CEO, says, “I am proud to say that WhiteSmoke 2009 is a very mature product for professional writers, and for people who just want to write correct English in their emails and instant messages. Now that we have launched WhiteSmoke 2009 with its advanced grammar checking and style checking features, we hope to reach out to a wider audience, especially writing and copy editing professionals, and writers of English as a Second Language. The new Hi-Tech Writing profile is also aimed at high tech and IT professionals, another niche that needs professional text editing and enhancement. We at WhiteSmoke truly hope to revolutionize written online communications by bringing quality English to everyone.”

WhiteSmoke is a company in the field of English writing technologies with a focus on products that enhance and correct grammar, spelling, and writing style. WhiteSmoke products are based on natural language processing (NLP) technology, featuring unique and patented artificial intelligence algorithms for text analysis. As well as the WhiteSmoke 2009 desktop software, WhiteSmoke makes its technologies available through other channels, such as a browser-based text editor, and specialized OEM versions designed for integration with 3rd party service providers.

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Once WhiteSmoke is installed on your PC, you use it as follows. First, you create your text in your chosen application (e.g. Microsoft Word). Select the text you want to analyze by highlighting it in the normal way, then press the WhiteSmoke shortcut key. This is set by default to F2, though you can change it if you like. In Word a separate “Enrichment” button is created on the toolbar, and you can click on this as an alternative to pressing the shortcut key.

WhiteSmoke will then open in a new window, with your selected text in a box in the middle. Spelling mistakes are highlighted in red and grammar mistakes in green. When you move the cursor over any item, suggested corrections (a range of them) appear in a box at the foot of the screen. You can accept or reject any correction just by clicking on it.

Perhaps the most interesting feature for writers, however, is the enrichment function. The WhiteSmoke software analyzes your writing and looks for ways it could be improved, e.g. by using an alternate word or phrase (thesaurus function), or by adding extra words. All candidates for enrichment are highlighted in blue in the WhiteSmoke window, and suggested additions and alternatives are shown in the boxes below. Again, you are at liberty to accept or reject any change. Once you have gone through all the program’s suggestions, just save the changes and close WhiteSmoke, and the corrected and “enriched” version will automatically appear in the original application.

Overall, I was impressed with how easy WhiteSmoke was to use, and its effectiveness. Obviously Word does have its own spelling and grammar checkers, but WhiteSmoke’s appear to work better. This is especially so with the grammar checker, which is far more user-friendly than Word’s. The “Enrichment” function is particularly good for revealing ways in which text can be improved. Obviously not all the changes the software suggests will be appropriate, but simply seeing the suggested alternatives can jolt you out of using the same old words and expressions, and give your writing a new, fresher feel.

The version of WhiteSmoke I evaluated was the standard one, which is really aimed at business users. It would still be useful for writers, but WhiteSmoke also offer a version of the software specially tailored for use by creative writers. If you’re a novelist or short story writer, this would probably be the version to go for. It has a larger vocabulary than the standard version, and is less likely to suggest inserting business-related terms such as inventory and turnover into your sensitive description of a woodland sunset…

Are there any drawbacks to WhiteSmoke? Well, a possible one for some users is that you need to have an Internet connection open while you are using it. WhiteSmoke say this is because the program’s database is constantly updated via the web. For most users this is unlikely to present problems, but if you regularly use your computer off-line, it might be a bit frustrating.

WhiteSmoke is probably ideally suited for writers who are buzzing with ideas but know that they have a few shortcomings in grammar, punctuation, and so on. Even if you’re reasonably confident in these areas, however, WhiteSmoke can give you a fresh perspective, and suggestions for improving passages of text you may have become “bogged down” on.

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