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v6.4.0

📝 TL;DR

  • Major dictionary expansion for English, German, and Spanish.
  • New cross-language database of 461 proper names and 212 abbreviations.
  • Extended style guides with inclusive language (English) and 1,624 new Ukrainian entries.
  • Cleaner autocorrect with invalid pairs removed and smarter prioritization for typos and names.
  • Grammar engine updates for German and Spanish with better punctuation, case sensitivity, and compounds.
  • New AI proofreading engine for English with fixes for dashes, pluralization, medical terms, and time expressions.
  • Improved German and Spanish AI engines with fewer odd or incorrect suggestions.

Enhancements

Spelling

  • Significant improvements across all languages with major English, German, and Spanish dictionary expansion.
  • New common word database for all languages with 461 proper names and 212 abbreviations to be recognized as valid cases.
  • Improved the case sensitivity approach in suggestions and exclusions from suggestions for added dialectal cases, affixes, technology, common, and proper name terms, chemical elements, shortened abbreviations, common, abbreviations, proper names, archaic, slang, and technology terms.

Autocorrect

  • Removed invalid autocorrect pairs where archaic or dialectal pattern is a valid word.
  • Added new prioritization pairs for proper name misspellings and common typos or misspellings.

Style

  • Validated and extended dialectical, doubtful, barbarisms, profane patterns for English, German, Ukrainian, and Swedish. 
  • Added style guide entries for LGBTQIA+ and disability-inclusive language for English.
  • Significant Ukrainian style guide enhancement (1,624 entries) for anglicisms, antysurzhyk, and profanity categories.

Grammar

  • Third-party grammar rule engine improvements across German and Spanish with a focus on reducing incorrect punctuation suggestions.
  • Improved the mechanism of case sensitivity handling and compound word processing.

AI proofreading 

  • Release of a new version of an in-house AI-driven proofreading engine for English which fixes bugs with en dashes/em dashes/hyphens, pluralizations, medical terms, split sentences, past and future time after 2021, cases with time patterns am/pm/AM/PM to a.m./p.m.
  • Improved proofreading engines for German and Spanish, in particular, for nonexistent, incorrect spelling, incorrect punctuation, and weird suggestions.