Nirnay Patel

Perfect Tense - AI-powered grammar checker with an API

Perfect Tense is an intelligent grammar correction tool that understands the context and meaning of text to accurately identify and fix errors. With a powerful API, Perfect Tense lets you easily add grammar correction to your product or workflow.

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Daniel Kempe
ooo, i'm interested in using the API in my tool. May need more than 300 calls per day mind...
Alex Cardinell
@danielkempe Awesome - we can definitely accommodate more than 300 calls! Just enter your email here (https://www.perfecttense.com/con...) and we can set you up with a free account to play around with and talk a bit more about how many calls you'd want for your tool.
Preetesh Jain
Yes I think any commercial application would need 300+ API calls. @cardine You might need to update the pricing accordingly.
Alex Cardinell
@preetesh_jain I agree - 300+ API calls is not nearly enough for most commercial applications. Right now we have a "contact us" for anything more than that since we are a new product and we want to make sure we fully understand the needs and use cases of any bigger commercial applications. Plus you get the red carpet treatment from us :) So with that being said, I've sent you a message about your specific use case!
Preetesh Jain
@cardine18 Awesome! Will check it out.
Primer
Hi, this looks cool and useful, but can you please explain the “AI” element? How much more intelligence is required in a spelling / grammar checker than what has been standard in many word processing apps and content management systems since many many years before that “AI” bandwagon hit town?
Alex Cardinell
@mickc79 That's very fair - artificial intelligence has become a bit of a buzzword, and we often find ourselves cringing when we see a product using AI to describe basic business logic or a simple classifier. A big differentiator for us (especially with our API) is the ability to automatically make corrections instead of just listing mistakes and potential fixes. A lot of our attention and focus is spent in this area, with a big focus on our internally developed language model. More broadly, we build, train, and test our own deep learning models. Although Perfect Tense is not a single all-encompassing model (yet!), we are doing quite a bit under the hood to be able to automatically fix grammar mistakes and give a final output that has no false positives. This is not possible by exclusively looking at Levenshtein distance or parse trees. With that being said, even our dependency parsing involves a bit of artificial intelligence beyond what is being used by word processing apps. Almost all dependency parsers are trained exclusively on good quality grammar and break down when there are grammar mistakes. So we have to do a lot of that development and training internally. Thank you for the comment, and I hope that helps answer your question. If you'd like to ask any follow-up questions about our AI in more detail, drop us a line (https://www.perfecttense.com/con...) and I'd love to talk with you about more!
Primer
@cardine18 Thanks for that! Sounds good!
Alex Cardinell
Hi hunters! I'm Alex, founder of Perfect Tense. Perfect Tense started out as a solution to one of our own problems. We do a lot of natural language processing work and we were having issues with poor quality input data. So we set out to solve this problem and spent the last 12 months developing a smart spelling and grammar checker that can both detect and correct mistakes. We have an online web interface, but we think the best use case for this tool is our API. This allows you to easily integrate automated spelling and grammar correction into your own products or add it to your workflow. If you are a developer, we would love to talk to you and see if we can help make your product or service better with better grammar. And if you are a user, we would love to hear what integrations you would find most useful. And of course, I would be happy to answer any other questions, so feel free to ask me anything!
Tarik Kurspahic
@cardine18 - Congrats on your product launch. Looks nice.
Agusti Fernandez Pardo
Arr any other languages in the roadmap? spanish?
Alex Cardinell
@schpn We hope to add other languages in the future, but unfortunately I don't think it will be happening anytime soon.
Naeem
How does it compare to Grammarly?
Alex Cardinell
@heynaeem Grammarly does not have an API, so I would say they are very different products. Grammarly is mostly a consumer product where you use their Chrome Plugin. Although we plan on having a Chrome Plugin at some point, that is not our unique value proposition. Our most value use cases are in places where you need an API. For instance cleaning input data for an NLP classifier, or automatically filtering which user submitted articles need to be proofread, or adding grammar correction to a downloadable tool. Lastly since we have an API, we have to focus more on precision. As a result our algorithms are geared specifically to ensure that we aren't making bad replacements, which makes our service the only service you can use for automated grammar correction.
vijay bharadwaj
Looks good. All the best
Rudy Lee
Looks good!
recruitsumo
I like it - Congrats on the launch
Benjamin Isham-Smith
Used the app on a free trial and wasn't particularly impressed. Cancelled my account during the trial only to found that they billed me anyway.