Ginger Software, headquartered in Boston, helps users communicate with AI-based writing tools. It corrects mistakes based on context and works on the sentence level, not just locally. Ginger’s translate function is integrated into their extensions, mobile & desktop apps. The user chooses a language and input the text to be translated. The language translation software can be used to communicate with others or to improve one's own English skills.
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Read&Write
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Read&Write is a literacy support tool that helps individuals of all abilities read, write, and express themselves with confidence. For education and the workplace, its assistive features include text-to-speech, word prediction, and research tools for users with diverse learning needs.
I really think that Read&Write outshines the competitors. Its variety of tools offers so many options to so many students/people. Some of the other tools were cumbersome, only worked on installed programs like MS Word or only worked in its own environment. Read&Write works …
It [Ginger] is a perfect tool for daily work because it has allowed us to create and write better content with exceptional writing and excellent grammar. It has an MS Word add-on [and] our team has used it through a desktop application and mobile. It has proven to be an appropriate platform for all companies; the API has allowed us to deeply review all the grammar, and each document or HTML pages to correct any type of error.
As I support students with SEN in a 6th Form College this is all of the time. A case is of a student who is going to university and who is going to claim DSA but needed to know what software would benefit them and how so that they could understand more fully before their assessment I was able to show them Read&Write and what it it could and would do for them on the course that they had chosen. The student was amazed and so much more confident in their chosen path that they would be able to achieve it independently.
[It] allows you to create sentences with the use of various keywords, synonyms, and the best expressions that help create a perfect sentence.
It has exceptional features and functions powered by the best AI technology.
This platform can be used from any device and through the web, it provides you with tools such as Linkedin, Facebook, Outlook, Gmail, Salesforce, among others.
You can receive recommendations from Ginger no matter what you are doing in your browser.
In the Company, we have worked for a year with the application and we have not found fault in it and we like everything that it allows us to do immediately and with great ease since its handling of spelling makes it very efficient, which wakes that our intelligence is better artificially.
The admin tools need help, it is frustrating to not be able to see who currently has a license without referencing a source document, and dangerous for multiple administrators to update licenses without accidentally removing people.
Integration with Microsoft OneDrive has been spotty, especially related to OrbitNote, which is necessary for using Read&Write tools with PDFs.
Some of our occupational therapists would appreciate additional word prediction options, like letter-by-letter speech output.
I'm just really impressed with the software and the access it gives to learners who are used to coming up against barriers in education. It's a quick-fix for a learner - something they can access usefully and productively with very little training. I also love that learners can access Read&Write on their devices at home - that really is a game changer.
I am giving this an 9. Not a perfect score because working on PDFs is better but not yet as easy as I need for it to be. Working with many students who have executive function challenges, I need a smooth simplistic access method. We are not quite there yet for writing on PDFs. Overall the toolbar on Read&Write is super easy to access and I love that the suite includes several tools on the toolbar providing a solution to many accessibility challenges.
The support team at Texthelp is excellent. They're all super helpful and open to feedback and new ideas. Still, more importantly, they are ultimately fully committed to aligning with us and ensuring they help us provide the best education possible. Furthermore, they're open to new features and always communicate this incredibly well.
It took a solid 2 weeks for R&W to work on our students chromebooks even after reaching out to tech support. The toolbar was greyed out and not accessible to students. Took a long time before tech support helped us solve this problem.
Have used Grammarly ealrier which is also a good tool available in market. If comparing the cost thing then i believe GInger is a bit costly [Premium/Buisness] version compare to Grammarly. However, In my opinion it is completely dependent on the end user that how comfortable they are while using a software/API like this. For me, Ginger is the first option to use for my learning/writing skills.
Read&Write has the benefit of better word prediction than Helperbird. The word prediction is not as good as Co:Writer (due to volume of topics and web-scraped topics, and iPad app), but Read&Write killed Co:Writer so it is not a competitor anymore, unfortunately. I would choose Co:Writer over Read&Write if the tool still existed. OrbitNote is a Read&Write tool and should include all of the tools available in Read&Write, but is notably missing the new AI voices, new word prediction, and ability to add voice notes without highlighting portions of text, which can be a difficult motor movement for some students. I do appreciate the "tap to speak" button on OrbitNote, which allows students to just click where they want to hear text read aloud, as opposed to highlighting, and the integrated OCR recognition, avoiding the clunky screenshot reader.
