Writy’s Assistant Now Finds the Words That Don’t Sound Like You

You know the feeling. You reread a page you were proud of, and one word sits there like a guest who wandered in from another party. It isn’t wrong, exactly. It just doesn’t sound like you. Starting with the latest beta, Writy’s assistant can point those words out.

Thoreau’s Solitude, from Walden, in Writy’s editor, with one word of ours in it: “Synergy” where Thoreau wrote “Sympathy”. Above it, Find Off-Tone Words’ box: the dial at Medium, “Voice: Lyrical, reflective 19th-century American nature essay, first person.”, the reason in red, “modern business jargon”, and the suggestion, “Sympathy with”, 1 of 1, with Skip, Accept and Add as Alternative. “Synergy with” is underlined in red, the caret before it.

It’s called Find Off-Tone Words. It reads your text first, to hear the voice it’s written in, then shows you the words that don’t belong, one at a time, each with a better fit. You decide every one: take it, leave it, or keep it as an alternative for when you’ve slept on it. You choose how picky it gets, and your dialogue and quotations stay out of its reach.

We tried it on Thoreau, with one word of ours slipped into Walden. Claude found it, called it “modern business jargon”, and suggested the word Thoreau wrote. On our test texts it caught nearly every word we planted, the subtle ones less often.

It needs your own Claude or ChatGPT: Apple’s model is too small for this kind of reading.

Thank you for testing Writy. Try it on something you wrote a while ago, and tell us what it found.