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Does anyone know #OpenSource #FreeSoftware that can not only provide #spellchecking but also #language style checking, for the lack of a better term?
For context, I would like to counteract the online US cultural influence on me by re-modifying my language style to be consistent with the British English I learnt when I was little. Spelling differences like o/ou are only a small part of it though.
Vocab, slang, phrasing are aspects not covered by spellcheckers.
@lianna I think you should look into some LLM for this. oss models are easy to run with Ollama and most are very good in English. Personally I use Gemma2 for allot of language related prompts
@peterhagen That was one of the things I had tried, and it seemed somewhat competent when I did. The problem is that I have no way of verifying the results.
When I tried letting the latest ChatGPT generate a text in my native dialect of German, it mixed untrue clichés and stereotypes from all kinds of dialects, so I am not sure whether it's the right tool for the job.
@peterhagen
By the way, your post settings there are incorrectly set to Dutch even though the post was made in English. This will mess up people who use post language information for filtering or accessibility like screen readers. :)
@lianna thanks! but 
... My mastodon app shows a new reply is marked as English. Not sure where I can change it.
And yeah, it's important for the LLM to know the differences between dialects indeed. Sometimes for 'technical' translations, i provided an additional translation table for example. This helps the LLM to stick to what you expect it to do.
@lianna It's not FOSS, but I use https://languagetool.org/ and really like it. Has plugins for browser, libreoffice and thunderbird.
@lianna
I can also recommend LanguageTool.
@tripplehelix
At least the core is distributed under the LGPL (look for "source code" on their website).
