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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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DeepL is different in my opinion. They always focused on machine learning for languages. They must have acquired fantastic data for their Models. Especially because of the business language and professional translations which they focus on. They keep your intended message in tact and just refine it. Like a book post editing. Grammarly and other tools force you to sound like they think is best. DeepL shows, in my opin…

Any suggestions for models ppl can run locally that are close to deepl

If you are talking about the current status of DeepL, that would be a low bar.

Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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Harper is decent. I've relied on Grammarly to spellcheck all my writing for a few years (dyslexia prevents me from seeing the errors even when reading it 10 times). However, I find its increasing focus on LLMs and its insistence on rewriting sentences in more verbose ways bothers me a lot. (It removes personality and makes human-written text read like AI text.) So I've tried out alternatives, and Harper is the closes…

Have you tried Hemingway Editor?

Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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Looks awesome! I’ll give it a try over language tool. Is there any reason why there is no firefox extension?

There is! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-gramm...

Awesome! Thank you :)
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