Since launching its freemium service three years ago as a browser extension, Grammarly claims to have 10 million daily active users around the world. The company also offers a premium service ($30 a month) that comes with bells and whistles like a weekly email listing your performance stats and an option to upload documents for a full grammatical scrubbing. Grammarly only works on English-language documents, but with more than 1.5 billion English speakers worldwide, the company is running a growth business.
I wanted to visit Grammarly to find out if there was a reason its plug-in was able to understand the dyslexic brain better than any other of software I’d used. I was curious if the reason the service’s AI was so good at catching dyslexic misspellings in all their muddled glory was because it was, in fact, learning from the world’s dyslexics each time they typed in and corrected their mistakes, accepting or refusing Grammarly’s suggestions. While poor spelling is not unique to dyslexics, maybe there’s some knowledge Grammarly’s AI was learning by eating our own unique brand of brain food. And maybe Grammarly had brought us all together—through this process of clicking on the offerings in the green box, we were helping each other out.
While Grammarly has offices around the world, I got lucky: Joel Tetreault, the company’s director of research and development, is based in New York City, where I live. I enter a coffee shop off Delancy Street in the Lower East Side
Article source: https://www.wired.com/story/end-of-dyslexia/