Jennifer: Hello, everybody, welcome back to my channel,
Jennifer Marie VO where I teach you different ways that you can
make money online. If you haven't already, make sure to
subscribe to my channel where you can get more videos just
like this one. So a lot of my subscribers come from people who
have found my channel because of my videos on how to become a
transcriptionist or captioner. So while I do a lot of videos on
different money making platforms, I also like to give
you advice on the tools that you need to be able to pass these
tests and do the transcription jobs correctly to make it as
easy for you as possible. So a lot of my subscribers are not
native English speakers, and a lot of them are native English
speakers, but make mistakes when it comes to spelling and
grammar. So today, I have a video for you. I've been doing a
bunch of research on five free spelling and grammar checker
tools. I had to do a lot of research and finding ones that I
found were the best because a lot of the times when you check
and look for these, they keep trying to take you to grammarly,
which is a paid tool. And yes, it is an excellent tool. But it
can be very expensive if you you know aren't making any money and
you're not yet a transcriptionist. Now, you might
ask me, Why do I need a grammar checker if you know I'm
transcribing and I'm supposed to transcribe everything that they
say. And that's true, you wouldn't change the grammar. But
sometimes grammar can also mean when you are using a word
incorrectly. So maybe you type then instead of then or effect
instead of effect. And all of these are very important. So you
need to be making sure that you are using proper punctuation and
proper spelling when it comes to these different grammar mistakes
that are common. If you haven't already go to sparkle English
and I will put the link in the description and this is my
English teaching channel where I teach you things like how to use
commas how to use apostrophes, English mini lessons on commonly
confused words, then then effect effect where we are where, where
and all these things that are very common that people make
mistakes when they are transcribing. I will be
releasing more videos with this channel as well. So you might be
wondering how are these tools useful. So they are great tools
to use while transcribing to make sure you spell words
correctly and use proper punctuation. They're also useful
if you are applying to a job in English and you want to make
sure you sound professional in your resume or your CV, because
no one will hire someone if their English is really bad. You
know, you want to look as professional as possible. And
these tools will help you you know speak English or appear to
write English perfectly. They will also help you draft a
professional job proposal with no mistakes. And this is helpful
if you are applying to a freelance position on Upwork or
another freelancing website where you need to apply to a job
in English and saying why you're good for the job. These tools
will help you write the proposal or your cover letter correctly
and more fluently. And best of all, they are free. So you don't
need to pay a cent to use them, I'm not going to try to sell you
anything at the end of this video or promote any product
where you have to pay. These are all five free ways that you can
check your spelling, punctuation and grammar. Okay, so the first
website is scribens.com. So you just go ahead and type in
scribens.com. And what we're going to do is we're going to do
a check with the exact same little script full of errors
that I made. And I'm going to copy it and paste it into here.
So what you would do is you would just copy and paste
anything that you've transcribed, or your cover
letter or whatever, and paste it in here. And you can also import
a file that you need to check. And one thing you can do here is
you can click on Options. And you can check whether you want
to do British English or American English vocabulary. So
I would choose American English since For example, let's say I'm
transcribing most companies want you to transcribe in American
English, then I'll click OK. And all you have to do is click
check. So now it's gone through and it's if you click on it, it
will tell you what the mistake is. So here obviously, I didn't
include an apostrophe. So I just click to fix it. Here. They're
they're telling us and they even tell us the grammar rule. The
first word of a sentence should start with an uppercase letter.
So we're going to click on do which is their correction.
We're going to click on it again. They're telling us the
pronoun is always in uppercase. And this is really good too, to
help you even understand why it's an error so you don't make
it again in the future. And they've even caught this one,
which should be to it shouldn't be to Oh, so we fix that. If
question. If did all of these they've seen here, it should be
bigger with two G's. They've even caught this grammar
mistake, because this should be this is a comparative. So we
have to say then not then again, they've caught it. And let's be
doing I, again with the apostrophe, again here, while
they're saying this sentence is missing a dot out, so they want
us to put a period at the end. But they're, they're not
catching this should be a C, this should be I've made a
mistake here intentionally to see if it would catch that.
Okay, so this has done a pretty good job, there are still
mistakes that it hasn't caught, it didn't catch it, this is a
mistake, or this is a mistake, or this or this. It's caught a
lot of things, but not everything. So this is all it's
caught. So it's caught a lot. But there's still, you know, it
could still be better. So let's go and try the next one and see
if it does any better. This one is reverso.net, you can
literally just go to reverse o dotnet. And it will
automatically take you here. So this is great if you want to
translate as well. But we're going to use this just for their
spellcheck. So we're going to right click and paste. And then
we're going to click on spellcheck. So for this one,
they have automatically made the changes that they want, that
should be made. So you can see, I didn't talk to him today,
they've corrected this perfectly. Do you need any
friends to help at the dinner, they've corrected the you
they've corrected me properly, they've corrected all of this
properly. And when you highlight it over it, you can see the
mistake that you made. So in red, I've spelt it E and y. And
you can see there that they know what the mistake is and what
they've changed it to in the black. Again, friend, wrong
word, it should be end. Okay, again, the two was incorrect. So
this one is excellent, it has almost done it perfectly. And
then you can go ahead and click copy and paste it where you
want. Now, it hasn't added a period at the end of these
sentences, or quotations anywhere. And it hasn't put the
D here in capital for Do you need any friend to help at the
dinner. But overall, reversal dotnet for this parent for this
paragraph has done a better job than scribbins. So let's go over
here to spell check 24 dotnet, copy and paste this my same one
as before. And then you're just going to click on Check your
text. Again, if you click on this arrow here, you can check
if you want to correct it in whatever language or whatever
version of English, the default is English us. So we'll just
click on Check your text. Now this one, they're trying to sell
you their premium version on there, like there's three more
suggestions found. But we're just going to ignore that and
see how they did. So again, if you just click on it, it will
allow you to change it to whatever their suggestion is. On
this one. They did catch the do. And this one they caught the
need any which is great friend. Bigger boyfriend. What doing?
Okay, here, they know it's an error, but they're not picking
up that this should be tonight with I ght don't you're okay. So
this is interesting, because this one caught that this should
be a capital for do and the reversal dotnet didn't catch
that. So you know, sometimes you might say you do a check in
reverse a dotnet you can then copy this and then paste it into
another one. That also works well. And just to make sure
using a combination of them that you'll have a perfect script at
the end because they obviously are not all using the same
software or whatever. Because this one caught that this should
be advice. And you know, this one caught some things that this
didn't. So right now of the three I still think reversal
dotnet is the best. But for example, let's say I copy this
script here, and I pasted it into spell check 24 now let me
click on Check your text. And you can see here, they're
telling me that this needs to be capital and this needs a period
at the end. And then if this is almost perfect, all we need is
they didn't add quotations here. And that's because quotations
can be a bit more a bit trickier.
So they didn't add the quotations but everything else
they did add. Okay, the next one I want to tell you is that you
can use Google Docs as well for their spelling and grammar
checker. So when you open when you go to docs google.com and
all you need is a Gmail account. Then you'll click on blank and
the plus icon. And you would paste your script in here. And
then you just have to go to Tools, spelling and grammar,
spelling and grammar check. And then you just go through the
list here. So they all tell you what they think that you should
change and click except you just keep going. And they're catching
a lot as well. Now this one, they are saying what do but we
don't want, we want this to be what are, so we'll ignore that.
Okay, and then it says document looks good. So they've done a
very basic job. In comparison to the other ones, you again would
still need to make some edits to this. So I think Google Docs is
great. But of all the ones we've seen so far, I still think the
best one is reversal. dotnet combined with spellcheck 24. Now
the last tool I want to show you is my personal favorite, because
not only you can use it when you're writing emails
automatically for everything without having to copy and
paste. And this is an extension for Chrome. So I'm showing you
all of these other ones first, because you can use scribbins,
or reversal dotnet, or spellcheck, 24, or Google Docs
on your mobile phone. But this next one, the grammar and spell
checker language tool, which you can find in the Chrome
extensions. Now, I will link you in the description below to all
of these. But this one is an extension for Chrome. So this
one you would have to use on your computer. And if you have
Google Chrome, I very much recommend you download this. So
all you have to do when you go to this extension is click on
Add to Chrome, it will ask you whether you want to add the
extension, you'll click Add extension, then then click OK.
Got it. And now this little language tool is extension here
is going to help you up on any field where you start typing. So
if we go back to Google, we just did this document here, I'm
going to refresh this. And language tools also works in
combination with Google Docs. So it says on the side of each
page, you can now see how many issues language tool detected.
So Google Docs automatically, you know, they thought this was
a finished text, but it wasn't and combining that with language
tool to click on AI. Now, all you have to do is click and it's
telling you all the different errors that they're finding. You
can just keep going through it until it's corrected. Okay, so
let's say we are applying for a job. For example, let's say I'm
applying to be application. Okay, so I've just created this
little email as an example. And what you can see is
automatically at the bottom here, you click on that and it's
telling you all of the different mistakes that you have made in
this letter. Again, at the top here, you can select you know,
English or whatever version of English you want. We're sticking
with English American. Now here I put dear hiring manager. Well,
they're saying Did you mean dear? Yes, I did mean dear. Then
they're showing you some possible spelling mistakes. And
you can see that red underlined means there's a spelling error.
And then the yellow is a potential grammar mistake or
other mistake. So again, I did mean manager. Here, they're
telling me I should have seen said saw. Now again, if you are
doing this as a transcription and you're transcribing someone
else, you would not change this because, you know, you don't
have to correct their grammar. But if this tool you're using
because you're applying for a job or something else where you
know, click stop, because that's correct. Again, your there
should be your or believe, excellent, candidate. attached,
resume, sincerely. Great. The only thing that they missed is
wood because this type of wood is the material you know, wood
like a wood on a tree or wooden table, and it should be wood so
they didn't catch that. But this little tool will work anywhere
on any sort of form or field where you are typing in
something like this, this will
automatically work for you. So overall, of all the ones we
tried out, I think the best one was reversal dotnet it
automatically fixes all the errors for you. And it really
was only missing a couple things here. And by combining this with
spell check 24 it almost got everything off. All we had to do
was add some quotations and commas here because it didn't
catch that this was supposed to be in quotations. But I think
combining reverso.net with spellcheck, 24 or using Google
Docs and combining that with the language tool are your best
bets, and your best options for getting an almost perfect script
or email or transcription job once you have finished
transcribing, or once you have finished creating an email for
all of these, the one thing that it doesn't do a great job of is
correct punctuation, except for periods or question marks or
quotation marks quotation marks usually you have to know where
to put them in. I will be releasing on my Sparkle English
channel a quotations rules under my English writing essentials
category. That will be one of the next videos I will release.
So please subscribe to my channel and I will be releasing
that video soon to help you out even more. I hope you enjoyed
this tutorial on different spelling and grammar checker
tools that you can use for free to help make transcribing and
writing in English easier for you. Thank you very much for
watching this video and I look forward to seeing you in my next
one.