IBM releases language service that provides suggestions on writing style

IBM has released Tone Analyzer, a piece of software that can analyze text and provide suggestions about writing style. It can recognize the tone and make suggestions based on this so that the message of the message arrives better.

IBM says on its website that Tone Analyzer is available immediately, although it is still an experimental version. It is part of the Watson Developer Cloud, a set of services for ‘intelligent’ software mainly intended for companies. Tone Analyzer analyzes written pieces of text and can recognize the tone in them. It recognizes, among other things, the emotional charge of a message, by checking whether emotions such as fear or anger occur.

In addition, Tone Analyzer recognizes the ‘social tone’; this says something about the personal characteristics of the writer. For example, it can be recognized whether a piece of text the writer presents as open or cooperative. Finally, Tone Analyzer looks at what IBM calls the writing style, for example by estimating how analytical or confident a text is set up.

Ultimately, texts are thus analyzed across the three axes of emotion, social and style. Writers get an overview of all these components in the text and it is possible to get suggestions for alternative words. These can be used, for example, to better match a text to the desired tone.

On its website, IBM has opened a demonstration page where Tone Analyzer is demonstrated. Interested parties can also enter their own pieces of text there.