Google has introduced a new ‘Proofread’ feature for beta users of the Gboard keyboard for Android.
The latest beta version of the Gboard app (v13.4) gets the ‘Proofread’ option. Powered by generative AI, it can check the text for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors and fix those issues on the fly. It will improve written content without resorting to third-party services like Grammarly.
According to 9To5Google, the Proofread option appears in Gboard’s toolbar, and once you tap on it, the feature processes the content and offers you a revised version of the content by fixing spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors in it. From what appears in the screenshots shared by the publication, if you like the revised version, you can tap on the thumbs-up button to replace your content with the revised version. If not, you can hit the thumbs-down button to ignore it.
In actual use, this feels like a great evolution to existing autocorrect, though it’d be nice if Google could pull this off without offloading the processing to its servers. Perhaps with future updates.
Also in the pipeline for generative AI in Gboard is, as we first reported, a new feature that creates stickers using AI, as well as a new “tone” feature that can help you reword a message with a different tone, such as formal and informal. Those features are not yet showing up without app modifications.
