{"id":6529,"date":"2022-07-25T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/spelling-checkers\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T13:39:46","slug":"spelling-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/spelling-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling checkers for South African languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"296\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Logo.SCSAL_.FullColour-1024x379.png\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Logo.SCSAL_.FullColour-1024x379.png 1024w, https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Logo.SCSAL_.FullColour-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Logo.SCSAL_.FullColour-768x284.png 768w, https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Logo.SCSAL_.FullColour-1536x568.png 1536w, https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Logo.SCSAL_.FullColour.png 1843w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/296;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>SADiLaR, in collaboration with the<a href=\"https:\/\/humanities.nwu.ac.za\/ctext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Centre for Text Technology (CTexT<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/humanities.nwu.ac.za\/ctext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/a>), is pleased to offer free spelling checkers and hyphenators for ten of South Africa&#8217;s official languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/X75MC2kUnPdnSXyRA\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"600\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CLICK-HERE-TO-DOWNLOAD-THE-SOUTH-AFRICAN-SPELLING-CHECKER-TOOL-FOR-FREE.gif\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 350px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 350\/600;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The installer can be downloaded free of charge and is designed for use with Microsoft\u00a0<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Office for Windows. Installation is in English and limited support is available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Languages offered include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Afrikaans\u00a0 |\u00a0 isiNdebele\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0isiXhosa\u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0isiZulu\u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0Sesotho\u00a0 |\u00a0 Sesotho sa Leboa\u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0Setswana\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0Siswati\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0Tshiven\u1e13a\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0Xitsonga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum system requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fully operational personal computer (PC) with:<br \/>Microsoft\u00a0<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Office 365, Microsoft<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Office 2021, Microsoft\u00a0<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Office 2019 or Microsoft\u00a0<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Office 2016 and Windows<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>11, Windows<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>10 or\u00a0Windows<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>8.1\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The spelling checkers for South African languages is based on extensive research by CTexT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0to ensure accurate spelling and hyphenation across comprehensive vocabularies of the ten South African languages. They are available free to use through SADiLaR.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the spelling checkers cannot do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The spelling checker cannot take the place of a text editor or a grammar editor. The spelling checker therefore cannot recognise or correct the following types of mistakes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grammatical errors: if you use words that are in themselves valid words, but are used in a grammatically incorrect way<\/li>\n<li>meaning errors: if you use a correctly spelled word incorrectly in a sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also limitations in terms of available data, which means that not all the words, particularly domain-specific terminologies, will be recognised by the spelling checkers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call for collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users can increase the coverage of their spelling checker by building their own custom dictionaries, a function which the spelling checkers easily allows for.\u00a0 They can also share their custom dictionaries with the developers (see more information in the helpfile) to help improve the spelling checkers in future updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We also welcome contributors and collaborators to help with expanding the tool\u2019s wordlists and functionality. If you have data or tools to share please reach out to us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@sadilar.org\">info@sadilar.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SADiLaR, in collaboration with the\u00a0Centre for Text Technology (CTexT\u00ae), is pleased to offer free spelling checkers and hyphenators for ten of South Africa&#8217;s official languages. The installer can be downloaded free of charge and is designed for use with Microsoft\u00a0\u00ae\u00a0Office for Windows. Installation is in English and limited support is available. \u00a0 Languages offered include: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}