The top AI tools for Technical Writers today

If you’re a Technical Writer and you think the only way to use generative AI is by copy and pasting from ChatGPT, think again. We’re seeing help authoring tools integrate generative AI technologies into their applications to help you people as you write. The goal is to make you more efficient and create better content…. Read more »

How Generative AI can help Technical Writers create better outputs – The custom chatbot

Some of the main questions that software Technical Writers have about generative AI are: Can they create a chat bot for the documentation they are writing for? Can they control what content the chatbot uses, so it doesn’t hallucinate, doesn’t make up information, when it doesn’t have the right answer? Will the chatbot be useful:… Read more »

Podcast 139: Techsmith’s Daniel Foster on the contentious relationship between technical writers and video content

In this podcast episode, we talk to Daniel Foster, Director of Strategy at TechSmith, about the contentious relationship between technical writers and video content. A growing trend among technical writers is the integration of video content alongside traditional documentation and visuals, offering a dynamic and immersive medium to enhance user understanding and engagement. However, writers… Read more »

How Generative AI can help Technical Writers save time – Extracting specifications

Here is a Use Case of where generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can help Technical Writers save time in producing user documentation. This is a scenario where you have to extract technical specifications from a collection of PDF documents. For more information, see Cherryleaf’s “Using Generative AI in technical writing” e-elearning course.   Transcript… Read more »

How Generative AI can help Technical Writers save time – “The Transcript”

How can generative AI tools like ChatGPT help in the work of the Technical Writer or the Technical Author? How can it help with technical writing? In this video, we’re going to explain one scenario where it can help. It comes from our training course on Using generative AI in technical writing. This scenario is… Read more »