Originally posted on The Horizons Tracker. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly adept at deciphering our language, to the extent that researchers are confident that it can write passable jokes, detect empathy, and various other crucial facets of human communication. As such, AI is increasingly used to do things ranging from writing news stories to undertaking branding campaigns. A startup, called Boomerang, are aiming to deploy AI to help you better manage your email. The company, who have a plugin for Gmail and Outlook, recently launched a feature called Respondable, which they claim will take control of your emails in an intelligent way.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly adept at deciphering our language, to the extent that researchers are confident that it can write passable jokes, detect empathy, and various other crucial facets of human communication. As such, AI is increasingly used to do things ranging from writing news stories to undertaking branding campaigns. A startup, called Boomerang, are aiming to deploy AI to help you better manage your email. The company, who have a plugin for Gmail and Outlook, recently launched a feature called Respondable, which they claim will take control of your emails in an intelligent way. The system monitors your emails and provides you with a live rating based upon the probability of you getting a response.

Mountain View, CA based Boomerang has launched its Respondable feature. Users can get real-time analysis of their emails as they write them, while offering suggestions for how to improve the message before they send it to ensure it gets a response. There are certain sure-fire ways to ensure your email gets read according to Boomerang. There is a 53 percent response to emails written at a 3rd grade reading level. However, emails sent at a college reading level only get a response 39 percent of the time. The best length of email is between 50 - 125 words.

The battle over how to make our lives more productive continues, especially on the email front. Baydin has spent the past six years helping people bring a degree of normalcy to their inbox through its Boomerang for Gmail plugin. This takes a scheduling approach -- you can specify when you want to send or receive email. But solving distribution is just one part of the equation, as the more important problem is how to create impactful communication that requires fewer emails. Enter Boomerang Respondable, a plugin for Gmail and Outlook that uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) to predict email replies and then makes suggestions about how to improve your writing and strike the right tone.

When it comes to writing emails, it isn't always easy to know the right words to say – and how you choose can determine whether or not your emails get a response at all. Now, artificial intelligence could help to solve this problem. Boomerang has added a new feature called'Respondable' to its Gmail and Outlook plug-ins, using a combination of AI to suggest ways to improve your writing and increase the likelihood of a reply. Boomerang has added a new feature called'Respondable' to its Gmail and Outlook plug-ins, using a combination of AI to suggest ways to improve your writing and increase the likelihood of a reply Respondable blends multiple machine learning techniques, using neural networks and deep learning along with other tools to analyze the text and provide instant feedback. Each of these factors are ranked alongside the email, with suggestions to improve your writing and increase chances of a reply.

Why don't you get a response to every email you write? It's possible your recipient is busy. Or maybe, just maybe, you didn't write a quality email in the first place. Boomerang's Respondable widget that you can download right into your browser to be used within Gmail. To help you craft better emails that improve your response rates.

The battle over how to make our lives more productive continues to wage on, especially on the email front. For Baydin, it has spent the past 6 years helping people bring some normalcy to their inbox through its Boomerang for Gmail plugin which provided a scheduled approach -- specify when you want to send or receive email. But solving distribution is just one part of the equation as the next part is just how do you create impactful communications so that it requires fewer emails to be sent. Enter Boomerang Respondable, a plugin for Gmail and Outlook that uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) to not only predict email replies, but suggestions on how to improve your writing and striking the right tone. Integrated directly into the Compose window of the support email client, this feature analyzes your writing style, such as word count, politeness, subjectivity, question count, and reading level to help get the point across.