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Tip: Microsoft Word 2019 now has read aloud.


mki

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So, this is a feature that I've really been looking for in a text editor.

It really improves your ability to edit content because if you read it your own writing, you have a tendency to be blind to your own grammar errors.

I find that it's a lot easier to fix grammar mistakes, if you listen to the words being spoken back to you.

The feature is hidden away under the review ribbon.

There are obviously other solutions, but I think it's really nice that it's built right into Microsoft word now.

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Problem I have with all this Read Aloud schwango is how it never sounds too zackly like Moi.

I tried Dragon Natchrlly Speakin' a while back — an it made evrythin' I said sound like frickin' gibberish.

My solootion?

Call Granma over.

She read so sweet when you were a kid, so why should automation consign her to a lonesum misery existence filled only with tryin' to dig out her teeth from behind the sofa with a spatula?

Tellya, fix Granma up with sherry, mebbe a pipe fulla tobacco smells like burned cardigans, an' she will read most anythin' out loud — even porno.

"I got plenty empty nests to fill — so for sure I can distinguish my colons from my semicolons!"

 

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  • 8 months later...

This is how I have been doing all my editing for some time now. When I am creating copy I'm too close to it to catch some errors. Somehow it feels like my brain gets tied up in the message I want to say and refuses to see the actual words I wrote, if that makes sense. Usually have no issues catching syntax type errors, but it's the things that just don't seem to read correctly that I miss.

When I have it read back to me I catch a lot more.

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