Here are my settings on OS X. Note the British voice (Oliver), the medium-fast speed, and the keyboard shortcut.pic.twitter.com/OdTGPvkxCy
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Life hack I don’t share often enough: using text-to-speech to proofread your writing. Your eye will gloss over all sorts of mistakes (repeated “of”s, extra or missing “s”s, etc.). But your ear catches them all.
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Any particular text to speech app you recommend?
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I just use the one that comes built into OS X
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I also use text-to-speech to create an mp3 of talks I’m giving to help me learn them while I’m walking on my commute.
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That's a good tip also!
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Better than reading it out loud?
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Yes. Your brain will autocorrect things when reading aloud that a TTS engine won’t. It’s far easier to notice certain kinds of errors audibly than in text, regardless of whether you read the text silently or aloud.
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It's true, I use screen readers all the time as part of my job and I catch text errors I missed on my first pass.
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