Using text-to-speech to become a better blogger.

0Dennis Ørsted • 6th Nov 2008 • Productivity • mac, text to speech

Sometimes when I’m writing a block of text I tend to miss words, this is often because while I’m writing, I’m also thinking about what to write further ahead. Nothing is more annoying to me when other people forget to check their posts for missed words and other grammatical atrocities. This is why I have begun using the Text-to-Speech engine on my computer to listen to my posts after I’m done writing.

When I read my own blog post, right after it has been published, my memory of the contents of the post is still very fresh. Because of this, my mind tends to fill in the blanks, causing me to not notice the errors I have made, but if I listen to the post instead, all the small mistakes are much easier to catch.

Pro-tip: If you are the lucky owner of a Mac you can assign a hotkey to make your computer read the selected text for you.