They say when you are making sure that you are happy with what you have written you should read it out loud to make sure it sounds right. Personally I found this difficult. Sometimes I read out what I thought I had written, and not what was in front of me. I also don’t have a good grasp of pausing for commas and other punctuation.
Knowing that was going to be a problem I looked around for a natural text to speech tool. I played with a couple by I was very impressed with Speechify.
I initially started with the desktop tool that could read out any highlighted text. While this worked, I found that there wasn’t any pauses between paragraphs. I’m guessing it just created one long string of text, and sent it back to the servers for transcoding.
I think move to the web app. This seemed to work a lot better in terms of commas, full stops, and paragraphs.
I’m not rich, so I didn’t subscribe to the premium version. I didn’t need Snoop Dog, or another hundred voices, just the one. The default voices work brilliantly. It’s like listening to an audio version of you book.
It is amazing how much you can pick up that is wrong with your manuscript just by listening too it. Things that grammar spelling tools failed to do.
I would recommended find a text to speech tool that works for you. They help!
