This way, you can listen to the writing and judge its effectiveness better than when reading it from a printed page. While a computer’s monotone isn’t as engaging or expressive as a human voice, it still brings the words you wrote to life. #1: It Lets You Listen to the Flow of Your Writing.
But let’s start with… Three Ways Text-to-Speech Software Can Help with Editing Courtesy: Pixabay So, how can TTS software help with your editing? What should you watch out for when trying it? And what programs can you use? You might be surprised with the last one. I should try it!” And now that I have, I plan to continue using TTS software when editing future stories. In other words, your computer “narrates” a selected portion of your manuscript while you read along either on your screen or with a printed copy. (And no one enjoys going hoarse or having a sore throat, right?)Īround that time, one of my writing friends mentioned a tool in her editing arsenal that she was grateful for: text-to-speech (TTS) software.
Yet I also saw the drawbacks: Reading each chapter out loud could be time-consuming – and it could tire out my voice. That way, I could hear the words instead of simply seeing them, and gauge whether sentences or paragraphs were too long through listening. If you’ve got any questions or feedback, just let us know via or on Twitter.When I was preparing to edit my novel last year, one technique I considered was reading each chapter out loud. Toggle options: The keyboard shortcut and inline saving options can be toggled on/off. Saving directly to folders: Once your save is confirmed, click the folder icon on the save overlay to direct the article right into one of your folders. Alongside each tweet containing a URL or a Hacker News post, you’ll now see an inline Instapaper save button. More Instapaper save buttons: Now you can “Save to Instapaper” directly from Twitter and Hacker News. Other convenient features include:Ī keyboard shortcut: A Ctrl+shift+S keyboard shortcut to save the article you’re currently viewing.Ī right-click menu option: To save the current page–or any link on the current page–we added an “Instapaper” option to the right-click menu. Like our other browser extensions, when you find an article or video you want to save, just tap or click once to save it to Instapaper. To install the new Firefox extension, open on Firefox or go to Mozilla’s Add-on page for Instapaper. Now, we’re happy to roll out the same great saving features for Firefox. We’ve been getting a lot of requests from Firefox users to build an extension to match the ones we offer for Chrome, Opera and Safari. Today we’re launching an official Instapaper extension for Firefox! Introducing the Instapaper Firefox Extension
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