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[Quillwitch]

Hello everyone, happy writing.

I just wanted to stop by and leave some links here, if I may. These are some tools I´ve been using that have helped me immensely with my editing process. I´ve downloaded the free versions onto my computer and they´ve been very, very helpful. One is a grammar checker and the other is a text to voice program that reads your texts to you. Both are great for catching all sorts of mistakes, but I especially love the text to voice because it helps me with the rhythm and the flow of my words. Hope it helps you too.
Grammar Check, Spell Check & Proofreading – Ginger
Text to speech software with Naturally Sounding Voices -- Free Download

Oh, and I also visit this web site on a daily basis: synonyms and antonyms of words
Enjoy!

 

[KG Christopher]

@Sea-shore also told me about 'grammarly' which is an extension to the chrome browser. I use google docs for my writing, and grammarly is quite a useful add on.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Should be interesting, thanks

 

[Geoff]

Interesting, I shall give them a go! Thanks.

 

[Patricia D]

Hello everyone, happy writing.

I just wanted to stop by and leave some links here, if I may. These are some tools I´ve been using that have helped me immensely with my editing process. I´ve downloaded the free versions onto my computer and they´ve been very, very helpful. One is a grammar checker and the other is a text to voice program that reads your texts to you. Both are great for catching all sorts of mistakes, but I especially love the text to voice because it helps me with the rhythm and the flow of my words. Hope it helps you too.
Grammar Check, Spell Check & Proofreading – Ginger
Text to speech software with Naturally Sounding Voices -- Free Download

Oh, and I also visit this web site on a daily basis: synonyms and antonyms of words
Enjoy!

Thank you. I just downloaded the text to speech program. It's so much easier to find bad prose when you hear it spoken vs. read what you've written.

 

[Quillwitch]

Interesting, I shall give them a go! Thanks.

Let me know if they were helpful.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

I've tried it briefly so far, but it reads text that is not speech, still trying to figure out how to stop that

 

[Quillwitch]

you mean like dash, dash, comma? No, I haven´t been able to stop it either.

 

[Carol Rose]

These are all very useful. Thanks for posting!

 

[Patricia D]

If anyone figures out how to prevent it from reading punctuation, please share.

 

[AgentPete]

Hello @Quillwitch,

We are changing the status of this ticket to closed as we have not heard back from you in 7 days.