{"id":7611,"date":"2018-11-13T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2018-11-13T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:38:07","slug":"proof-reading-with-text-to-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7611","title":{"rendered":"Proof Reading with Text-To-Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nVia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_wilfredh\">Wilfred Hughes<\/a> here&rsquo;s a really neat trick for those of you who write things other than code:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Life hack I don\u2019t share often enough: using text-to-speech to proofread your writing. <\/p>\n<p>Your eye will gloss over all sorts of mistakes (repeated \u201cof\u201ds, extra or missing \u201cs\u201ds, etc.). But your ear catches them all.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Simler (@KevinSimler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinSimler\/status\/1061748580988280833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nI hadn&rsquo;t thought of this but as Simler says, these are exactly the types of errors I miss when I proof a document by <i>reading<\/i> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wilfred Hughes here&rsquo;s a really neat trick for those of you who write things other than code: Life hack I don\u2019t share often enough: using text-to-speech to proofread your writing. Your eye will gloss over all sorts of mistakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37,129],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-tech","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}