Guest posts from RIPS-SIS members are encouraged please contact the blog editor. All opinions expressed in the posts herein are those of the individual author and do not represent the opinions of RIPS-SIS or AALL. The RIPS Law Librarian Blog is published by the Research, Instruction, and Patron Services Special Interest Section (RIPS-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries. If you struggle to get started writing or are an epic procrastinator like me, see my previous blog post on using dictation to speed the writing process. I don’t know if this would be helpful for all bad proofreaders, but it does make my work life, and probably Leah’s, a little bit easier. If these instructions do not work for you, just Google something about “Microsoft Word,” “speak to text,” and your Word version name. In a Word document, you just highlight the desired text and click the icon to commence the robotic melodiousness of your own words. Voila! The Speak icon appears on the Quick Access Toolbar. Click Add to add S peak to the right side of the screenĬlick here to see a video I made of the above instructions.Under the Choose Commands From dropdown menu, select All Commands.How to install this wonder on Microsoft Word!? Currently I have Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016, but the steps were the same for my last version. It doesn’t make me a great writer (obvs!), but it makes me a better one who can finish proofreading about three or four times faster. With someone (something) else reading, I can easily detect my skipped words, awkward phrasing, excessive wordiness, and general unintelligibility. I don’t know if this is true for everyone, but when I proofread what I wrote, I proofread what I think I wrote rather than the words on the page. Now I only ask for Leah’s proofreading help on rare and special occasions! By listening to the pleasing robotic voice of Microsoft Word speaking my words back to me, I instantly went from a crazy bad proofreader to a completely adequate one. Then, several years ago, for reasons lost the time, I added the Speak command to my Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft Word. Erstelle lustige Unterhaltungen zwischen verschiedenen Robotern, speichere oder schicke die Gespräche an deine Freunde. Maybe a person whose blog post was two weeks late shouldn’t be writing a post about workplace productivity! But then again, perhaps without my productivity breakthrough, I never would’ve signed up to write blog posts in the first place.Īs my colleague Leah Sandwell-Weiss can attest, for the first ten years we worked together, I constantly pestered her to proofread stuff for me.
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