MS-Word Text to Speech Super Easy

One of the best things I've ever done to improve my writing is to use the Text to Speech function built into MS-Word. I'm still using Word 2010, but this feature is also available on Word 2013 and 2016. Here is a great little YouTube tutorial by Britec09 demonstrating just how easy it is to add and use this feature to Word.

Using Text to Speech allows you to instantly hear your grammar and spelling mistakes, extra words, left over plurals, run on sentences and left over fragments. It also lets you hear if your story is flowing or floundering. Great, great stuff! Using the function for editing has saved my bacon so many times, it's not even funny. I'll edit and edit, and tweak and tweak, and be so sure that This Time my story is Perfect. When I have the simplest robot read my story aloud, I find mistake after mistake.

So, at least for crappy editors like me, Text to Speech is a Godsend. I highly recommend you try it.