The internet has become a handy tool for doing business today. Teachers, students, secretaries, managers, publishers and writers, this is your chance to reduce document review costs or even eliminate them all together. You won’t believe how easy it is to review your document without having to engage a professional to do it for you. I have used this method at zero cost and each time it brought my confidence levels to maximum such that I often do not feel the need of a professional reviewer, and I will tell you how you can do the same. Please don’t misinterpret what I’m saying because it remains true that there is no substitute for a professional touch to any product and/or service, thus you may eventually have to pay for review, but only on choice.

 

This tool works with the understanding that you understand better when you hear yourself talk as opposed to talking for understanding. It always work if after having completed your document you don’t read it for a day or two, then re-read with the aim of making corrections. You will definitely make remarkable improvements to your work. Reviewers are only people who give themselves time to listen (through reading) to what you have to say and suggest corrections to it. So, if you can hear what you have written, you’d definitely make corrections on your own.

 

Hearing Yourself Speak

 

Technology has provided a tool that reads text and converts it to audio. All you do is correctly punctuate your document, copy the text and paste it in the reading window and the software does the rest. It doesn’t matter the number of words you have to review. I have tried this in over 3, 000 word documents and it has never failed me even once. In a few minutes, you will have your document ready as an audio file that you can play back and listen to.

 

This software is available for free online at free-audio-editor.com. I won’t go onto the details of how this software works but will cover just the basics to get you started. I know other people need this software for different benefits as it has many, but for people like me who like typing; this is a number one tool for reviewing your work.

 

Just by the way, I recommend a tool “Article Writing Template” that I sometimes use to create articles for almost any purpose. I sometimes use it to read articles for my Masters Level course and I find it handy because while I do some work in the office, I can still listen to someone reading my study material for me. Writers will find it handy to kick start their writing career.

 

Text-to-Audio Converting Process

 

After you have downloaded the software, you surely must install it to have it work for you.

 

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  1. Open the programme and a window with options will show as show in the picture.
  2. Choose the ‘Text to speech…’ button.
  3. Make sure that ‘Stereo’ is check and then press ok.
  4. Go to ‘Synthesize Speech’ button and the system will do the rest
  5. When done, you may want to convert your file to any format such as mp3, wav. Etc. Just go to ‘save as’ and choose the format you want .. DONE!

 

The Reviewing Method

 

Have your document ready and start playing its audio. Read along as you listen to what you have written. In this way, you can easily pick typos and grammatical errors. Since this will be playing from your computer, you are free to pause, rewind or even fast forward your audio track at will.

 

It has worked for me, I know it will work for you if you take it seriously and try it out.

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