Listening to Your Manuscript

There had been some buzz on some of the writers’ sites I belong to about electronic readers such as Kindle having the capability to read manuscripts back to the writer. I don’t have a Kindle, but I do have an iPad. So I did some research and found…

Speak it! Text to Speech.

For only $1.99, I loaded the app. on my iPad, copied my manuscripts into it, and immediately had the capability to listen to my own words read back to me from four different voices:

·         Heather, the American female

·         Ryan, the American male

·         Lucy, the British female

·         Graham, the British male

From iTunes:

“Copy emails, documents, web pages, PDF files, and more; paste them into Speak it!, and have the text spoken back to you with the highest quality text to speech engine available anywhere.”

I think it is pretty exciting! Would you like to hear your own words read back to you? Do you already have this capability through an electronic reader? I’m curious to hear your experiences. Technology always manages to impress me.