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Just spent an hour faffing about with the text-to-speech thing built into macOS, and yes, I can conclusively say that it does allow me to more easily and quickly spot spelling and prose style failings (run on sentences are very noticable, as are the frequent reusing of words in a sentence or paragraph).
It does not like glaswegian (you have to really get phonetic with some of it, and even then it cannae pronounce "ach" prop'ly, no matter what you do *tsk*), but can handle Awwstrawwlian and cheeky-cockney dialects reasonably fine.
More importantly, I started fiddling with the text-to-speech as procrastination from actually writing anything, five minutes later I've written about a hundred words worth of edits and reformatted large swathes of the text. Half an hour later I've added 613 words to the things length.
The only trouble is that none of the voices quite manage to emulate GlaDoS :-(
It does not like glaswegian (you have to really get phonetic with some of it, and even then it cannae pronounce "ach" prop'ly, no matter what you do *tsk*), but can handle Awwstrawwlian and cheeky-cockney dialects reasonably fine.
More importantly, I started fiddling with the text-to-speech as procrastination from actually writing anything, five minutes later I've written about a hundred words worth of edits and reformatted large swathes of the text. Half an hour later I've added 613 words to the things length.
The only trouble is that none of the voices quite manage to emulate GlaDoS :-(
