Read out loud blog posts

Not sure why I didn't think of this before, but of course modern computers have text-to-speech and can read text aloud.

So I got it to read my post from yesterday - instantly found two errors (which then I had to correct) and also several poorly written sentences (which I left because life is short and it's probably better to make new blog posts better).

What made me realise this was browsing Mariner Software's writing software and finding this http://marinersoftware.com/products/narrator/ which allows setting different voices in different pieces of text. But for simple use cases the built-in stuff is enough.

Other notes and links:

Firefox has Text-to-speech add-ons.

Linux can use Festival http://www.xenocafe.com/tutorials/php/festival_text_to_speech/index.php but there are others as well.

Raspberry Pi Text to speech ... http://elinux.org/RPi_Text_to_Speech_%28Speech_Synthesis%29 ... could be interesting for Embedded speech!

Windows Text to Speech is also available: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/how-to-configure-text-to-speech-in-windows-7/83f67763-9d2b-416b-ad03-0e40ea97585b?auth=1

For Mac users, Safari and Text Edit read things aloud. Go to 'System Preferences' ->  'Dictation and Speech' to configure the voices.