How to Use Text-to-Speech Software: Real User Insights from Twitter

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Hello, thank you for always using Ondoku.

Since we began releasing the Ondoku service, I have been very surprised by the response, which has been greater than expected.

Furthermore, it is being used in a much wider variety of ways than I had imagined.

I am truly happy.

How on earth are you using Ondoku?

This time, let's look at examples of how people are using text-to-speech software on Twitter.

It might give you hints on how to use text-to-speech software even more conveniently.

Voices of people using text-to-speech software found on Twitter

As preparation for presentations

I'm not good at impromptu presentations, so I write them out in text and read them aloud with a text-to-speech tool. At that time, I measure it with a timer and revise the content according to the presentation time. It's a time-consuming method, but I get peace of mind and data.

Data can be used for the next brush-up.

— Dai Hijikata (@hijikatadai) June 3, 2020

Preparing for a presentation alone is quite difficult. For Ondoku as well, it was an eye-opener: "So there was a method like this!"

As a YouTuber

The overwhelming difference
I've felt since starting YouTube.

・Title
・Thumbnail
・Video editing
・Material gathering

This feeling I felt
when I started my blog...

For the blog,
I bought a paid WP theme.

For YouTube,
I bought paid automatic reading software.

Spend money on what is necessary.

Purchase button = determination becomes stronger.

— Luca@Urban Legend Goddess❤️【Blogger×YouTuber】 (@luca_toshiden) January 17, 2020

There are a certain number of people who use text-to-speech software when starting YouTube. It's very convenient!

Example of use for proofreading

Apparently, there are a certain number of cases where "rereading written text is painful."

If there are writers of that type, I want them to try the text-to-speech function.

・It can be read with a small amount of energy
・You notice the excessive use of particles and conjunctions

Only good things. Since I started using text-to-speech, the burden of checking text has decreased.

— Sho Fujihara｜Kobe Writer (CEO) (@fujihara_sho) February 13, 2020

For people who find it painful to re-read their own writing, text-to-speech software does a wonderful job.

After all, it reads it for you.

Also, by having someone else read it instead of yourself, the fact that you can notice small mistakes and expressions that you couldn't notice on your own is also attractive.

If you want to eliminate typos and omissions as much as possible without a proofreader, using text-to-speech software will significantly reduce them.
However, if you are writing R-18 dōjinshi, all the moaning scenes will be read aloud, and you will have to fight incredible embarrassment...

— Amasawa Ringo (@amasawaringo) May 28, 2020

Asking a proofreader... is difficult unless it is a job of a certain scale.

Also, if it's just typos and omissions, you can notice them surprisingly well by having text-to-speech software read them, even without professional proofreading.

The other day, I tried using text-to-speech for the first time for work.
It was very good to be able to find one missing character.

While listening to the reading, looking at the displayed characters
becomes a double check, which makes it easy to understand.

— Torikai (@ChitoseJaw) May 28, 2020

Silently reading the text while having it read aloud is a very effective way to use it.

By being able to use two of the five senses, "hearing" and "seeing," humans can check more efficiently.

Using the two five senses of "hearing" and "seeing" is also a recommended method for studying.

Yes. I sent it. The 100th All Yomimono Newcomer Award. Finished with 94 pages, the synopsis was exactly 200 characters and was OK on the first try. I checked with text-to-speech for the first time this time, and it's good. I found 3 typos in 30,000 characters. It's hard because it takes time, though.

— Okachi Mimika (@mimimimikaz) June 2, 2020

I'm about to cry because text-to-speech is so convenient when lecture materials are full of text and hard to read, or when proofreading reports.

— Pisumaga (@an_voicer__) May 18, 2020

Silently reading 30,000 characters is a very grueling task.

Also, if it's text you wrote yourself, the assumption that "I wrote it this way" is added, making it even harder to notice mistakes.

By using text-to-speech software, you can listen objectively, making it easier to find mistakes.

Opinions make software better

There were more opinions than I thought!

At Ondoku, we are repeating small updates every day so that you can use it more easily.

If you have an opinion that "it would be better to do it this way" or "I want you to do this," please let us know.

It may be surprising, but raising your voice is a very important thing.

I check emails more than you think, and I am sincere with every single opinion.

Currently, the one we receive the most is the opinion "I want it to be turned into an app."

We are working hard to fulfill the hope for it to be turned into an app.

However, turning it into an app seems like it will take a little more time.

Making an app is quite difficult!

Since we use different programming languages than before, we have to relearn, purchase development APIs, and once the app is finished, we have to have it reviewed before it can be listed on the Apple Store or Google Play Store.

A lot of effort is required to pass that review.

Since there are many steps, it may take a little more time to turn it into an app, but we are doing our best so that we can realize it someday, so please give us a little more time.

Please continue to visit the Ondoku site.

I look forward to seeing you again.