Last night as I was typing the blog post, "The Lesser Evil is Still Evil", a creepy thing happened. I was typing it in Word, although yes, I was also connected to the Internet. Well, I had just finished typing one sentence when, to my astonishment, a voice that sounded synthesized read it back to me.
No, I don't have any voice recognition or any text-to-voice software on this computer. It's true that my finger had slipped while typing that sentence, but I can't imagine what I could have pressed that would cause this to happen.
Any ideas?
(No, I do not "hear vocies"!)
No, I don't have any voice recognition or any text-to-voice software on this computer. It's true that my finger had slipped while typing that sentence, but I can't imagine what I could have pressed that would cause this to happen.
Any ideas?
(No, I do not "hear vocies"!)
6 comments:
That would be creepy indeed! Sometimes my fingers evidently slip somehow and hit a certain combination of keys, but the worst that happens is my keyboard switches to another configuration and the letters on the screen don't correspond to the keys. I have to hit Ctrl and Shift at the same time to get it back right.
Is your computer a Mac? Most Macs have built in text-to-speech capability, so it's there even if you haven't installed any software forit, and there's likely a key combination that triggers it.
Anon., thank you very much for this excellent idea. Unfortunately, it isn't a Mac. All I can think of is, maybe I triggered one of the free online text to voice programs???
Looks like Microsoft has bully in text to speech abilities as well:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306902
Built in--Sorry. On my phone it doesn't matter whether I use the speech to text capabilities, or count on my fingers, I need to remember to proofread before I submit my comments.
Sarah, you're absolutetly right; thank you! I never knew it. It has speech recognition, too. Woo-hoo!
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