http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/08/dialogue-verifier/ Reading and writing in the heart of Virginia Thu, 17 May 2012 12:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/08/dialogue-verifier/#comment-626 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:15:58 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/dialogue-verifier/#comment-626 [...] Dialogue verifier [...]

]]> http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/08/dialogue-verifier/#comment-259 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:02:27 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/dialogue-verifier/#comment-259 I had no idea writing software had become so sophisticated! I’ve been fiddling around with Microsoft’s built-in speech recognition program. I got the idea after reading in the NYT that Richard Powers composes his novels using speech recognition. So far it’s more trouble than it’s worth to keep having to back up and correct mistakes, but it’s fun to fool around with and something different to try when I’m stuck.

]]> http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/08/dialogue-verifier/#comment-258 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:48:25 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/dialogue-verifier/#comment-258 I heard about a text-to-speech program last year and bought it, not just for dialogue but to hear whole stories read to me (a variation of the advice to read one’s work aloud). I don’t use it all the time, but it’s amusing when I do. Final Draft, the screenwriting software, also includes the feature and there you can assign different voices to different characters so you can hear them speak to each other. That’s also a good tool.

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