Interesting TextAloud menion - MEET BORING MARY

From Linda Ford Books:

I want you to meet Mary. She has a monotone voice and speaks at a slow, steady pace. It`s hard to listen to her for more than a few minutes at a time and yet I regularly submit to listening to her for several hours. Why, you ask? Because Mary in the voice in a computer program I have called TextAloud. (For more information see www.NextUp.com ) And one of the final steps on every manuscript is to let Mary read it to me. The purpose is not that I might enjoy the story. If I do, that`s a bonus. What I`m wanting is to hear and catch typos, repeated words, things like using ever instead of even. And it`s amazing how many little things I catch. Things that would normally be called line editing. But with Mary`s help I can correct them before the manuscript goes to the editor. It`s nice to know I`m sending a manuscript as clean as I can make it.