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Talk instead of type

Prefer to go the other way , talking out loud to your computer instead of typing ? You can do that too , thanks to the text-tospeech capability that comes with every computer . This allows you to write by using your voice .
On Windows , you can find this in Windows Settings > Ease of Access > Speech .
Enable the feature at any time by pressing the Windows key and H .
Mac users can enable a keyboard shortcut for dictation in System Preferences > Keyboard > Dictation .
Both the Windows and Mac versions are responsive to words , but learning to use punctuation takes a little experimentation .
I personally don ’ t use this feature for my actual writing , but it is occasionally great for things like brainstorming - I can dump the contents of my brain into a document by rambling , then sort it out later .

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