Invention of the day #3299

One of the hardest aspects of writing is editing your own typos, grammos and thoughtos.

Once the first version is down you may as well wait a day or two before trying to edit the thing; there’s a sort of fridge blindness problem associated with reading one’s own freshly minted prose.

Typing on the phone doesn’t help; the swypey keyboard thingy just adds hilarious and unintended errors. I call these swypos.

I fear that people that read my blog may at times consider me a moron. I would like to tell them that it’s mostly Swype even if that is not always true.

But to the invention; a new system that converts one’s prose to sound so editing can be done, on the spot, via listening to the errors.

The technology already exists but it’s not being used explicitly for the purpose as described here.

I have a hypothesis that content funnelled into the brain via the ears goes to a different part of the grey lump as to that which is read.

And hence when your new prose is being heard it’s just like the first time. The very first time.

Editing will thus be effected to the maximum effect.

No promises, but it will be better.