Note: I’m not 100% certain if this works in previous versions of OSX, but it definitely works in Leopard. It can be hard to catch typos in your own writing. Your eyes tend to glaze over from looking your own text after awhile, so it can be helpful to have another set of eyes.
Having said that – In the absence of a proofreader, having your text read to you is really helpful for catching things. Here’s how to set it up, go into system preferences & then the speech / text to speech area. Create a hotkey (i used CTRL+Shift+S) and you can then simply highlight text in any application and have it read to you using your hotkey.
