Proofread Your Own Writing by Ear — a Yomite Workflow
Catch typos and awkward rhythm that silent re-reading misses: load your manuscript into Yomite and proofread by ear, with drafts staying on your device.
To proofread your writing by ear, import your draft (a text file, EPUB or PDF) into Yomite and let it read the text aloud. Listen through at a higher speed to catch the overall rhythm, slow down for paragraphs that snag, note them, and fix your original file. Speech synthesis runs on your device, so unpublished drafts are fine to use.
Related use case: Content creators
No matter how many times you re-read your own draft silently, typos survive. Awkward sentence breaks slip past you too. As the writer, you read what you meant to write, not necessarily what’s actually on the page.
Hearing it out loud exposes that blind spot. Here’s a concrete workflow for loading your own novel, article, or draft into Yomite and proofreading it by ear.
Step 1 — How do I get my draft in?
Bring your in-progress text file, EPUB, or PDF into Yomite. No special formatting needed — even a rough draft mixing narration and dialogue works fine as-is.
Step 2 — How should I listen to catch problems?
Assigning a different voice to dialogue versus narration (the experimental per-character voices) makes point-of-view shifts and conversational pacing much easier to catch by ear. Run through the whole thing at higher speed to feel the overall rhythm, then drop back to normal speed for paragraphs that caught your attention.
If you miss a line, tap that sentence to hear it again, so you can check details without losing your place.
Step 3 — What about invented names and terms?
Original work comes with original character names and invented vocabulary. Yomite has a per-book pronunciation dictionary — register a term’s correct reading once, and it’s applied every time that term appears. The free tier ships with a built-in dictionary of 5,000+ common misreadings (read-only); adding your own custom entries requires the advanced pronunciation dictionary in Premium (monthly, yearly, or lifetime). Full walkthrough here: fixing Japanese TTS misreadings.
Step 4 — Where do I make the fixes?
Note what caught your ear, then go edit your original file directly. Yomite is a listening tool, not an editor — and that division actually helps, keeping “listening” and “fixing” as separate passes.
Is it safe for unpublished drafts?
Yomite’s speech synthesis runs entirely on-device. Text you load in never passes through our servers. That matters if you’re working with a draft nobody’s seen yet, or anything you’d rather keep private.
Can I publish the audio?
Yomite is built as a reading and listening tool — it isn’t intended for publishing generated audio externally (video, podcasts, etc.). If you do publish it, our Terms (Section 7) require crediting “Yomite (yomite.app)” at minimum. Impersonation, harassment, and other prohibited uses in the Terms still apply.
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