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Listen-Back: hear what your eyes skip

3 min read

You have read your own draft so many times that your eyes stop seeing it. They skim, they autocorrect, they forgive. Your ears do not. Listen-Back reads your draft aloud so the problems you have been reading past finally land.

Why editing by ear works

Read a sentence out loud and the trouble shows up on its own. A clunky line makes you stumble. A word you used three times in a paragraph starts to ring. An awkward rhythm drags. Listen-Back gives you that read for the whole draft, without you having to voice every line yourself.

The voice that reads it

A built-in voice works for free, so you can start listening right away with nothing to set up. If you want a warmer, more natural read, connect your own ElevenLabs key and pick from premium voices instead.

A draft playing back with the current line highlighted
Follow along as it reads, or close your eyes and just listen.

Tip. Once you have listened through a section, try Table Read next: it gives each character a different voice, so weak dialogue stands out even more.

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