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   Andy Burnelli to All   
   requst for easy to implement spell check   
   06 Feb 22 07:06:18   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.usage.english   
   From: spam@nospam.com   
      
   It has to be easy or I won't do it.   
   => imbue (embue)   
      
   It's something others can benefit from if we come up with a good solution.   
   => (programmatically) programatically   
      
   I have a spelling problem.   
   => paraplegic (parapalegic)   
      
   Mostly because I spell as I "think" words sound to me.   
   => (pliers) pliars   
      
   Whenever I get red squiggled I copy & paste the word into a spell.txt file.   
   => semblance (semblence)   
      
   Which I bring up with a keyboard shortcut.   
   => (symmetric) symetric   
      
   It has to be easy or it doesn't get done!   
   => credularity & (credulity)   
      
   I used to put the wrong spelling in the spell.txt file next to the right   
   spelling, like this.   
   => eminantly eminently   
      
   But that often reinforced the wrong spelling in my visually based brain.   
   ("Is it an e or an i in discretion or is it descretion?")   
      
   At some point over the years I added parenthesis around one choice   
   => egregious (eggregious)   
      
   As most of my spelling errors are actually pronunciation errors, in that I   
   tend to spell the word as I hear the word when it's spoken to me or by me.   
   => (masquerating) masquerading   
      
   Lately I've decided to put just the correct spelling in the file.   
   => exhilarating   
      
   But then now when I check it ever few months to practice, I only see the   
   correct spelling and my brain doesn't have to think.   
   => eminantly eminently   
      
   I don't use text to speech but I know it exists.   
   It probably exists in hundreds of ways.   
      
   What's an EASY way to feed a spell.txt file to Windows speech to text where   
   the spoken words can be displayed so that I can see them and hear them?   
      
   I guess what I would like is a physical use model of running the batch   
   program which feeds spell.txt line by line to a speaking program and I have   
   to hit a key (or wait a period of time of a few seconds?) for the next word?   
      
   Small sample spell.txt file in the sig.   
   --   
   abscissa   
   methodically   
   annihilate   
   anomaly   
   appalled   
   bureaucracy   
   colloquial   
   commingled   
   concomitant   
   credulity   
   debuted   
   deficit   
   disastrous   
   discretion   
   disparage   
   duplicitous   
   duplicitous   
   echelon   
   egregious   
   eminently   
   euphemism   
   euphemistically   
   exhilarating   
   foresee   
   foreseeable   
   frivolity   
   gynecologist   
   hors d'oeuvres   
   imbue   
   immaculate   
   immiscible   
   lectern   
   lieu   
   masquerading   
   matriarchal   
   mayonnaise   
   medieval   
   paraplegic   
   phenomenal   
   phenomenally   
   pliers   
   preceded   
   programmatically   
   proletariat   
   semblance   
   shish kebab   
   symmetric   
   ubiquitous   
   vicious vs. viscous   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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