[6:30 pm: Trying to declutter my room without ruining the gritty vibe.]

A user should be able to listen to sections of text in the text field using text-to-speech (TTS) technology. The idea is to always have an inferential chain in working memory so they can elaborate on what's written.

It's easy enough to dictate ideas on-the-go, but crafting production-ready text would speed up writing processes multifold. People who have lots of time to dictate during repetitive or semi-automatic tasks might find butt-in-chair time scarce. For them, being able to review article structures and edit them until they're publish-worthy would be an immense time-saver.

The Value Skew for Busy SaaS Founders

If you're like me, you discover and develop most of your ideas while writing, not beforehand. Just as you find out what the next line of code should be while looking at the lines you've written so far, when crafting a blog post, you stumble upon fruitful ideas you wouldn't have thought about if you hadn't read what you've written.

To uncover those ideas and find the best ways to organize and explain them, you need to review, rethink, and rewrite your Daily Entry. This TTS feature would help with that.

Implementation

As mentioned before, we could have a text-to-speech button or command that would play back specified portions of the written text. Ideally, the plugin we use would also have a Speech-to-Text ability so the user can dictate their Daily Entry and speak commands like "read the last third".

Options

The Text to Speech & Speech Recognition plugin might work. One attractive feature: "NEW: Added Speech to Text / speech recognition, the other part of the Web Speech API, so you can talk back to your app and retrieve a transcript of the speech. Please note that this API is experimental, and is only supported by a very limited number of browsers. See: https://caniuse.com/#search=speech%20recognition"

The Google Cloud - Text to Speech plugin has a selection of decent-sounding voices. The more natural a voice sounds, the easier it will be to imagine that someone else wrote your Daily Entry, which could help you scrutinize it more effectively.

The Text-to-Speech (TTS) plugin doesn't have a natural sounding voice and won't work on Internet Explorer or Opera for Android. It could be an option if others don't work.

The Simple Text to Speech plugin seems simple and merits another look if the fancier ones don't work.

The Responsive Voice Text to Speech plugin requires signing up with ResponsiveVoice, which is $39/month for commercial use.

The Voice Recognition with Actions Plugin for Bubble plugin would be helpful for giving commands like "read the last half".

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