Is TTS actually useful for editing writing? I haven't tried TTS on my mac in years but my experience with TTS is it's very utilitarian. It will certainly speak the words you input but the best use of reading your own writing aloud is to get a feel for how the text sounds in a natural human speaking voice. Because if it sounds good in a speaking voice, it will sound good and feel correctly paced and worded to a reader.

TTS doesn't interpret pacing and anticipate the way a thoughtful human reader would read text aloud. Which defeats much of the purpose of reading your own text aloud. But TTS should help you find grammar mistakes, typos and missing words.

Windows also has TTS built-in; see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hear-text-read-a....

Else, you can (I guess?) copy / paste it into Google Translate as well.

For anyone not using Mac's, there's a few text-to-speech offerings online if you are ok with the privacy implications of sending that data to a 3rd party. Use it a lot for public conversational threads and mailing lists that I am expected to read but have low signal to noise ratios.

I'm not sure about what offline alternatives exist.

I saw someone claim that changing the font to Comic Sans made her see the text freshly and catch many problems.

Agree, by far the most praised addition to Typely (https://editor.typely.com)