I know how it sounds, but don't worry, I won't tell you to use Google Translate to check if you misspelled a word or something. I'll tell you about an idea I had a few weeks ago that involved Google Translate and its feature of reading the text you want to translate.
Let's start with the beginning. A few weeks ago I was writing a post for Medium, and after finishing it I had to do the most boring thing ever - spellcheck. I also had to make sure my sentences made sense and people can understand what I was trying to say, since English is not my native language.
Anyway, I decided to use Google Translate to see if I misspelled a word or something, and while I was doing that, I got an idea - what if I can use that website's feature, to listen to my entire article, and see how other people would read it, and if what I wrote made sense.
You may think "well, why don't you just read it yourself?" and it would be a very good question. Because you are the one who wrote the article, it's gonna be harder for you to see all the mistakes you made, because the brain knows what you wrote, and despite what people think, when you read a sentence you don't see every letter of each word, you just see the beginning and the end of the word and your brain automatically knows what word that is.
That's why when you read your article there's a big chance you don't see your mistakes, first because your brain does not read every single letter on each word, and second, because your brain already knows what the article says, so it will focus even less on the mistakes.
However, when you use Google Translate, you hear someone else saying the words, and it's easier for your brain to detect all the mistakes while listening to the computer voice reading the article. All you have to do is listen to that robotic voice read your post while following every single word on the text box.
Not only you'll be able to detect every word you misspelled, but you'll also be able to notice when a sentence doesn't make sense, because you're actually listening to someone say it.
I used this technique for a while now, and it not only works really well, but it's much easier to spellcheck articles and to make sure everything is okay.
I know this is not the usual type of posts I publish, but I just wanted to share with you a new way of editing your articles, and maybe help you do things better and faster next time.
I should also mention that this technique will not make your articles perfect. It all depends on how well you know English and how good you are at writing. You could use this technique and still make a few mistakes along the way, just because you're not perfect at English. But it's still better to correct all the mistakes you can than leave everything like that.