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How To… Make Anything Into a Text to Speech

So today I just started college and I have a hard time reading sometimes, especially online. A lot of teachers use Microsoft Word for most of their writing and prepared stuff for school such as syllabus’s and assessments. If you’re like me then this How To… should come in handy.

Step One

Open the word document you wish to get read to you on Microsoft Word, not Google Docs. If it is a text you wish to get read to you and is not a Microsoft Word Doc, simply open and create a new Word Doc and copy and paste the text you want to listen too.

Step Two

If you are like me and on Mac simply press ‘command + A’ to select the whole document

Step Three

On Mac press ‘control + right click’ to open the menu and go down to the very bottom where it says “services”. Once the side menu opens next to “services” at the top of that menu it should say “Add to Music as Spoken Track”. Press that button.

Step Four

You will be presented with this window…

You can change the voice that you want read to you. I find that Alex or Daniel works best. You can test the voices with the ‘Play’ button.

Choose a name for the Voice to Text, preferably what ever the topic or name your article or doc is on/about.

And finally don’t touch the ‘Where’ option. I tried to change the file location and it didn’t save the file for me but when I left it on the ‘Where’ it was just located in the ‘Music’ folder in Finder.

Click ‘Continue’ when ready.

Step Five

Your Apple Music App should open after pressing ‘Continue’ and from there you can listen to your Word document as an audiobook!

Loki Episode 5 Review

Loki‘s second to last episode was surprisingly good. I’ll give credit when credit is due, this episode is really good and really well done. I haven’t been a huge fan of the series but I have been a huge fan of Loki. Especially since yesterday July 18, 2021 Marvel released its new trailer for What If…, A series where it goes through different variations of different time frames in the MCU like if Black Panther was abducted by the revengers and became Star Lord. This episode of low-key felt like an in Cannon universe of What If… as What If… isn’t really cannon. If you are a deep dive or in the MCU you would understand some of the references made in this episode. Like Yellow Jackets discarded head in the middle of a wasteland from the first Ant-man movie.

All in all of this was a good episode. It drove the story of what they are trying to attempt with Loki and the time variance authority. I personally do not like Sylvie, but in this episode she grew on me, just a little bit, just enough so she’s not annoying. Which to me is good character growth. I don’t like the idea that Loki falls in love with himself, or herself, or what ever. This series didn’t really need a romantic involvement. The idea of the series was it was recording the MCU from day one. In the first episode it shows that the infinity stones were meaningless, that the Tesseract was meaningless, that anything that happened in the MCU really was meaningless. In this episode they go to the edge of time trying to find answers and like most TV shows your left on a cliffhanger and have to wait until next week to understand and get all the information you want. I strongly believe this episode builds upon the idea of the third Ant Man and the Wasp movie which is sad to have king the conqueror as it made villain. I do not believe king will be in Loki but I do believe he will have some tied to something in the show. All in all this was a good episode, I read it seven out of 10

Loki Episode 4 Review

Today the fourth episode of marvels new limited series, Loki aired. I personally have mixed reviews about this episode. It moves the plot forward faster than most episodes but yet feels as though it is just a filler episode. You get it some nostalgic feelings in this episode, spoilers ahead, when we get to see Asgard before Ragnarok for one last time. Other than the nostalgia, which was one major selling point of episode one, when Mobius was showing a fast cut of all previous Loki encounters in the Marvel cinematic universe. Loki is playing on the idea of nostalgia but focusing on the idea of moving on from the normal. In this episode they push the idea of the power that the Time Keepers, the rulers of the sacred timeline, is all a myth. In the first episode it showed that the TVA, The Time Variance Authority, was the greatest power possibly imagined inside the Marvel cinematic universe. But this episode even downplays its own idea of power. With the idea that the TVA might just be a myth. Go watch the episode, I strongly recommend it without me spoiling it. Like the rest of Loki it is not that good of a show, but that is my own general idea of it. I feel as though marvel really rushed there Disney+ cinematic universe and that has led to the downfall of it’s TV shows.

I give this episode a 4 out of 10. I don’t think there’s going to be an episode of Loki that will score higher than a five with my tier list. Watch it for yourselves and comment down below your ranking of the episode.

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New Beast Wars ??

Announced yesterday on June 24, 2021 the new title for Transformers: Rise of The Beasts directed by Steven Caple Jr., right now known for his work on Creed 2 and The Land. It is estimated that the new Transformers movie will revolve around the old CGI cartoon, Transformers: Beast Wars. Beast Wars first aired in 1996 revolving around a new age of prehistoric life after the events of the original 1980s Transformers. The question is up in the air if the movie will follow the same lines from the original beast wars cartoon or if it will be a completely new story with completely new characters. How much detail has been released yet but fans of the original series are excited to see their childhood brought to the big screen.