You can use speech-to-text on Microsoft Word through the "Dictate" feature, which lets you write using your own voice.

THE THREE BASIC RULES FOR any speech are: Start with a laugh, put the meat in the middle, and wave the flag at the end. Most important is to have a rapport with your audience. You can do it several ...

The trip from Bayfield, Wis., to Washington, D.C., is a long journey indeed. For former Bayfield resident John P. McConnell, the passage has involved stops at Yale, Indianapolis and Texas on the way ...

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Over at The Muse, Deborah Grayson Riegel, CEO and Chief Communication Coach for Talk Support: Don’t Be Left Speechless, explains that a good speech should be simple and streamlined. And you can ...

One of the proudest moments of my life was when my childhood best friend asked me to be his best man. "I can't have one of those other knuckleheads giving the speech," he told me. "You're the writer." ...

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I used to write a mommy blog for a parenting publication. After it won an award (and with my editor’s support), I approached the publisher to explore ways to help it grow. Turns out the publisher had ...

The 2019 Conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), which ends today in Portland, OR — a town equally endowed with bookstores and breweries — capped off its opening day, ...