I wish for a Blog-2-Speech converter

A wish i'll just have to MAKE happen.

from JoeUser Forums
I realised today after a few comments from people I've known for a long time that I write and blog much better than I actually speak. I can write business letters like a lawyer, blog entries like someone who could almost have an english degree of some description and type away on MSN happily until the need for food and/or social interaction (coffee) grew too great.

I wish I could speak as freely as I do on here in real life, but I just can't. It's because of a number of reasons/causes/situations/fears/things that sometimes just don't make sense. I wont go into those just now... maybe another time.

I know exactly what I want to say in my head but somewhere between the grey matter and teeth, things get all confuzzled. The worst thing is when I want to say something and decide not to, but then to please my tongue and not tease it with non-speech, I just go and say something dorky. Strangerous indeed. I'm better than I used to be anyways... so I should take some comfort in that.

*sighs*

I'm off to write with a pen somplace....
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I feel you pain romeo5000, for I wish that I had a speech-2-blog converter with the added feature of translating inflection and body language. When I am limited to communicating in just words I often come off as aggressively confrontational, rude or whatever—problems which I don’t have in a tête-à-tête (sorry, had to use that term once in my life, it won’t ever happen again ).
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I always wondered about this as well as the other way. A lot of people enjoy blogging but those with sight impairment can not join in the fun.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Why do you think there are such things as 'love letters' and the like... Because love can turn our tongues all buttery and we can say it so much nicer (or plagiarise!) in a letter or poem. Sometimes it doesn't even need the emotion mixing, cocktail of love, to tie up our tongues (try saying that out loud really fast..) we either think of the wity reply 1.5 seconds to late for it to be useful, or what sounded so good in our heads, loses something in translation.. i.e. We eat our shoes.

Personally I think part of the problem is unconscious tension. I know when I loosen up (without the help of certain beverages) and focus on the social commentary around me, I can often think fast enough and make my tongue agile enough to be verbally amusing. by contrast in normal circumstances my mind is usually only half or three quarters focused on what is happening around me, the other portion is idly speculating on the various shades of the colour blue or something equally impractical. Trying to jump into conversation like this, is like having to jump onto a moving train with an eighty pound weight strapped behind you... it hurts (you), and the conversation just moves straight on by you.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
As an English teacher over the years, I would often get to know a student through his/her compositions and research papers than by class discussion. 
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah, tell me about it. I have the same problem, and I also tend to stammer under pressure. I'm not one of the world's greatest communicators unless you put a keyboard/pen in front of me, I'm just not that quick a thinker on my feet. And I get self conscious. My brain gets ahead of my mouth...and it's worse when I feel uncomfortable or am in a conflict situation. I think you'd be surprised at the number of people who share this malady.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
hmmmm.... sounds like soscial anxiety to me!! with a touch of introvertedness... or maybe that it just me projecting my problems onto you.?
Well anyway, nice blog post.