software to change characters speech patterns?

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Tried to find something like this online but not even sure of the search words to start with.

Is there a software that can change the structure of a sentence for you, so that characters would appear to speak differently to the original sentence you enter?

Basically when i write sentences for characters they, to me, appear to all sound the same. So some software that could change what they sound like would be great, even to just get a basic idea.

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What characters say and how they say it is really your call. Guess that is what writing is all about. Be interested to see if you come up with anything though. Cheers.

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One of the best ways I found for making characters sound different from each other was to dictate the dialogue. (I use my iPhone and rely on Siri to do the speech recgnition.) A second best method, which I recently learned about in one of the forums here, is to use the in-built text-to-speech feature of Mac OS and listen to the dialogue being spoken.

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Thanks, not found anything yet that works. Going to have to do it the hard way I guess!

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One thing you might consider is using the word frequency statistics feature under Project > Text Statistics then open the Word Frequency box. It would require you to do some housekeeping of your own but would allow you to see if the idiolect of two characters was identical. Although that option might be Mac-only at present. If it isn’t in Windows, I don’t use it so cannot check, you could copy and paste(*) your text into a concordance tool such as AntConc and do the same frequency analysis there.

However, I personally do not want a bit of software meddling with my words at all. On Mac I get annoy enough with the Apple text editor widget messing with insertions before smart quotations marks. Give me something that will alert me to over sharing of idioms and vocabulary between characters (similar rather than dissimilar idiolects) yes but not something that changes things for me.

(*) Or File > Compile the documents into a composite document and use that for analysis.

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Thanks for that including mention of AntConc, new to me and looks good.