- Reading
- Reads Microsoft Word with speech and highlighting so you can follow the text as it is read out by high-quality human-sounding speech.
- Reads PDF files with speech and highlighting with the included ClaroSpeak Mac App.
- Reads text in email, webpages, and any other program you want by selecting with the mouse, pointing with the mouse, or capturing from the screen.
- Read paper documents with scanning (OCR) in ClaroRead Plus
- Reads English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and twnty-four other languages with 80 different voices and accents so you can listen to a voice you like.
- Choose highlighting by word, by sentence, any colour, and lots of combinations so you can get just the right one for you.
- Word prediction
- Suggest words as you type to help with spelling and writing.
- Prediction all speaks so you can choose the word you want by hearing it.
- Learn new predictions as you type or train it in a particular subject.
- Writing
- Listen back to your text after you have written – hear mistakes you can’t spot when you read.
- Listen to each word or sentence as you type so you can hear mistakes immediately.
- Spellcheck
- Speaking spellcheck lets you select the word you want by hearing the alternatives.
- Support for homophones and easily-confused words like “there” and “their” and “they’re” including images to help you select the correct word.
- Advanced phonetic, dyslexic and problem spelling corrections like “neel” (kneel) and “necessary”.
- Check anywhere, in Mail or Safari or Chrome, not just Microsoft Word.
- Add your own confusing and problem words to help you proofread.
- Dictionary
- Speaking dictionary for any word in any program.
- Check words online for more information.
- Reading
- Change the font to something you find easier to read in prediction and Microsoft Word documents with a single click.
- Increase line spacing to stop you getting lost between lines.
- Increase space between paragraphs to help separate and understand them.
- Increase character spacing to reduce “rivers of white” and help with reading.
- Make text bigger to make it easier to read and make each line shorter.
- Select colours for text and background that are best for you.
- Listening later
- Read text into an audio file to listen to later (on your ‘phone, on the move, for study).
- Scanning (OCR) – ClaroRead Plus
- Convert paper documents, documents like Pages or Word or PDF or images, into text, PDF, Word and many other formats for reading and annotation later.
- Turn paper and PDFs into plain text for study or annotation.