Make Your Mac Speak with a Human Sounding Voice

ClaroRead speaks back text as it is typed, allowing a student to check and proof-read their work quickly and easily. Text can be spoken at any point by highlighting individual sections of text and pressing Play – great for proofreading.

• Close integration with Microsoft Word, Pages and Adobe Reader means at any point in a document, web page or PDF can be clicked and played.
• Pronunciation Dictionary enables the way words are pronounced to be modified if required

Visual Highlighting

Visual highlighting works in Microsoft Word and Pages. The Word Trail feature makes words colour progressively as they are spoken by ClaroRead.

• Any colour can be chosen to highlight the text.
• Effective word by word highlighting with minimal visual disruption.

Microsoft Word

Focus Sentence feature greys or dims out sentences, not being spoken.

Integration With Microsoft Word, Apple Pages and Safari

ClaroRead provides a single tool bar for use in Microsoft Word, Pages and Safari that combines a Homophone and dictionary checker, font and spacing commands, a thesaurus, spell checker and a save to audio or video function. All have clear graphic icons for ease of recognition.

Pages

• Supports speech in Pages.
• Highlighting by word, word trail, sentence or paragraph.
• Supports homophones and spacing features.

Safari

• Text can be selected and spoken by ClaroRead.

Make Using Word Easier on the Eyes

When working in Microsoft Word or Pages, ClaroRead’s Font button allows you to modify the font size, type, and colour of the whole document very easily.

With the Font button you can:

• Increase or decrease the font size
• Change the font to one of 3 popular fonts with one click
• Change the colour and highlight colour of the text of a whole document easily

Quickly Adjust Spacing

Text character, line and paragraph spacing using Microsoft Word and Pages requires some detailed knowledge. ClaroRead makes it simple to space out text when you want. Pressing the Spacing Button when working in Word will help you:

• Expand character spacing
• Change line spacing
• Change the number of points (spaces) after the end of each paragraph.

Homophones and Tricky Words Support

Homophones are words that are pronounced alike even if they differ in spelling or meaning, such as “pair” and “pear”. The ClaroRead Homophone feature:

• Mark in colour all the homophones and confusable words in a document. Using the Check tab in the Settings menu, additional tricky and confusable words can be added.
• The Check Feature will list alternative words that sound the same, along with the meaning of each word.
• Mark homophones in colour as words are typed.
• Over two thousand pictures are included in ClaroRead, helping users to select the correct homophone or choice of wording.

Spell Check

Spell check any text in any application, whether a web page, word document or PDF.

ClaroRead provides a single Check button that combines a homophone dictionary, thesaurus, reference dictionary and spell checker, making the checking of the text and documents easier and more comprehensive.

• Spell check individual words or the whole of the document at any point.
• The Check Window is fully speech enabled.
• Clicking the Homophones button will show all the homophones in the text. If the word has alternative words with the same or similar meaning, the Meaning Check box will appear.
• Over 2000 picture icons help with word meanings.

Word Check

• Dictionary Lookup button gives direct access to the Mac’s dictionary.
• The Word Check window will show extra definitions, context for the current spelling and an internet search link.
• Any corrections made in the spell check window are remembered and can be reviewed later.
• Information can be used to build a personal correction list.

Word Prediction

ClaroRead contains a word prediction feature, which can be useful for certain computer users. ClaroRead uses a base prediction dictionary consisting of the most frequently used words in the English language. The dictionary learns as you type, and rejects words that don’t pass the automatic spell-check.

• Word Prediction list automatically appears by cursor during typing.
• Prediction Window can be docked anywhere on the screen to use as a reference.
• Creation of multiple Prediction Dictionaries. Ideal for creating subject and curriculum specific dictionaries.
• Ability to rename and delete prediction dictionaries.
• Users are able to turn off spell check when adding words.
• Learning words as you type and adding to the prediction dictionary

Save To Audio

It is possible to convert any text into an audio file with a high quality voice. These files can then be uploaded to a music player such as an iPhone, iPod Touch and Nano, Nokia, Android and Walkman phones. The files can also be listened back to using Media Player Software such as iTunes. It is quick and easy to do, allowing documents and web pages to be taken on the move.

• Save selected text as audio files to iTunes.
• Files can be named and indexed.
• Audio files can be uploaded to iPod or iPhone.

ClaroRead Extras

ClaroRead includes a range of applications and utilities to enrich the toolkit available. These features can be accessed at any time if required for a particular task or assignment.

• ScreenRuler – reading ruler. Helps anyone who has problems keeping focus while reading.
• ClaroView – screen colour overlay tool. Helps dyslexic students focus on the screen and read.
• ClaroCapture – study tool. Capture text from web pages and documents to help write essays and organise references.
• Speaking Calculator – echoes back figures when the return key is pressed.
• Accessible PDF – opens PDF documents in a format that may be easier to read than the original PDF.

In addition to all the ClaroRead Standard features above, ClaroRead Plus includes powerful and easy to use optical character recognition in Paper Scanning and PDF Scanning.

Scan Paper and Convert PDF Files

With ClaroRead Plus the powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology means that any paper document or PDF file becomes accessible. Through Readiris Pro 12, textbooks, photocopies and handouts are easily converted into Microsoft Word documents, Pages documents or accessible PDF files. The text can be spoken out loud by ClaroRead or edited. PDF files can also be unlocked and edited.

• Readiris Pro 12, the highest quality Optical Character Recognition software is included. Ideal for scanning or converting books, articles and other content to become accessible, readable and editable.
• Faster accurate scanning
• Add, delete and re-order scanned areas, alter page orientation and other settings
• Output document can be saved in a variety of formats, including an accessible PDF.

This feature works with all TWAIN or WIA compatible scanners.

Minimum System Requirements

• Apple Mac with an Intel processor
  
  • Operating System: Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion)
    
  • Required disk space
    
    • 250 MB for ClaroRead, ClaroCapture, ClaroView and ScreenRuler
    • 200 MB – 650 MB per high quality voice
    • 180 MB for Readiris Pro (ClaroRead Plus only)
    
    
  • DVD-ROM drive for installation
    
  • Optional and recommended software: Microsoft Word 2011, 2008 or 2004 for Mac; Pages ’09 (V4)

View/Download

• ClaroRead V5 for Mac Online Manual
  
• ClaroRead V5 for Mac User Guide (2.1 MB)
  
• ClaroRead Plus UK for Mac Trial version
  

Online Training and Webinars

Free Online Training by Claro Software

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School, college and university licences are available for this product

These licences enable a school, TAFE college or university to use/install the software on an unrestricted number of computers within the college/university grounds.