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ClaroRead Pro supports reading and writing with a simple, easy-to-use and flexible software program that helps you to read, write, study, and increases your confidence. You can read any on-screen text out loud and improve your writing in Microsoft Word. It also lets you read aloud scanned paper books and documents with complete clarity.
A wide range of visual tools are included to color, highlight, and focus on text as it is spoken by the computer. ClaroRead improves written accuracy with enhanced spell check, homophone check, thesaurus and speaking dictionary. Words can also be spoken back as they are typed.
ClaroRead is easily customized to suit individual needs – making it the ideal companion for learning and working.
Reading
- Reads Microsoft Word, Adobe Reader, OpenOffice/LibreOffice and Internet Explorer with speech and highlighting so you can follow the text as it is read out by high-quality human-sounding speech.
- Reads text in email, web pages, 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).
- Reads English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and twenty-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 color, 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.
- Choice of high-frequency, many subject-specific, and huge prediction dictionaries.
- Phonetic prediction - type "n", see "knowledge" suggested.
- Learn new predictions as you type or train it in a particular subject.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Echo back text recognized by Dragon as it appears on your computer screen so you know it is right.
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.
Dictionary
- Speaking dictionary for any word in any program with over 300,000 English definitions.
- Thesaurus to help with comprehension.
Reading
- Change font and text to make it easier to read.
- Change screen colors to reduce contrast and make reading more comfortable.
Listening later
- Read text into an audio or video file to listen to later (on your 'phone, on the move, for study).
Scanning (OCR)
- Use industry-leading Omnipage technology to convert printed documents and image files into PDF, Word and many other formats for reading and annotation later.
- Create accessible PDF files with reading order.
- Make any text displayed on the screen read aloud, including online eBooks and presentations.
Also included with ClaroRead Pro:
ClaroIdeasEasy to use mind mapping and idea capturing tool that helps with research, planning, outlining, studying and presenting. It is easy-to-use and powerful and will help users and groups to capture their ideas, pictures, research notes, web page links, audio and video files with more freedom, flexibility and creativity.
- Creating and editing Idea/Mind Maps
- Change layout with a click - free-form, radial, tree, top-down, left-right.
- Open ClaroCapture files in ClaroIdeas to work with and organize the content you have captured.
- See a linear outline of the mind/idea map contents.
- Change the outline or the idea/mind map and both views update instantly.
- Change line thickness, color, add a label, or make a line an arrow or other connector.
- Add audio notes to each idea/node, play them back for reference and revision.
- Using your Idea/Mind Maps
- Output mind/idea maps into Microsoft Word documents or PowerPoint presentations - prepare your essay or presentation visually then switch to Word or PowerPoint to do the fine details.
Cycle through each idea with a click.
- Works well with touch and on an interactive whiteboard.
ClaroCapture
Study skill tool that can collect text, audio and images from any document or web page, grouping it as a project file. The research file can be sent to Word, PowerPoint or ClaroIdeas, our latest ideas mapping software. ClaroCapture can also extract highlighted text from Microsoft Word documents.
- Information can be captured and exported to various programs. Selected text can be captured from any computer application – web pages, PDF files, Word documents, databases – and added to the current project. Images, audio and video files can be added by dragging them into the Capture project list.
- Highlight text in Microsoft Word in different colors, then ClaroCapture will extract and group the different highlighted sections together.
- Drag images straight out of your web browser into ClaroCapture. Great for charts, presentations, data tables.
- Drag image and video and other files into ClaroCapture to create an embedded file for later reference.
- Capture screen selections straight into ClaroCapture.
- Record audio notes on each item, collect ideas and thoughts fast.
- Provide a simple structure to your project (top-level items and child items) that makes everything make sense when you export to ClaroIdeas, Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Export projects to Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint or ClaroIdeas. (Or the Clipboard for pasting into OpenOffice or Google Docs).
- Create an automatic bibliography in Word.
ScreenRuler
Reading ruler and screen color tinter. Helps anyone who has problems keeping focus while reading. Works with multiple monitors and any video card. Sits quietly in the system tray (Notification Area) out of the way while you work.
- Screen tinting
Some people find common black-on-white text hard to read, and prefer off-white colors. ScreenRuler can provide a colored overlay for the whole screen so everything is tinted and easier to read. You can choose any color you like and change color and intensity depending on the time of day, the light conditions and what you find best. - Colored reading ruler
Some people find focusing on the current line of text hard, and going from one line to the next as you read even harder. ScreenRuler can give you a strip or ruler across the screen. You can also make the screen outside of the strip darker to help you concentrate on the strip. - Underline
A colored underline that goes across the screen and follows the cursor, helping you to stay on the line you're trying to read and concentrate on.
Claro AudioNote
Simple, clear application that is easy to use and won’t get in the way of following the lecture or listening back to notes and proofreading. Record lectures straight into your handouts, make voice notes, and listen back to recordings made on popular devices.
Listen back to any recording, from one made on a dedicated recording device to one made on a 'phone. Record lectures on laptops or Windows tablets into audio files for later use or even straight into the slides in a PowerPoint presentation or at a particular point in a Word document. Use as a personal scribe or in lectures as a notetaker.
- Record Directly Into PowerPoint Presentations
As each slide is presented, record straight into that slide for later listening back – with only one click for each slide. Recordings stay in the PowerPoint so you can listen to them later without Claro AudioNote or email them to another machine or student. - Record Directly Into Word Documents
Record straight into the current Word document your notes and comments. The recordings stay in the Word document when you save them so you can get at them easily or email them to someone else. Just double-click the audio recording in Word any time to play it back. - Record Straight Into An Audio File
Audio-only Recording. You can also record straight into an audio file on your computer so you can record a lecture from your Windows tablet or laptop even if the notes aren't available in PowerPoint. You can even add bookmarks (index marks) while recording, and Claro AudioNote makes sure you know the index so you can add it to your notes and keep track. Claro AudioNote even works out what document you are looking at during the lecture, so when it saves the audio file it has a real, useful name so you can find it again.
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Pro |
Plus |
Standard |
READING |
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Reads Microsoft Word documents with highlighting |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Reads Adobe Reader PDFs with highlighting | Y |
Y |
Y |
Reads OpenOffice and LibreOffice documents with highlighting |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Reads web pages with highlighting |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Reads anything else on the PC by selecting with the mouse |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Echoes back Dragon NaturallySpeaking |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Saves text as speech to an audio file |
Y |
Y |
Y |
SCANNING / OCR |
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Convert paper documents to PDF and Word documents |
Y |
Y |
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Make inaccessible PDF files into accessible PFD files |
Y |
Y |
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Capture and read text straight off the screen |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Advanced PDF output options |
Y |
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Proof scans with custom dictionaries and characters |
Y |
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PROOFING |
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Spellcheck (including phonetic misspellings) |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Word Prediction (including phonetic prediction) |
Y |
Y |
Y |
ScreenRuler screen tinting |
Y |
Y |
Y |
ClaroCapture study skills |
Y |
Y |
Y |
ClaroIdeas mind mapping |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Claro AudioNote lecture capture |
Y |
Y |
Y |
System Requirements
- Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP2
- 1GB RAM
- 500MB hard disk space plus 150-500MB for each voice
- Microsoft Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013, or Word 2016
- Sound card supporting text-to-speech
- Scanner supporting TWAIN or WIA
Software Return Policy:
In keeping with software industry standards, we will gladly accept returns of packaged software within 30 days of purchase in an unopened package only. Software that is purchased as a download is considered opened at the time of purchase.
Software that has been opened or purchased as a download may only be replaced with identical software / media within 30 days if the originally purchased software is defective.
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Learn how ClaroRead can help improve reading, studying, composition, report writing and more. Students with or without learning disabilities will find benefits to using this software for reading out loud, document composition, fact finding and data gathering. Find out why a phonetic spell checker and homophone finder are better than your standard Microsoft Word spelling and grammar tools: Overview to using ClaroRead
Watch the EnableMart webinar: Using ClaroRead to improve reading, writing, study skills, and more.
- New feature, “Change Text Width” in Spacing menu.
- Enhances readability in Word. People find a short column width easier to read (e.g. newspapers) so Change Text Width makes the Word document into one or two narrow columns.
- New option, “Highlight none” in Highlighting.
- Allows proofing without distraction. Set it reading, listen without losing focus, and just hit Stop when you hear an error. The caret moves with reading so is placed correctly in the sentence for you to fix it.
- With Change Text Width and Highlight None you can turn Word into a scrolling text reader.
- New bundled program, Claro Voice Setup, lets you download and install any of 80 high-quality voices.
- Quickly and easily get French, German, Spanish and other voices, and different accents and genders of English.
- New bundled program, Claro AudioNote, records lectures and notes into your Windows PC
- Our easy-to-use notetaker and personal scribe program now comes with ClaroRead. Record straight into Microsoft Word or PowerPoint presentations, saving the audio straight into the file. Add bookmarks, open recordings from common hardware recorders, and send the recordings to Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
- New feature, ClaroRead Cloud, allows backups and voice and program downloads.
- Open ClaroRead Cloud from the Extras button (not Swedish version).
- Register online.
- Also get all our voices.
- You can now disable spellcheck with a registry key or end-user program, great for exams.
- Improvement: scanning can now start with a Word document (requires Office to be installed)
- Improvement: Save to PDF can save as password-protected PDFs.
- Improvement: Combine PDFs and multiple scanned pages together, and come back to a document to add more pages later.
- Improvement: Can save from Preview or Proofing, half-way through scanning, and pick it up later.
- Improvement: Next word prediction ignores minimum character length, so you get more natural sentences generated with next word prediction because you have sensible next-word suggestions, like “the” or “to”.
- Improvement: Scan from screen speaks what’s captured if speak on select is turned on.
- Copies to the clipboard too. Saves another click for users, simpler to use, and scan from screen is now so fast it works brilliantly.
- Improvement: Updated phonetic and dyslexic spelling list, homophones and pictures in spellcheck.
- Now 50,000 custom spelling corrections, disambiguating pictures for every homophone, and new homophones/confusables.
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