We’re steadily developing our new ClaroPDF Windows App: now you can choose your preferred text-to-speech voice – male, female, which language and accent. You can also decide how fast it should speak: many people like to slow down voices to take in things more slowly, or speed up voices to Read more…
An update to ClaroRead for Windows with some improvements and changes: Our Dictate button on the toolbar now works with Dragon Group as well as Dragon Professional. Being able to access the amazing power of Dragon speech recognition from the ClaroRead toolbar makes it easy to dictate straight into Word, Read more…
ClaroRead reads PDF files in Adobe Reader (and Acrobat) and that suits most people very well. However, having our own PDF reader has some advantages: ClaroCapture can capture highlights from it, and we can make it self-voicing so that it can be used in exams or on its own as Read more…
Written by Michelle McArdle, developer of ClaroRead Mac.
ClaroRead Mac 8 is out now! If you’re thinking of upgrading to macOS 11 Big Sur, then you will need to update ClaroRead Mac too!
(more…)We now have a (basic) dedicated ePub Reader! ePub is an ebook format: in plain English, that means things like Amazon Kindle, or iBooks on iPad, and services like Bookshare all use it for the electronic versions of print books. In theory you can also find .epub files, but in Read more…
Have you ever been given an assignment to write an essay but not known where to start? Starting with a title, a word count, a deadline, and maybe a reading list, you are expected to go away, and put together a clear, well-argued perspective on the issues. Perhaps you are Read more…
ClaroView 2 overlaid the whole screen with a colour, so every pixel became a little bit blue, or grey, or whatever you selected. This helps people who don’t like the start black-on-white you often get in PDFs and Word and web pages: The new ClaroView 3 offers a new additional Read more…
ClaroRead 9 is now out! This is the last of our blog posts on new features and changes. We’ve made some tweaks to how ClaroRead 9 works to make it easier for hard-working admins to deploy and use. If you are using multiple languages in ClaroRead you had to use Read more…
ClaroRead 9 for Windows is out now! This is the second of three posts about our new version. Most of our users are in education, but we have many in the workplace, and it’s hard to get away from Microsoft Outlook for your email. In ClaroRead 9 you can now read Read more…
ClaroRead 9 for Windows is out now! This is the first of three posts about our new version. Spellcheck and word prediction are super techniques for helping you get your writing just right, especially where speech recognition isn’t an option. What’s new? Spellcheck and homophone check People with dyslexia find Read more…
