ClaroRead Word Release Notes

Version 1.0.5

January 2019

Initial release – a Microsoft Word Add-in version of ClaroRead with text-to-speech playback and speak-on-select.

Supported platforms:

• Word for Windows (2016 or later) (Uses our text-to-speech voice server).
• Word for Mac (2016 or later) (Uses installed voices).
• Word for iPad (Uses installed voices).
• Word Online (Uses the Web Speech API).

Features:

• Playback controls (play and stop).
  • Play text-to-speech audio for the current sentence.
    • Automatically progress and begin the next sentence on audio end.
    • Highlight the current sentence.
    • Move caret to the beginning of the current sentence.
  • Stop audio playback.
• Voice selection.
  • Select from a list of available voices.
• Colour selection.
  • Select the current sentence highlight colour.
• Speak-on-select.
  • Enable or disable with a toggle button.
  • Select a section of text to begin text-to-speech playback.