ClaroRead Windows

Reading

• Reads Microsoft Word, Adobe Reader, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Google Chrome 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, 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). ClaroRead Plus and Pro only.
• 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 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.
• 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 Professional – Dictation

• Control Dragon’s microphone using ClaroRead’s Dictate button, so you only need one floating toolbar on your screen.
• Echo back text automatically, as soon as Dragon recognises it, so you can check that it has been recognised correctly.
• ClaroRead Plus and Pro only (Dragon software is not included).
• Write down the text you speak using the dictation feature.

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 email or Google 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.

Visual

• Change font and text to make it easier to read.
• Change screen colours 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).

Screen capture

• Make any text displayed on the screen read aloud, including online eBooks and presentations.

Scanning (OCR)

• ClaroRead Plus and Pro only.
• 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.

Echo Letter Sounds

• Improve spelling by listening the sound of each letter rather than its name.

Pictures in Prediction

• Pictures in word prediction to help you choose the right word.

Claro Apps

ClaroRead Plus and Pro only. See this support article for information about how to unlock the apps.

• ClaroPDF
• ClaroSpeak
• Claro ScanPen

Portable USB stick

• Create a portable USB pen drive version of any ClaroRead to let you use it on any computer.

ClaroRead Plus and ClaroRead Pro (but not ClaroRead SE) include all of the following:

ScreenRuler

Reading ruler and screen colour tinter. Helps anyone who has problems keeping focus while reading.

ClaroCapture

Study tool. Capture images and text from web pages and documents to help write essays and organise references.

ClaroView

Screen colour overlay tool. Helps dyslexic students focus on the screen and read.

ClaroIdeas

Easy-to-use mind mapping and idea capturing tool.

Claro Voice Setup

Download and install any of 80 voices in 30 languages.

Speaking Calculator

Speaking calculator echoes back numbers and results.

(Pro and Plus) iPhone / iPad Apps

ClaroRead Plus/Pro includes the ability to unlock the pro features in our iOS apps (ClaroSpeak,ClaroPDF and Claro ScanPen).

Claro AudioNote

Record lectures straight into your handouts, make voice notes, and listen back to recordings made on popular devices.

Batch Audio Converter

Convert entire folders of documents into audio files.

Save to Video

Convert text documents into video files.

 WordBanks

Create on-screen vocabularies to help you learn and use new words.

 Auto Converter 

Auto Converter takes any document you drop into a special folder and OCRs or scans it automatically to create accessible versions without you needing to do anything else.

 ClaroRead Word 

ClaroRead for Word uses the latest Google Docs technologies to bring our world-class text-to-speech, spellchecking, prediction and usability tools.

 Claro Writing Helper

Claro Writing Helper helps you organise your essays.

Try it!

You can download 15-day trial of ClaroRead software.

Buy it!

Buy an individual licence key right now online:

• ClaroRead SE: UK Edition | ClaroRead SE: USA Edition
• ClaroRead Plus: UK Edition | ClaroRead Plus: USA Edition
• ClaroRead Pro: UK Edition | ClaroRead Pro: USA Edition

Or subscribe to our monthly subscription, cancel any time, but get all our software and Apps on every platform: ClaroRead 365.

Or for site licences and enterprise offerings check out Pricing and Site Licences.

Quickstart Guide

Quick one-page printable reference for using ClaroRead.

Pricelist

Complete pricelist including volume discounts.

User Guide | User Guide

Complete user manual.

Texthelp features in ClaroRead

This is a short guide to the roughly equivalent functions.

Release notes

What’s new in the latest version of ClaroRead.

Data Sheet

Description of features.

ClaroRead Windows complete feature list

A comprehensive listing of features in ClaroRead V7.2.

Help Videos

Demonstration and training videos.

ClaroRead in exams

Using ClaroRead in examinations, including disabling spellcheck where needed.

ClaroRead Windows Network Installation Guide

Detailed guide to installing ClaroRead on Windows networks.

Get more voices

How to get more text-to-speech voices.

• Windows 10, Windows 8.1
• 1GB RAM
• 500MB hard disk space plus 150-500MB for each voice.
• Microsoft Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016, or Word 2019
• Sound card supporting text-to-speech.
• Scanner supporting TWAIN or WIA (Plus and Pro).