This came into our Helpline today. Hurry if you want to take up this free offer!

ClaroSpeak is available now for iPad and iPhone

ClaroSpeak™ is the first assistive technology app from Claro Software,
available on iOS for iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. ClaroSpeak is a high
quality text-to-speech reader capable of speaking any accessible text with
a range of human high quality voices. ClaroSpeak offers the option of
visual highlighting in sync with the spoken words – and a great range of
colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading. ClaroSpeak is
available in a wide range of languages and voices, for different countries,
via the Apple App Store. ClaroSpeak is a quality app for proofreading text
through listening, helping with reading and literacy development and
creating audio files from any text.

ClaroSpeak Features

Text-to-Speech

Text in the workspace can be spoken back once typed into ClaroSpeak. Users
can check text and proofread quickly and easily. Text from a document,
email, web page or PDF can be copied into ClaroSpeak to be read back or
quickly edited.

The iPad 3 and iPhone 4S comes with built-in speech recognition, so text
can be dictated directly into ClaroSpeech and listened back to ensure it is
right.

ClaroSpeak can save any text as an audio file using the same high quality
voice so it can be emailed, put into a playlist to listen to later or
transferred to another computer.

High Quality Voices

Choose from a number of high quality Nuance Vocalizer voices. The voice can
be made to speak faster or slower as suits the user.

The voices are all part of the ClaroSpeak app, so ClaroSpeak works
perfectly whether online or not, and using it does not count against your
data allowance.

To hear audio samples of the voices go to
http://www.claro-apps.com/clarospeak/voices.html

Visual Highlighting

Text is highlighted as the document is read back. Highlighting allows users
to coordinate reading and listening. ClaroSpeak lets users pick the colour
and style of highlighting ‒ word or sentence ‒ required. Read quickly
or slowly depending on the user’s requirements. Read emails, web pages,
Word documents (doc and docx), Pages documents and PDFs all with
highlighting.

There are four highlighting modes to choose from: Word by Word
highlighting, Word Trail highlighting, Sentence highlighting or no
highlighting. The Word Trail feature makes words colour progressively as
they are spoken by ClaroSpeak.

Font and Colour

Change the font size, colour or use a more-readable font to maximise
ease-of-reading – some people find high contrast easier to read,
especially if they have a visual impairment, while some people with print
impairments like dyslexia find low contrast text better. The font size,
type and colour of the workspace can be modified easily in the settings,
making ClaroSpeak easily adaptable to different users’ needs.

Save to Audio

Convert any text into an audio file with a high quality voice. This is
quick and easy, allowing documents and web pages to be listened to on the
move. Great for proofreading on the go.

Send Text

Text created within ClaroSpeak can be emailed, sent via SMS, or copied and
pasted into a web page, like a job advert form – great to help ensure
everything is right. The Apple spell check works in ClaroSpeak too, further
helping accuracy.

Free App For Assessors

We are giving away 25 free ClaroSpeak apps to assessors. If you are an
assessor and would like to try out our app please contact us at
marketing@clarosoftware.com

Claro Software

Lancashire House, 24 Winckley Square, Preston, PR1 3JJ Tel: +44 (0) 1772
977 888 Fax: +44 (0) 870 132 7471