With the launch of ClaroRead v5, educators and students alike are inquiring about the newest features. Read on for additional information or see first hand by downloading a FREE 15 day trial.

Visual highlighting

The new focus sentence feature dims out sentences in Word not being spoken by ClaroRead. This is helpful for focussing the eye on the text, and also tracking the position in a document. The word trail feature makes words colour progressively as they are spoken by ClaroRead. This allows effective word by word highlighting, with minimal visual disruption. Any color can be chosen to highlight the text.

Research and capture information

The new ClaroCapture program included with all versions of ClaroRead V5 lets you collect text from any document and web page, grouping it as a project file. The research file can be sent to Word or Power Point. It can also extract highlighted text from Microsoft Word documents. A great study skills tool.

Scanning paper and converting PDF files

ClaroRead Plus V5 now uses the updated Omnipage 16 engine, which gives you faster and more powerful scanning, including a rich new Preview function. The Preview function lets you pick scan order, size, orientation and other settings. The highest quality optical character recognition is now included in ClaroRead Plus and Premium, making it ideal for scanning or converting books, articles and other content to become accessible, readable and editable.

Word checking

Word Check now gives extra definitions, context for the current spelling, and a Google search link within the improved Word Check window. Any corrections you make in the ClaroRead spellcheck window are remembered, and you can review your own spelling corrections later. You can use this information to build your personal correction list and add your corrections directly to Word’s Autocorrect in bulk from the ClaroRead Advanced Settings Editor.

New voices

Claro has always aimed to offer the highest quality voices for inclusion with ClaroRead. Two new voices have been introduced for ClaroRead Plus V5, a Scottish female Heather and another English male William. Links to the samples of the new voices are below:

http://www.clarodownloads.com/audio/ClaroHeather.mp3

http://www.clarodownloads.com/audio/ClaroWilliam.mp3

Readable font

The Tiresias family of fonts have been designed for optimum accessibility and usability. Tiresias PC font is now installed by ClaroRead V5 for use in all your Windows applications. Tiresias was developed by Dr John Gill currently at RNIB Scientific Research Unit.

ClaroRead USB and ClaroRead Premium Bundle

ClaroRead Standard on a USB pen drive has been popular since release. This is now available as V5, and also includes ScreenRuler, Claroview and Claro Capture on the USB stick. We have reviewed the pricing of the ClaroRead Premium bundle and reduced it to $210.00. The ClaroRead Premium (ClaroRead PLUS CD and ClaroRead Standard USB pen drive) bundle no longer includes our MindFull concept mapping tool (still available separately) but does include the new USB Exporter function for synchronising the settings of ClaroRead PLUS on the PC with the USB stick (or vice versa).

For additional information, visit us online at http://www.claroread.com/ or download the informational specification sheet here.