ClaroRead - Quick Start Guide
ClaroRead is a simple screen reader, capable of speaking highlighted text quickly and easily.
Features at a glance
Text-to-speech: Read what is typed including individual words, passages, or whole documents aloud with easy-to-follow dual colour highlighting
Dictation: When paired with Dragon Professional (not included)
Spellchecker: Speaking spell checker lets students select the word you want by hearing the alternatives
Dictionary: Speaking dictionary for any word in any program with over 300,000 English definitions
Listening later: Read text into an audio or video file to listen to later
Screen capture: Make any text displayed on the screen read aloud
Scanning (OCR): Convert printed documents and image files into PDF, Word and many other formats for reading and annotation later.
Word prediction: Suggests words as students type to help with spelling and writing
Starting ClaroRead
- StepsActions
- Click the Start menu in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.
- Click “All Programs.”
- Click “Accessible Technology.”
- Click “ClaroRead.”
(Pressing <CTRL> + <ALT> + <C> will also launch ClaroRead.
Using ClaroRead
- StepsActions
- Highlight the text you want voiced. ClaroRead will begin reading aloud automatically.
- Click ClaroRead’s “Start” icon or press <F7> to prompt reading manually.
To adjust speech output, text highlighting and other preferences, click on the “Settings” icon on the ClaroRead bar. Click “OK” to save your changes.
Essential Hotkeys
Quitting ClaroRead
Do any of the following:
- Press <Alt> + <F4> when ClaroRead is the active application.
- Click the X in the upper-right hand corner of the ClaroRead menu.
- Click the “File” menu at the top of the ClaroRead window and select “Exit.”
Help
For help and tutorials, do any of the following:
Video Guides
&amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;