ClaroSpeak Plus7.7.11 - App Store

ClaroSpeak is a reading and writing app with high-quality text-to-speech, formatting controls, a wide range of fonts and styles and cloud storage integration.
ClaroSpeak Plus also includes our "Capture Text from Photo" feature with high quality Optical Character Recognition (powered by ABBYY).

ClaroSpeak provides visual highlighting in-sync with spoken words, a great range of color and font settings to allow for optimum reading, and word prediction to help with writing. ClaroSpeak is a quality app for proofreading text through listening, helping with reading and literacy development, and creating audio files from any text.

PRODUCT FEATURES

. Text-to-Speech
- Type into ClaroSpeak and have the text read back to you. You can check text and proofread it quickly and easily.
- You can import documents into ClaroSpeak from apps such as Mail, or import directly from Dropbox or Google Drive using ClaroSpeak's integration. ClaroSpeak can open a range of document formats including Word doc, PDF and epub.
- Text from any app can be copied and pasted into ClaroSpeak ready to be read back.
- Apple's speech recognition can be used to dictate text directly into ClaroSpeak, and can be listened back to ensure it is right.
- The Apple spell check works in ClaroSpeak too, further helping accuracy.
- You can save the text as an audio file using the same high-quality voice.

. High-Quality Voices
4 high-quality Nuance Vocalizer voices are available as free downloads, with the language of your choice.

The voice can be made to speak faster or slower. The voices are installed within ClaroSpeak, so they work when not online and do not use up any data allowance.

Additional Nuance & Acapela voices in 30+ languages and even more accents are available through in-app purchase in ClaroSpeak.

. Capture text from photo
This feature lets you select a photo from your library or take a new one with your camera. Your chosen image will be scanned for text, using high-quality OCR (powered by ABBYY), and the text in the image will be inserted into ClaroSpeak.

***Minimum camera spec: 2MP***

. Word Prediction & Autocorrection
Word prediction helps with writing more quickly and accurately. Train dictionaries from the current text so the best suggestions come up first. Enable Claro autocorrect and ClaroSpeak will use our specifically designed correction list to automatically correct misspelt words as they are typed.

. Visual Highlighting
Text is highlighted as the text is read back. Highlighting allows you to coordinate reading and listening. ClaroSpeak lets you pick the color and style of highlighting required.
There are four highlighting modes to choose from: none, word by word, word trail, or sentence by sentence highlighting.

. Font & Layout
Change the font type, size or color to suit your needs. Layout the text for easier reading by adjusting the character, line and paragraph spacing and adjusting the page margins. Text can be formatted bold, italic and underlined to emphasize. Images can be inserted into the text from the camera or your library.

. Save to Audio
Convert any text into an audio file using any of the high-quality voices. This is quick and easy, allowing text to be listened to on the move. Great for proofreading on the go.

. Sharing your text
Text created within ClaroSpeak can be emailed, messaged, printed, opened in another app, or copied and pasted into another app, like Safari. Sending the text to Facebook and Twitter lets you join in with social media.

. Read webpages
You can now read webpages in Safari and other browsers, using the "Read with ClaroSpeak" extension from the share menu.

. Dropbox and Google Drive Integration
Open documents stored in Dropbox or Google Drive directly in ClaroSpeak. Save text and audio files directly back to Dropbox or Google Drive. Great for transferring files between devices and keeping files in the cloud.

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Version History Fixes an issue where changing some settings in the Claro Keyboard app could cause a crash.

Improves readability of some UI elements in dark mode. 7.7.11 05/07/2024 Minor bug fixes 7.7.8 10/16/2023 Fixes a bug where the speech slider was not visible in the keyboard app. 7.6.7 07/06/2023 Fixes a bug where the Save as audio option was missing from the save menu. 7.6.5 07/04/2023 Fixes a bug where some user settings were not being remembered. 7.6.3 06/28/2023 Fixed an issue where add-on voices were not displaying correctly. 7.6.2 06/22/2023 Minor bug fixes 7.0.24 09/02/2022 New Google OCR engine
* Improves OCR speed and accuracy.
* More supported languages.

Improved speech features
* You can now pause and resume speech in ClaroSpeak!
* Save as audio is now supported for iOS system voices.
* Claro Keyboard now has support for echo letter names.

Improved UI
* We’ve added new icons and improved the button sizes for the main UI elements to improve visibility.
* New cleaner streamlined menus.

Focus sentence
* A new setting that helps to eliminate distractions and increase your focus.
* When this setting is enabled, all the other text in the app will be dimmed.

Skip brackets
* A new setting that helps filter our any less-relevant text.
* When this is enabled, any text that is between a pair of opening and closing ( and ), will not be spoken.

Updated spellcheck
We’ve added more words to our spellcheck data to improve the accuracy of suggestions and corrections.

Updated prediction
* You now have the option to include the base dictionary along with another prediction dictionary of your choice., so you can get suggestions from two different dictionaries simultaneously.
* This is great if you have a specialised subject, such as science, but you would still like more standard suggestions to appear as well.
* New option to limit the number of prediction words that will be suggested. 7.0.8 04/20/2022 Fix a bug with the keyboard app not making downloaded prediction dictionaries available. 6.0.20 02/23/2022 Minor bug fixes. 6.0.17 12/09/2021 Minor bug fixes. 6.0.16 12/06/2021 Fixed an issue with opening some image PDF files 6.0.15 11/18/2021 Fixes an issue with spell check not working correctly for some languages.

Fixes an issue with Claro Keyboard sometimes not continuing speech. 6.0.14 11/11/2021 Fix an issue with Claro Keyboard not working correctly when echo letter sounds was enabled.

Fixed an issue with ClaroSpeak not loading some PDF files correctly.

Improves prediction toolbar visibility in dark mode. 6.0.13 08/17/2021 Fixes a problem with Letter sounds not working correctly. 6.0.12 08/10/2021 Fix an issue with some voices not speaking in Claro Keyboard.

Fixes an issue with the spellcheck not updating correctly for the last word in some documents. 6.0.11 07/27/2021 *New dynamic spellchecking feature, that can check as you type and suggest more accurate corrections.

*New grammar check feature that can help correct common grammatical mistakes. (English and Norwegian)

*New option to show pictures in word predictions, to help you choose the correct word.

*New scan from file option - you can now scan from PDFs, images and Word documents and ClaroSpeak will automatically import the recognised text.

*Tweaked the settings menu UI to make it easier to navigate 6.0.10 07/20/2021 Fixes an issue with some missing prediction words. 5.2.6 03/15/2021 Fixes an issue with some voices not loading correctly. 5.2.5 03/11/2021 Added a missing prediction dictionary for Swedish. 5.2.3 02/12/2021 Claro Keyboard now has a flag button that you can use to quickly switch keyboard languages! 5.2.2 12/07/2020 Fixes an issue with save as audio when using Acapela voices. 5.1.6 10/20/2020 Improves the accuracy of prediction suggestions in some languages. 5.1.3 09/15/2020 Fixes some issues with Swedish word prediction. 5.0.24 08/25/2020 Minor bug fixes. 5.0.23 08/05/2020