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Read&Write lets everyone read, write and express themselves more confidently.
An easy-to-use toolbar makes documents, files and web pages more accessible. Read&Write is a big confidence booster for anyone who needs a little support with their reading and writing, at school or in the workplace. And its friendly literacy features help English Language Learners, as well as people with learning difficulties or requiring dyslexia tools.
From hearing emails or documents read out loud to text prediction, picture dictionaries and summary highlighters, Read&Write makes lots of everyday literacy tasks simpler, quicker and more accurate.
Hear
Hear web pages and documents read aloud to improve reading comprehension, with choice of natural voices
Develop
Develop writing skills with word prediction
Improves
Improves confidence and understanding levels for struggling readers
Assists
Assist English Language Learners and individuals with English as a Second Language
Understand
Understand unfamiliar words with text and picture dictionaries
Support
Supports independent learning and understanding
Helps
Help students and employees with dyslexia and other literacy challenges
Offers
Offers bilingual support for a growing number of languages
ClaroRead helps students to be more confident, independent and productive learners by providing an effective suite of reading, writing and study tools.
Text-to-Speech
Read what is typed including individual words, passages, or whole documents aloud with easy-to-follow dual colour highlighting.
Spellchecker
Speaking spellcheck lets you select the word you want by hearing the alternatives.
Listening later
Read text into an audio or video file to listen to later.
Scanning (OCR)
Convert printed documents and image files into PDF, Word and many other formats for reading and annotation later.
Screen capture
Make any text displayed on the screen read aloud
Dictation
When paired with Dragon Professional. (not included)
Dictionary
Speaking dictionary for any word in any program with over 300,000 English definitions.
The #1 Text to Speech Reader.
Power through docs, articles, PDFs, email — anything you read — by listening with our leading text-to-speech reader for Chrome, iOS, & Android
Get more with TTS
Boost your understanding and focus. Remember more of what you read.
Maximize your time
Breeze through your content 2-3x faster than it takes to read it.
Do more at once
Take your reading wherever you go – to the gym, the park, or the couch
Listen at any speed
High-quality AI voices can read up to 9x faster than the average reading speed, so you can learn even more in less time.
Listen to any book on your shelf
Use the app to snap a pic of a page in any book and hear it read out loud to you.
Listen on desktop or mobile devices
Anything you’ve saved to your Speechify library instantly syncs across devices so you can listen to anything, anywhere, anytime.
Natural-sounding human voices
Our reading voices sound more fluid and human-like than any other AI reader so you can understand and remember more.
Assistive Technology for Learning Disabilities and Literacy Support. Speech-enables any text making it accessible to all.
100% Web-based
No downloads required and ReadSpeaker TextAid and any saved texts and uploaded documents can be accessed anytime, anywhere, from any internet-connected device and browser, whether in the classroom, at home, or on the go. Students can access a reading assignment at school and then log back in at home and complete their homework.
Reading Language, Voice, and Speed
Choose up to five reading languages from the 20+ languages available. Some languages offer multiple voices. Check here for a complete list of available languages. You can also adjust the reading speed to your comfort level.
Copy and Paste
Have ANY text read out loud.
Talking Calculator
Read numbers and calculations.
Text Highlighting
Text is highlighted as it is being read. This text can come from websites, emails, scanned documents, textbooks, PDFs, and more.
Document and OCR Reading
Upload documents in various formats, including scanned documents, images, PowerPoint, PDF, Word,
EPUB, etc.
Word Prediction and Auto-completion
Learns from each individual user to predict and complete words. Please check here for supported languages for this feature.
Highlighter
Highlight passages in various colors to later be collected as a summary of the text that may be edited, printed, or downloaded.
Download Audio Files
Save an audio version of any text to any device or to Dropbox to access at any time, even while offline.
Text Selection and Word Lookup
Select any part of the text and listen to only that section. Look up a selected word in the dictionary, look up selected text on Wikipedia, or perform a web search on Google.
Personalized Settings
Customize TextAid for more comfortable reading. Choose your reading speed, text color, size, and font, including OpenDyslexic, and highlighting colors.
Annotations
Draw or write text directly on any uploaded document. Use annotations to fill in the blanks in assignments or add notes to learning material. You can save, print, or email your documents with or without the annotations.
Screen Mask and Reading Ruler
Focus on a part of the text, or on one line at a time, for easier reading.
Personal Text Library
Save any document to your personal library and access it from any browser or device. Search and upload Bookshare e-books from a Bookshare account.
Translation
Translate text into any of the available languages, then listen to the translation.
Text Read Back
Text is read back as it is typed, per character, word, and/or sentence.
Spell Check
Check your text for spelling errors and choose from the suggested corrections. Please check here for supported languages for this feature.
Dictation
You can dictate any text: it is written out as you speak with speech-to-text technology.
Exam Mode
Teachers and coordinators can speech enable tests, exams and quizzes within secure learning environments, e‑assessment platforms, even locked browsers and proprietary proctoring systems. Features can be customized or removed for assessments.
