ClaroSpeak Plus User Reviews

Name: ClaroSpeak Plus
Rating: 3.3 (8 reviews)

ClaroSpeak Plus

Claro Software Limited

📚 Education

📊 Productivity

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Clark Speak

This app sucks!! I am dyslexic, and I wanted to use it for my schooling. I was going to take pictures of pages from my textbooks, then listen to it while i was at working, but you can’t save it and it only lets you have one page at a time. I wish I can get my money back!!!

gbeen84

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave your review of our ClaroSpeak app. You can take pictures of pages and then listen to them using the Save as audio files feature, which you can access by tapping the Save button. You scanning from the camera, you can add as many photos/pages as you want, but you do have to scan them individually. We're hoping to improve this in a future update, you can scan all of your selected photos together. If you need assistance with anything else, please get in touch with our support team at support@clarosoftware.com and they will be happy to assist. Claro Software

8

For short notes it is ideal, but for me to just sit and rant it is an issue because after a certain amount of words I can’t get onto the next page or scroll further down, I have to make a whole new document, which is frustrating.

It has great potential though, I look forward to its future, and I think that is what matters more than anything, we all fail and grow - and so do apps.

swancrow

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to leave this feedback for our ClaroSpeak app. The issue you're experiencing sounds like it could be a bug! We would love if you could contact our support team at support@clarosoftware.com and we can try to resolve this for you. We would also appreciate any other feedback or thoughts you have on how we can improve our ClaroSpeak app.

Does not read from picture scans...

The idea of the app is amazing but when I use the camera to “scan” text it somehow converts the text in the picture to random letters, numbers and signs... 🤷🏻‍♀️ I wasted $10...

swissmissmell

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hello, We're sorry to hear that you had a bad experience using our ClaroSpeak iOS app. The OCR in ClaroSpeak usually gives fantastic results, but it does depend on how good the photo is, that you use. If you're taking photos with your device being flat, then this can disrupt the accuracy of the OCR because your device cannot correctly detect which orientation it is in. If you would like some guidance or help with using the OCR in ClaroSpeak, please get in touch with our support team at support@clarosoftware.com and we'll be happy to assist.

Don’t buy

Barely functional and still has in app purchases for some functionality listed on the website (such as downloading an audio file)

boiqrtsobg

7 years ago

Response from developer

Hello, I am sorry to hear that you had a disappointing experience using our ClaroSpeak app. What issues did you encounter using the app? ClaroSpeak Plus only has in-app purchases for additional voices, which are complete optional. Everyone who purchases gets 4 free voice downloads of their choice. Downloading/saving as audio files are completely free and do not require any in-app purchases.

Horrible

Purchased the bundle thinking it would great for my dyslexic daughter to help with the numerous worksheets she needs to read. Unfortunately it is terrible. Voices are terrible, it doesn't flow as a human voice would. Words are not spoken correct as they are typed on the page. For the cost this software/app should be accurate. Forget anything that has to do with math. I want my money back.

Grecofamily

8 years ago

Response from developer

Hello, Thank you for leaving feedback for our ClaroSpeak app. We're disappointed to hear that you have had a bad experience using ClaroSpeak. Were you using the iOS system voices, or did you download any of the extra voices? You get to choose 4 of the higher-quality voices free-of-charge. If you are still using the app and would like some technical support regarding this issue, please get in touch at support@clarosoftware.com and we will be happy to help you with this.

Keep looking

I could not get a good picture or any useful OCR. I'll keep looking for a good app to provide mobile text to speech.

Tony87584

11 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, sorry you had poor OCR results, what device do you have? We recommend a minimum 2MP camera (iPhone 4 onwards, iPad 3rd gen onwards or iPod Touch 4th gen onwards). If your device meets this spec and you still have ClaroSpeak, please feel free to email your photo to support@clarosoftware.com and we can check it out here.

Feature requests: word limit, pdf and picture via Dropbox, etc.

This is a wonderful app. I use it more and more everyday for my college readings. I ask that the word limit (set at 20,000 words) be removed or changed to a million words. With newer and newer iPhones having more RAM and better processors, it is a unneeded limitation. I have some PDF documents that are very long that I would like to export as audio.

Also, please allow images from Dropbox to be selected. I can only access pdf and docx.

Also, please add a bookmarking ability so that I can return to a place in a file that is previously ocr'd.

**please make it so that when viewing a PDF, and you scroll through the quick view (by pressing the area on the bottom to view the real pdf view) that when you click back to the OCR'd rendering of it - that it would go to that page that corresponds to the pdf view instead of having to click through every page individually. This is annoying with PDFs of very large page size.

Thanks!

adamhenley

11 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback Adam, I think we've spoke on email but I'll reply to this on here for others to see the answers. Unfortunately the saving to audio limit needs to stay in place (for now) as it uses up too much memory and crashes the app with anything larger. You should now be able to open image files from Dropbox and have them automatically OCRed into readable text. Regarding PDFs, please check out our PDF reading app called ClaroPDF (there's a free version if you want to try it out), this has loads of PDF features like bookmarking and annotations as well as text to speech with synchronised highlighting.

K

Waist of time, money and space. Closes itself after 10 seconds. I want my money back!

KAC 9044

11 years ago

No guarda audio

Esta aplicación es buena, pero no se puede guardar audio, me vi obligado a comprar esta otra aplicación pensando que funcionaba, pero perdí mi dinero. Compre las dos apps de claro speak" y claro speak plus y ningunas se pueden guardar los archivos como audio. Solamente como texto. 😒. Espero en nuevas acualizaciones se pueda.

Gracias

bonnYnnod

12 years ago

Sloppy

Pretty sloppy programming. When you hit pause and then hit play again, the program doesn't carry on where you left off, but continues from some other random place, page away from where you left off. While otherwise the program works, this bug makes it pretty useless for most applications.

Prof Rob