CLiCk, Speak Features
- Price - FREE. That's a pretty tough deal to beat.
- Reading with a simple interface - CLiCk, Speak is designed to be as easy to use for sighted users as possible. The interface is completely mouse driven; there's no need to remember any key combinations. Reading through a page is as simple as placing the cursor and hitting the GO button; reading a selection is as easy as highlighting the text and hitting the SPEAK button.
- Multilingual support - CLiCk, Speak uses standard speech engine interfaces such as SAPI 5, Java FreeTTS, and ORCA. Any voice synthesizer that supports these interfaces can be used with CLiCk, Speak. Since there are many languages available for SAPI 5, this makes CLiCk, Speak an ideal tool for people who are trying to hear foreign language web pages because they can understand the spoken language easier than the written version, because they want to hear the language for practice, etc. CLiCk, Speak uses the "lang" attribute to determine the appropriate language to use; it will even work on pages where there are multiple languages being used as long as all the sections are marked properly. If you would like to try out this feature, you can go to this multilingual demo page.
- Close integration with Firefox - Because CLiCk, Speak works directly within the Firefox browser, it always provides users with a live view of the webpage, rather than a frozen snapshot which is what many other screen readers provide. This means that CLiCk, Speak has the ability to handle dynamic pages better.
- The best of Fire Vox - Like Fire Vox, CLiCk, Speak has support for the CSS 3 speech module and MathML. As new features are added to Fire Vox, if they will be useful to CLiCk, Speak users, they will be added to the system. Since Fire Vox and CLicK, Speak come from the same product line architecture, features can be ported between them as long as the features are appropriate for the intended audience.
- Constant Evolution - I work hard to keep CLiCk, Speak up to date, enable it to support the latest web technologies, and to do an even better job on what it already does.