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Software for reading and writing support

If you need support in your reading or writing, you can use speech synthesis and spell-checking software or dictionaries for Swedish and English. You can use the software as long as you are a student at Umeå University.


Umeå University has agreements that allow our students to use the software presented below on your personal computer. You may use the software during your whole period as a student.

Turn to the software suppliers if you need support in using the software.

The software can also be installed on the University's computers. Contact your department if you need help to install a software on a computer in, for example, a computer lab.

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Speech synthesis

ClaroReadPlus is a speech synthesis software with support for many languages suitable for PC and Mac. The software can read text in Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer. Licences are valid for one year at a time.

Get support with ClaroReadPlus

Latest update: 2026-08-24

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