Blair Aloud

Blair Aloud, by SoftBlair: reads pages aloud, takes voice commands and captions tab audio. All on your device.

If you can see it or hear it on screen, Blair can say it, caption it, or click it for you. Blair Aloud, by SoftBlair, is an accessibility helper for people who are blind or have low vision, people with dyslexia, people who find a mouse or keyboard hard to use, and people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Everything happens on your computer: your voice, the pages you read and the sound you caption never leave it. READ THE SCREEN ALOUD • Reads any web page in Blair’s own voices: 94 English voices, natural US and UK voices plus era voices (1961 Lab, 1970s Toy Windup, Robot and Cartoon, 1980s Home Computer, 1990s Desktop). Made on your computer, never online. • Prefer your computer’s own voices? They’re still in the list. • Says what each control is and its state: "Save, button, pressed", "Email, edit text, required". • Follows keyboard focus and announces page updates (live regions) as they happen. • Jump by headings, links and landmarks with keyboard shortcuts. • Buttons with no label? Blair makes a careful guess ("maybe Send, button"), and you can teach her: say "that icon is Save" and she remembers it on that site. • Password fields are never read aloud unless you turn that on. READ ON DEMAND • Select text, or point at a paragraph, and press Alt+Shift+S (Control+Shift+S on a Mac). • Each word is highlighted as it is read, without changing the page. • Reads the text inside pictures, on your computer. • Clear speech: $5 is "5 dollars", 10/22/2026 is "October 22 2026", 100% is "100 percent". Choose how much punctuation you hear (none, some, most, all). Code is skipped unless you want it. VOICE COMMANDS • Hold Alt+Shift+Space and speak, or turn on listening with Alt+Shift+V. On a Mac: Control+Shift+Space and Control+Shift+V. • "click Save", "scroll down", "next heading", "read page", "stop", "faster", "type hello", "help". • "show numbers" puts a number on every control; then say "click 5". • Speech is understood on your computer by a built-in speech engine. Nothing is sent online. LIVE CAPTIONS • Press Alt+Shift+L (Control+Shift+L on a Mac) on any tab with sound: captions appear in a box you can move and resize. • Captions are saved only if you press Save. PRICE • Personal: $59.99 once, for 1 computer (shared by everyone who uses that computer). • Business and education: $180 once, for 3 computers. • No subscription, no trial. Try everything on the built-in sample page first, then buy at softblair.app. Once activated, Blair Aloud works offline for good. PRIVACY No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. The only time Blair Aloud uses the internet is when you activate your key. Blair Aloud · by SoftBlair