Balabolka 2.15.0.915 – Text To Speech

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files. Also it can customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). It allows to alter a voice’s parameters, including rate and pitch.

The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice’s articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.

Balabolka can save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When you play an audio file with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously. At the same way, as lyrics for songs. The on-screen text you can save as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file.

Supported Languages in Balabolka:

English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

Changes in version 2.15.0.915 (2026-04-18):

• Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
• Updated the voice list for IBM Watson.

Changes in version 2.15.0.914 (2026-04-11):

• Fixed the bug that occurred when processing universal tags after pausing and resuming read aloud.
• Fixed the speech rate when switching between voices using tags.
• Updated the voice list for Yandex SpeechKit.
• Resources for French language were updated (thanks to Michel Such).

Changes in version 2.15.0.913 (2026-02-21):

• Fixed the using of Amazon Polly.
• Updated the voice list for Microsoft Azure.
• Resources for Chinese (Simplified), Spanish and Vietnamese languages were updated (thanks to Anan, Fernando Gregoire and Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

Changes in version 2.15.0.912 (2026-01-26):

• Fixed the using of Microsoft Translator.
• Updated the voice lists for Google Cloud and IBM Watson.
• Resources for German, Polish, Spanish and Uzbek language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller, Fresta, Fernando Gregoire and Ulugbek Tolakov).

Changes in version 2.15.0.911 (2026-01-10):

• Small improvements.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian and Korean languages were updated.

Changes in version 2.15.0.910 (2025-12-13):

• Fixed small bugs.
• Resources for Korean language were updated

Changes in version 2.15.0.909 (2025-11-22):

• Disabled the ElevenLabs demo. (The service is available only with an API key.)
• Fixed the using of Google Translate.
• Updated the voice list for Google Cloud.
• Resources for Croatian, Czech, Italian, Korean, Slovak and Turkish languages were updated

Homepage – https://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

Supported Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.

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Size: 25.0 MB

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