Balabolka 2.15.0.922 – 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 2.15.0.922 (2026-10-25):

• Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure.
• Updated the voice list for Yandex SpeechKit.
• Resources for Arabic language were updated (thanks to Majid Al-Asiri).

Changes in version 2.15.0.921 (2026-10-10):

• Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Vietnamese languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Kyunghan Bae and Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

Changes in version 2.15.0.920 (2026-09-19):

• Added the dictionary for replacing ligatures (thanks to Doug Edmunds).
• Updated the voice list for IBM Watson.
• The IBM Watson TTS service documentation states that the service always synthesizes audio with a sampling rate of 22.05 kHz. However, new natural voices returns audio data with a sampling rate of 24 kHz. The application will perform resampling.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Nencho Nedelev-Karlov, Adaptech s.r.o. and Zoltan Magyar).

Changes in version 2.15.0.919 (2026-08-23):

• Updated the voice list for Microsoft Azure.
• Resources for Vietnamese language were updated (thanks to Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

Changes in version 2.15.0.918 (2026-07-18):

• Fixed the using of LibreTranslate.
• Resources for Bulgarian and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fettah Pınar).

Changes in version 2.15.0.917 (2026-06-06):

• Fixed the text extracting for EPUB and MOBI files.
• Fixed the using of Google TTS.

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: 31.4 MB

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