Balabolka 2.15.0.875 – 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 2.15.0.875 (2024-07-22):

• Fixed the using of Google Text-To-Speech.
• Updated resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Vietnamese languages.

Changes in version 2.15.0.874 (2024-07-14):

• Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
•  Updated resources for Polish language

Changes in version 2.15.0.873 (2024-07-06):

• Added the using of Alibaba Translate.
• The using of Baidu Translate and IBM Watson Language Translator services were disabled.
• The using of translation services was fixed.
• Updated resources for Italian and Spanish languages  (thanks to Massimo Castiglia and Fernando Gregoire).

Changes in version 2.15.0.872 (2024-06-16):

• Fixed the text extracting for PDF files.
• Updated Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, German, Slovak, Spanish and Uzbek languages (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić, Regine Müller, Adaptech s.r.o., Fernando Gregoire and Ulugbek Tolakov).

Changes in version 2.15.0.871 (2024-06-01):

• Updated the using of Google Cloud, IBM Watson Text-To-Speech and SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
• Updated Bulgarian, Croatian and Vietnamese languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić and Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

Changes in version 2.15.0.870 (2024-05-26):

• Fixed the applying of regular expressions.
• Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
• Updated the subtitle converting for SAPI 5 and Microsoft Speech Platform.
• Updated the subtitle converting for online TTS services.
• Resources for Vietnamese language were updated (thanks to Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

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

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Size: 22.6 MB

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