Balabolka 2.15.0.903 – 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 2.15.0.903 (2025-08-25):

• Added the new setting for Clipboard Watch.
• Fixed the use of Google TTS.
• Fixed the use of LibreTranslate and Prompt.
• Updated the list of languages for Google TTS.

Changes in version 2.15.0.902 (2025-08-18):

• Fixed the use of Microsoft Azure via WebSocket.
• Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud.
• Resources for German and Polish languages were updated (thanks to Regine Müller and Fresta).

Changes in version 2.15.0.901 (2025-08-02):

• Small improvements.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Korean, Slovak, Uzbek and Vietnamese languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić, Adaptech s.r.o., VenusGirl, Ulugbek Tolakov and Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

Changes in version 2.15.0.900 (2025-07-20):

• Fixed the using of ElevenLabs Text-To-Speech.
• Fixed the applying of bookmarks.
• Fixed pauses between sentences and paragraphs on Windows 7.
• Updated the settings for “Timer”.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Italian, Korean and Uzbek languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Massimo Castiglia, Kim Young-Gam and Ulugbek Tolakov).
• Judging by the tests, Microsoft developers fixed a bug in the MMDevApi.dll system library: after installing the KB5060829 update for Windows 11 24H2, the library functions work without an error. But I can’t bring back the use of the MMDevApi.dll library in my application yet, as I have to wait until the update will be installed on most computers with Windows 11.

Changes in version 2.15.0.899 (2025-06-28):

• Fixed the text extracting for DOCX, FB2, FB3, ODP, ODT and PPTX files.
• Fixed the using of Google TTS.
• Fixed silence between paragraphs for Microsoft Azure.
• Updated the superscript/subscript extracting for AZW3, DOCX, FB2, FB3, HTML, ODP and ODT files.
• Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated (thanks to Anan).

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

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Size: 23.7 MB

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