Balabolka 2.15.0.907 – 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 2.15.0.907 (2025-09-30):

• Added the setting to fix pauses between paragraphs when reading aloud with Microsoft Online voices (the window “Settings”, the tab “Reading”).
• Fixed converting subtitles to speech for SAPI 5 voices.
• Fixed the using of Google TTS.
• Updated the OpenSSL libraries.
• Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and IBM Watson.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian, Korean and Vietnamese languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić, VenusGirl and Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

Changes in version 2.15.0.906 (2025-09-13):

• Small improvements.
• Fixed the using of Lingvanex.
• Updated the text extracting from DOCX and ODT files.

Changes in version 2.15.0.905 (2025-09-06):

• Added the use of Glosbe Translator.
• Added accelerator keys to the window “Find/Replace”. (This is an experiment, as there is a problem due to the many languages of the program interface.)
• Fixed text highlighting when reading aloud.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian, Korean, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić, VenusGirl, Fresta, Fettah Pınar and Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng).

Changes in version 2.15.0.904 (2025-08-29):

• Added a setting to choose between lame_enc.dll and lame.exe for converting audio data to MP3 (the window “Audio Files”, the tab “Advanced”).
• Fixed the use of Google TTS.
• Updated the list of languages for Google TTS.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Korean and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Adaptech s.r.o. and VenusGirl).

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.

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

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

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Size: 24.9 MB

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