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Balabolka v2.15.0.883

A free Text-To-Speech (TTS) program.

All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as an audio file. The program can read the clipboard content, extract text from documents, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka supports text file formats: AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.




The program 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 an audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously (at the same way, as lyrics for songs).

Supported operating systems:
Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11

Changes:
2024-11-30 v2.15.0.883
[+] Added the button "Select Voice" to the main window: the button will help to select items from the voice list if the voice list is long (thanks to Jean Bernardo da Silva Vieira).
[+] Small improvements.
[-] Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
[*] Updated the list of voices for CereVoice Cloud.
[*] Updated the using of Iciba TTS, Naver TTS and Youdao TTS.
[*] Removed all changes related to program crashes due to MMDevApi.dll system library. Here's what we know about the problem that appears after installing the 24H2 update for Windows 11: if the user's monitor contains speakers, if the graphics card and the monitor are connected by a cable that transmits sound - this leads to unstable work of Balabolka, it periodically crashes, and the MMDevApi.dll library is specified in the event log as the cause of the crash. But if you connect speakers or headphones to the audio jack on the motherboard of the same computer, Balabolka works stably. So, the problem is neither in the MMDevApi.dll library nor in Balabalka, but in some driver inside the 24H2 update. Until Microsoft developers fix the problem, here's the situation: if you installed Windows 11 update 24H2 and Balabolka starts crashing, connect your audio output device to a different port on your computer.



This download is for the Windows portable version (very bottom of page).
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Windows installer:
balabolka.zip

Windows Command Line Utility:
The utility contains no graphical user interface and works only from the command line.
The application handles various command line parameters to be able to read text aloud or save as an audio file
balcon.zip

Text Extract Utility:
The program allows to extract text from the various types of files. The extracted text can be combined into one file or/and split into few files. The utility works from the command line, without displaying any user interface.
blb2txt.zip



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8,816 15,154 Ilya Morozov <img src="https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/gallery/thumbs/balabolka_th.png"border="0"> Dec 03, 2024 - 12:04 2.15.0.883 23.26MB ZIP 5/5, out of 62 Votes.
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