The program converts text to speech and WAV/MP3 files.
Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files, 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 VBScript.
Changelog for this release:
+ Added the support of Microsoft Speech Platform: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh361572.aspx The current version of Speech Platform supports 26 languages. Download and install Speech Platform Runtime: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27225 Download and install Text-to-Speech Engines: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27224 The installed voices will be available on the tab "Microsoft Speech Platform" in the program.
- The version 1.xx of Balabolka is not supported anymore. * Resources for Bulgarian, German, Italian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Mueller, Fabio Boccaletti, Choi Youn-Soo and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).
RoSoftDownload.com team has tested Balabolka against viruses, spyware, adware, trojan, backdoors and was found to be 100% clean of any form of malware.. Our editors will test this application periodically to assure that it remains clean.
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