Balabolka 2.15.0.891 – 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 2.15.0.891 (2025-03-29):

• Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure (thanks to Fettah Pınar).
• Updated the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech.
• Resources for German and Uzbek languages were updated (thanks to Regine Müller and Ulugbek Tolakov).

Changes in version 2.15.0.890 (2025-03-22):

• Small improvements.
• Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud.
• Resources for Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese languages were updated

Changes in version 2.15.0.889 (2025-02-22):

• Added large icons for the toolbar (thanks to Dmitry Kharybin).
• Added new options to the translation window.
• Updated the using of ElevenLabs Text-To-Speech.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian, Turkish and Uzbek languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić, Fettah Pınar and Ulugbek Tolakov).

Changes in version 2.15.0.888 (2025-02-15):

• Added the button “Translate with All Services” to the translation window.
• Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure.
• Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian and Polish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Petar Divić and Fresta).

Changes in version 2.15.0.887 (2025-02-08):

• Added the using of ElevenLabs Text-To-Speech.
• FPT.AI Text-To-Speech is available again.
• Added the style degree option for Microsoft Azure (not available if the WebSocket protocol is used).
• Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
• Resources for Czech and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o.).

Changes in version 2.15.0.886 (2024-12-28):

• Added the using of Systran Translate.
• Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure.
• Updated resources for Korean language

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: 23.0 MB

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