You can download Balabolka for free from our software library. It is a text-to-speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available for Balabolka.
The program can read clipboard content, display text from CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF, and RTF, customize font and background color, and control reading from the system tray or through global hotkeys.
Balabolka is a text-to-speech (TTS) program. Balabolka has access to all computer voices installed on your system. The screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG, or WMA file. The program can read clipboard contents, display text from AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF, and RTF files, adjust font and background color, and manage reading from the system tray or using global hotkeys.
The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows you to change voice parameters, including speed and pitch. Users can apply a special list of substitutions to improve speech pronunciation quality. This feature is useful when you want to change word spellings. Pronunciation correction rules use regular expression syntax. Balabolka can save synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside audio files. When playing an audio file with players on your computer or modern digital audio players, lyrics are displayed in sync (just like song lyrics).
Balabolka is a text-to-speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system can be used by Balabolka. Screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG, or WMA file.
The program can read clipboard contents, open DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2, and HTML files, customize background and font color, and control reading from the notification area (system tray) or through global hotkeys.
Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); you can change voice parameters, including speed and pitch. Users can apply a special list of substitutions to improve speech pronunciation quality. This feature is useful when you want to change word pronunciations. Pronunciation correction rules use VBScript syntax.
This article and others describe in more detail how to work with Balabolka for users who use screen readers like JAWS for Windows, NVDA, Window-Eyes, and others. License: Free.
Balabolka is a program for reading text files aloud. To reproduce human voice sounds, any speech synthesizers installed on the computer can be used.
Speech playback can be controlled using standard buttons, similar to those in any multimedia program ("Play/Pause/Stop").
The program can read clipboard contents aloud and display text in DOC, RTF, PDF, FB2, and HTML files, change font and color settings, and control the reading process from the system tray (notification area) or using global keyboard shortcuts, pronounce text typed on the keyboard, check spelling, split a text file into several smaller files, and search for similarities. "Balabolka" offers the ability to remove all hyphens at the end of lines from the text; this will avoid stuttering when reading words.
Text can be saved as an audio file (WAV, MP3, OGG, and WMA formats are supported). The program can work with different versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). It allows you to change speech speed and pitch.
Interface languages: Russian, English, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian, French, Czech.
Features of Balabolka
Users can apply a special replacement list to improve voice expression quality. This feature is useful when you want to change word spellings. Pronunciation correction rules use regular expression syntax.
Balabolka can save synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside audio files. When an audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed in sync (just like lyrics). Screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG, or WMA file.
Balabolka is a program that allows you to convert text to speech. It is useful for saving the audio recording afterward using a different tool, and integrating it as a narration in a video to be uploaded to YouTube (like a tutorial), for example.
The tool supports multiple input file types, such as TXT, EPUB, CHM, DOCX, DOC, HTM, and HTML, so you can either import files or type text directly.
User-friendly and well-organized interface
The graphical user interface is clean and very intuitive. The only available voice is Microsoft Anna, so you can enter text, select it, and read it aloud. During this time, it is possible to adjust the speech rate, pitch, and volume.
Utilize manual tools and settings
Additionally, you can read clipboard content aloud, skip to the previous text, paragraph, or line, and reset the rate and pitch. Moreover, Balabolka can find pairs of rules and names in the text, and you can also view the modified text.
The program application provides a clipboard monitor, batch file converter, text extractor from files, file comparison function, translation converter, Google translator, and magnifier. You can enable the spell checker and view a list of spelling errors, duplicate words, and sentenced or entire paragraphs in the text and create bookmarks.
Continuing with the list of available options, it is possible to use the search function, edit ID3 tags, split tracks and convert them to other audio formats (like WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA), undo actions, replace numbers with words, find similarities, or insert audio clips. The user interface supports multiple languages, and you can customize font format settings.
Evaluation and conclusion
We encountered no problems during testing, as Balabolka did not freeze or crash or show error dialogs. It leaves a small footprint on system performance, using low CPU and RAM. Considering the generous feature set and configuration parameters, Balabolka should meet the requirements of most users looking for a reliable and versatile text-to-speech software application.
Supported languages: English, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
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