Dec 08, 2020 Download Balabolka. Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. Usually, Balabolka should be able to detect the voices automatically. But this does not work under Ubuntu. Furthermore, Balabolka does not seem to have an option which enables the user to manually select the installed voices if they are not detected by Balabolka itself.
Overview
Balabolka is 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 a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files.
Features
This program has the following features:
- Change the volume, pitch and rate of the voices
- Support for several different dictionaries
- Built in translator supported by Google
- Magnify Glass tool that allows you to look at the text magnified 2X,4X,6X and 8X
- Bookmark tool that allows you to break up text and place bookmarks in text to keep track of your reading
- Allows you to convert text into audio files with customizable voice options
- Works as a word processor allowing you to type in the program and have your writing read back to you
Installation Guide
1. Visit the official Balabolka website at: http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm
2. Click the link labelled 'Download Balabolka'
3. Save the file balabolka.zip to harddrive and unzip folder
4. In the unzipped folder click 'setup.exe' to install the program
Portable Version
Balabolka Voices Online
There is also a portable version of Balabolka that requires no installation and can be downloaded onto a USB flash drive. This version can be downloaded here: http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka_portable.zip
1. Click the above link
2. Unzip the downloaded file
3. Place the unzipped folder onto a USB drive
4. Plug into any computer and run the file from the USB drive
Preview
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 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). |
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| Version:Changelog |
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Portable Balabolka does not require an installation and can be run from a USB drive.
A computer must have at least one voice installed.
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.
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.
*Balabolka is a Russian word, it can be translated as 'chatterer'.
The program allows to use skins for customizing your window appearance.
Download Skin Pack (6.7 MB, 107 skins)
Daniel Uk Voice Download Balabolka
Balabolka can use the Microsoft Speech API 4.x/5.x voices and the Microsoft Speech Platform text-to-speech engines.
Use the fresh versions of speech engines.
RHVoice - free and open source speech synthesizer (it supports English, Esperanto, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Portuguese, Russian, Tatar and Ukrainian):
How To Get More Voices In Balabolka
UkrVox - free Ukrainian voice created by Yaroslav Kozak (Lviv, Ukraine):
Ekho - free TTS engine (it supports Cantonese, Mandarin and Zhaoan Hakka):
To get better voice quality, you can purchase commercial TTS engines.
High Quality Commercial Voices:
- Acapela Group (demo) - Infovox 4
- Alfanum (demo)
- Cepstral (demo)
- IVONA (demo)
- Nuance/Cerence (demo)
- ReadSpeaker (demo)
The Microsoft Speech Platform allows developers to build and deploy Text-to-Speech applications. The Microsoft Speech Platform consists of a Runtime, and Runtime Languages (engines for speech recognition and text-to-speech). There are separate Runtime Languages for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The version of the Runtime Languages must match the version of the Speech Platform that you installed.
Use the following steps to install the Microsoft Speech Platform (version 11.0):
- Download and install the Speech Platform Runtime
(the file 'x86_SpeechPlatformRuntimeSpeechPlatformRuntime.msi'). - Download and install Runtime Languages for use with the Speech Platform
(files with names starting with 'MSSpeech_TTS_').
The Microsoft Speech Platform currently provides support for 26 languages for speech synthesis. XML tags can be used both for SAPI 5 and the Speech Platform.
Balabolka can use Hunspell (hunspell.github.io). Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox.
Spell checker dictionaries for Windows:
Balabolka can use language modules from Microsoft Office 97/2000 for spell checking. If Microsoft Office is not installed on your computer, or you use the other version of Microsoft Office, you can download spell checking components from my web-site:
Balabolka allows to use the spell checking built in operating system. The Spell Checking API is available beginning with the Windows 8.
