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Overview Description Description (in German) |
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April 30, 2008 - Cross+A 7.08 released. May 1, 2008 - Balabolka 1.16 released. |
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If you want to help Balabolka - buy my program Cross+A As long as people pay money for Cross+A, Balabolka will remain freeware. Thank you! |
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 or MP3 file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, 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.
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Size: 1564 KB | |
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Version: 1.16.0.305 | |
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Licence: Freeware | |
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Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista | |
Language: | English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish |
* Balabolka is a Russian word, it can be translated as "chatterer".
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:
Starting from the version 1.15, Balabolka supports GNU Aspell (http://aspell.net). GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker.
The latest binaries of GNU ASpell for Windows and the precompiled dictionaries can be downloaded from the web-site of the project.
- Download and install Aspell program:
GNU Aspell-0.50.3
- Download and install one or more dictionaries:
Balabolka supports skins that allow you to customize your window appearance.
Download Skin Pack (1172 KB, 45 skins)
Lernout & HauspieŽ TruVoice TTS engine (free voices):
American English (1 MB)
British English (2.5 MB)
Dutch (2.6 MB)
French (2.2 MB)
German (2.2 MB)
Italian (2 MB)
Portuguese (Brazil) (2.4 MB)
Russian (2.9 MB)
Spanish (2.4 MB)
Microsoft Voices Mary, Sam and Mike (7.5 MB)
RealSpeak TTS engine (free voices):
| French (22.5 MB) Mirror | |
| German (20.7 MB) Mirror | |
| Italian (21.5 MB) Mirror | |
| Spanish (21.7 MB) Mirror |
To get better voice quality, you can buy commercial TTS engines.
High Quality Commercial Voices:
- NextUp.com - SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 voices
To use SAPI 4 voices, download and install the redistributable Microsoft Speech API file (824 KB). Also, you may download and install the Microsoft Speech Control Panel (840 KB); the Speech Control Panel will add an icon to your Control Panel to enable you to list the compatible text-to-speech engines installed on your system and customize their settings for your use.