Balabolka (Command Line Utility for Online Text-To-Speech Using) Copyright (c) 2019-2025 Ilya Morozov All Rights Reserved *** History *** 2025-05-24 v1.84 [-] Fixed the using of IBM Watson TTS. [*] Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud. 2025-05-08 v1.83 [-] Fixed the using of Google TTS. 2025-04-26 v1.82 [*] Updated the using of CereVoice Cloud. 2025-04-19 v1.81 [*] Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. 2025-03-29 v1.80 [+] Added the using of OpenAI TTS. [-] Fixed the using of Youdao TTS. [*] IBM Watson TTS is available again. [*] The option for audio encoding can be used for Microsoft Azure also (if the subscription key is applied). 2025-03-22 v1.79 [+] Added the option for audio encoding (can be used for Google Cloud only, for testing purposes). [*] Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud. 2025-02-15 v1.78 [-] Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure. 2025-02-08 v1.77 [+] Added the options for speaking styles used by Microsoft Azure voices. [*] Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure. 2025-02-01 v1.76 [+] Small improvements. [*] Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud. 2024-12-09 v1.75 [+] Added detection of input text file encoding. [-] Fixed small bugs. 2024-11-30 v1.74 [*] Updated the list of voices for CereVoice Cloud. [*] Updated the using of Iciba TTS, Naver TTS and Youdao TTS. 2024-11-09 v1.73 [+] Added the using of Descript TTS. 2024-11-06 v1.72 [+] Added the maximal rate value for subtitle converting. [*] Only the SoundTouch library will be used to make the speech fit within the time intervals in the subtitles. 2024-11-04 v1.71 [-] Disabled the using of IBM Watson TTS. (The service keeps returning the response status code HTTP 301.) 2024-10-26 v1.70 [*] Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. 2024-08-22 v1.69 [+] Added the using of Iciba TTS. 2024-07-22 v1.68 [-] Fixed the using of Google TTS. 2024-06-01 v1.67 [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure. 2024-05-26 v1.66 [+] Added the option to use the SoundTouch library for subtitle converting. [-] Fixed the applying of regular expressions. [*] Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. 2024-04-22 v1.65 [-] Fixed the using of IBM Watson TTS. 2024-04-06 v1.64 [*] Updated the lists of voices for Amazon Polly, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. 2024-01-27 v1.63 [-] Fixed small bugs. 2023-12-13 v1.62 [+] Added the option to set the configuration file name. [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure. 2023-11-14 v1.61 [-] Fixed the using of CereVoice Cloud. 2023-10-12 v1.60 [+] Added the option for pitch. 2023-09-23 v1.59 [-] Fixed the subtitle converting for online TTS services. 2023-06-17 v1.58 [*] Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud. [-] Fixed small bugs. 2023-06-10 v1.57 [*] Added the option for output audio sampling rate. 2023-06-02 v1.56 [*] Updated the using of CereVoice Cloud. [-] Fixed the subtitle converting. 2023-05-28 v1.55 [+] Added the using of CereVoice Cloud. 2023-05-27 v1.54 [+] Added the options for silence at the beginning/end of audio files. [-] Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure. [*] Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure. 2023-05-20 v1.53 [-] Fixed reading data from STDIN. [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure: the Websocket protocol is supported for demo. [*] Updated the list of voices for Amazon Polly. 2023-04-30 v1.52 [*] Updated the using of IBM Watson TTS. 2023-04-22 v1.51 [-] Fixed the using of Youdao TTS. [*] Updated the list of voices for Youdao TTS. 2023-04-19 v1.50 [*] Updated the list of voices for IBM Watson TTS. The neural voices have been removed since March 31, 2023. [-] Fixed the using of IBM Watson TTS. 2023-04-01 v1.49 [*] Updated the using of Naver TTS. 2023-03-16 v1.48 [-] Fixed the using of IBM Watson TTS. 2023-03-11 v1.47 [+] Added the support of subscription keys for Amazon Polly and Microsoft Azure. [+] Added the using of Google Cloud TTS (with an API-key only). [*] Improved the converting of subtitles. 2023-03-02 v1.46 [-] Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure. 2023-02-25 v1.45 [-] Fixed the using of Baidu TTS. 2023-02-18 v1.44 [*] Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure. 2023-02-04 v1.43 [*] Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure. 2023-01-13 v1.42 [-] Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure. 2022-11-26 v1.41 [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure. 2022-11-12 v1.40 [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure. 2022-10-16 v1.39 [-] Fixed the using of Baidu TTS. 2022-10-10 v1.38 [-] Fixed the using of IBM Watson TTS. 2022-07-02 v1.37 [-] Fixed the using of Naver TTS. 2022-06-25 v1.36 [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure. 2022-04-16 v1.35 [+] Small improvements. 2022-03-26 v1.34 [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure. 2022-01-17 v1.33 [+] Added the new option to insert pauses between adjacent sentences for Microsoft Azure. 2021-11-13 v1.32 [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure. 2021-11-24 v1.31 [-] Fixed the SSML using for Microsoft Azure. 2021-10-24 v1.30 [-] Fixed the SSML using for Microsoft Azure. [*] Updated the using of Microsoft Azure: the standard voices are no longer supported. 2021-10-07 v1.29 [+] Added the HTTP request timeout (5 seconds): the application waits when the TCP connection is broken. [-] Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure. 2021-09-25 v1.28 [+] Small improvements. [*] If online TTS service cannot pronounce the current sentence and returns no audio data, empty data will be replaced by silence. 2021-09-11 v1.27 [+] Added the using of Microsoft Azure. [+] Added the option to set a speech rate. 2021-09-04 v1.26 [+] Added the new option for subtitle converting. 2021-08-18 v1.25 [-] Removed the using of SpeechPro TTS. 2021-07-26 v1.24 [-] Fixed the using of Naver TTS. 2021-07-10 v1.23 [-] Fixed the using of IBM Watson TTS. 2021-07-03 v1.22 [-] Fixed the using of Naver TTS. [-] Fixed the using of SpeechPro TTS. [*] The library HASH_CALC.DLL is not used. 2021-06-19 v1.21 [+] Added the using of IBM Watson TTS. [+] Added the using of SpeechPro TTS. 2021-06-18 v1.20 [+] Added the using of Amazon Polly. 2021-05-25 v1.19 [-] Fixed the using of external audio files (audio clips). 2021-05-08 v1.18 [+] Added the output to stdout. 2021-05-06 v1.17 [-] Fixed the subtitle creating. 2021-04-08 v1.16 [+] Added the option to set a volume. [+] Added the option to open a file with a list of input filenames. [*] The HTTP request methods were updated. 2021-03-30 v1.15 [+] Small improvements. 2021-03-25 v1.14 [+] Added the using of Naver TTS. 2021-03-20 v1.13 [+] Added the options to insert blank lines after sentences and paragraphs in LRC files. 2021-02-23 v1.12 [+] Small improvements. [*] The library LAME_ENC.DLL is not used. 2021-01-24 v1.11 [+] Small improvements. 2020-12-27 v1.10 [-] Fixed small bugs. 2020-12-10 v1.9 [-] Fixed the using of Youdao TTS. 2020-12-08 v1.8 [-] Fixed the using of Youdao TTS. 2020-12-04 v1.7 [+] Added the option to ignore URLs in text. [+] Added the option to display progress information in a console window. 2020-11-16 v1.6 [-] Fixed the using of Google TTS. [*] The command line can contain more than one input text file name. 2020-06-29 v1.5 [+] Added the support of LRC format for subtitle converting. 2020-05-30 v1.4 [+] Added the support of WebVTT format for subtitle converting. 2020-03-12 v1.3 [*] The using of Google TTS was updated. 2019-12-29 v1.2 [+] Small improvements. 2019-08-17 v1.1 [+] Small improvements. [*] The utility was renamed (thanks to Valur Heeke for his advice). 2019-07-20 v1.0 [-] The using of Bing TTS was disabled. [*] The LAME encoder was updated. 2019-06-16 v0.9b [+] The console application is available for downloading.