Balabolka 2.5.0.527

4.8 out of 5 stars 4.8 (35 votes)

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Windows 7/2000/Server 2003/Vista/XP / Freeware / 8,029 downloads

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, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF 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 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).

Reviews of Balabolka

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Ball Sacks

    Reviewing 2.3.0.513 (Dec 7, 2011)

    Best software for it's type. and free.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 2.2.0.494 (Feb 14, 2011)

    Has a portable version and can import chm, doc, epub, fb2, html, odt, pdf and rtf and save as audio file in multiple formats.
    Very nice

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    jogygeorge

    Reviewing 2.0.0.484 Beta (Nov 10, 2010)

    Nice program, works well and actually does more than my basic need. A 5 star rate for that.
    The program seems to be constantly updated and hence the 5 stars remain.
    No clue of what those updates are and hence taken of a star!

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    some guy

    Reviewing 2.0.0.484 Beta (Nov 9, 2010)

    work excellent windows 7 32 bit OS I used ATT voice engine, program non bloat clean and works good,

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