Simple and easy to use, I use it for articles I listen to in the car during. Balabolka supports the following formats Text: TXT, DOC, DOCX, FB2, PDF, HTML, RTF Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG Author's review.īy Anonymous Simple and easy to use, I use it for articles I listen to in the car during. Balabolka is a seriously flexible and entirely free text-to-speech engine.
While Balabolka’s not perfect, it’s very good, and in many cases is just as good, if not better, than similar paid apps. The quality of the speech produced by Balabolka varies greatly, but you can have a major influence by picking the reading voice carefully and tweaking the settings so that you deal with pauses, speed and unusual words in the most efficient way. There are bunches more – the options that will interest you will surely depend on what you intend to use Balabolka for. It also has a timer, so you can set it to read before bedtime, for example, and can completely be controlled by hotkeys. It’s really useful for file management, even allowing you to split and convert documents.
It’s worth taking your time to check out all of Balabolka’s options. It will automatically detect any TTS voices you have installed on your computer and, of course, you can download more voices, both free and paid, from the internet.
It can also read the clipboard content and view text from documents saved as DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF or RTF files. Preset voice variants can be applied to any of the language voices by appending a plus sign (+).īalabolka allows you to save text as WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA. View a list of available eSpeak languages and codes for more information. Download voices for Immersive Reader, Read Mode, and Read Aloud. The Microsoft SAPI5 voices are a tad better and free with the SDK and I occasionally use them with Balabolka but quite frankly voice changing software and live actors are far far better and more accepted. We create voices that read, inform, explain, present, guide, educate, tell stories, help to communicate, alarm, notify, entertain. Acapela Group, inspiring provider of voices and speech solutions.
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