passing this along From: Tuvix Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM To: Audio-Tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Audio-Tech] Balabolka a freeware Text to Speech program 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) (Download link below). http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.zip Chris W. ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrea Sherry To: Audio-Tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:50 PM Subject: [Audio-Tech] Text to Speech Excellent freeware text to speech which will translate 1 types of documents including 2003 and 2007 documents as well as pdf. I downloaded this program from www.betanews.com where it is displayed as a beta p0rogram. It runs as a stand-alone utility I am a registered owner of Text Aloud and I think this new program is just as good and it is freeware. Details: WWW: http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm E-mail: crossa@xxxxxxxxx Cheers Andrea __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: a.. New Members 13 Visit Your Group To post to Audio-Tech, send your message to: Audio-Tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to Audio-Tech, send a blank email to: Audio-Tech-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from Audio-Tech, send a blank email to: Audio-Tech-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To contact any of the moderators or the owner, send your message to: Audio-Tech-owner @yahoogroups.com Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest . Unsubscribe . Terms of Use. __,_._,___ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5467 (20100921) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5467 (20100921) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes