[access-uk] Re: From Greece with love:Balabolka

  • From: "Amro Bilal" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:24:31 -0000

Neat app. Thanks for sharing.

Best,
Amro

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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

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 CHM, DjVu, 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

The program 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 Balabolka
Size: 6767 KB
Version: 2.3.0.516
Licence: Freeware
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Language:
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),
Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish,
Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish,
Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Help Files: English, French, German, Korean,
Russian, Ukrainian Portable Version:
Download
  (6466 KB)
Portable Balabolka does not require an installation and can be run from a
USB drive.
A computer must have at least one voice installed.

* Balabolka is a Russian word, it can be translated as "chatterer".

Balabolka

Balabolka supports skins that allow you to customize your window appearance.

Download Skin Pack
  (2.4 MB, 61 skins)

Balabolka

Balabolka

Voices

The program can use SAPI 4.x/5.x voices and the Microsoft Speech Platform
text-to-speech engines.

SAPI 4

Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice TTS engine (free voices):

list of 11 items
? American English
  (1 MB)
? British English
  (2.5 MB)
? Dutch
  (2.6 MB)
? French
  (2.2 MB)
? German
  (2.2 MB)
? Italian
  (2 MB)
? Japanese
  (3 MB)
? Korean
  (3 MB)
? Portuguese (Brazil)
  (2.4 MB)
? Russian
  (2.9 MB)
? Spanish
  (2.4 MB)
list end
To use SAPI 4 voices, download and install the redistributable Microsoft
Speech API
  file (827 KB). Also, you may download and install the Microsoft Speech
Control Panel
  (928 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.

SAPI 5

Microsoft TTS engine (free voices):

list of 1 items
? Microsoft Voices Mary, Sam and Mike
  (7.5 MB)
list end

RealSpeak TTS engine (free voices, published on the server of Microsoft):

list of 5 items
? British English
  (19.4 MB)
Mirror
? French
  (22.5 MB)
Mirror
? German
  (20.7 MB)
Mirror
? Italian
  (21.5 MB)
Mirror
? Spanish
  (21.7 MB)
Mirror
list end

Yaroslav Kozak (Lviv, Ukraine) created the Ukrainian voice UkrVox:

list of 1 items
? UkrVox Igor
list end

To get better voice quality, you can buy commercial TTS engines.

High Quality Commercial Voices:

list of 7 items
? Acapela Group
? ATT Natural Voices
? Cepstral
? Loquendo
? NeoSpeech
? Nuance
? IVONA
list end


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