Balabolka

Size: 1522 KB

Version: 1.14.0.284

Licence: Freeware

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

Language:

English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil),
Romanian, Russian, Spanish

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

Balabolka can use language modules from Microsoft Office 97/2000 for spell checking. If Microsoft Office is not installed on your computer, or you use the other version of Microsoft Office, you can download spell checking components from my web-site:

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

Download Skin Pack (1069 KB, 41 skins)

Lernout & Hauspie® TruVoice TTS engine (free voices):

•   American English (1 MB)

•   British English (2.5 MB)

•   Dutch (2.6 MB)

•   French (2.2 MB)

•   German (2.2 MB)

•   Italian (2 MB)

•   Portuguese (Brazil) (2.4 MB)

•   Russian (2.9 MB)

•   Spanish (2.4 MB)

•   Microsoft Voices Mary, Sam and Mike (7.5 MB)

RealSpeak TTS engine (free voices):

•   French (22.5 MB)

•   German (20.7 MB)

•   Italian (21.5 MB)

•   Spanish (21.7 MB)

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

High Quality Commercial Voices:

• NextUp.com - SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 voices

• Acapela Group

• AT&T Natural Voices

• Cepstral

• Loquendo

• NeoSpeech

• Nuance

• SVOX

• IVONA

To use SAPI 4 voices, download and install the redistributable Microsoft Speech API file (824 KB). Also, you may download and install the Microsoft Speech Control Panel (840 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.