Balabolka is a mildly customizable freeware text to speech application that is capable of utilizing all the installed computer voices on your PC.

Balabolka is a mildly customizable text to speech application that is capable of utilizing all the installed computer voices on your PC.

It can easily save any on-screen text as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA files. Also, it can successfully gather up all your clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, FB2, and HTML files, customize font and background colors, control reading via global hotkeys or by the system tray. You will find that Balabolka is compatible with Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) permitting you to manipulate the parameters like voice rate, pitch, and volume.

You can also apply a special substitution list which will improve the voice articulation quality which will be useful when you want/need to change the pronunciation of words.

For those of you wondering, Balabolka is a Russian word which roughly translates to "chatterer."

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