If you want to help Balabolka, you might draw bitmap images with sizes 32 x 32 or 48 x 48 for buttons (use the images from the resources subfolder). Or you might translate sample.txt from the languages subfolder. If you are interested, please send an email to crossa@list.ru

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Pre-set voice variants can be applied to any of the language voices by appending a plus sign + and a variant name. Windows 8 added many speech synthesizers available for lots of languages. Install a new Text-to-Speech language in Windows 10 Within Windows 10 settings, you'll download the desired language and then set your speech language.
Pre-set voice variants can be applied to any of the language voices by appending a plus sign + and a variant name. Windows 8 added many speech synthesizers available for lots of languages. Install a new Text-to-Speech language in Windows 10 Within Windows 10 settings, you'll download the desired language and then set your speech language.

802.11 n wlan adapter driver windows 7 64 bit. I modded the original annoucer pack with voice-overs all done through text-to-speech with the Daniel (UK) voice with reverb. At the moment, it only works on Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss. I would like to make more exciting announcer packs and a tutorial on how to make them in the future, so this is just a basic start for me. Balabolka Voices Daniel Uk Plus Sign And Pre-set voice variants can be applied to any of the language voices by appending a plus sign and a variant name. Windows 8 added many speech synthesizers available for lots of languages. Antivirus for mac. More than 390 realistic voices across 60 languages and accents Text to Voice Converter powered by Google, Amazon and IBM text to speech generators.

What is SAPI?

The Speech API (SAPI) is an application programming interface developed by Microsoft to allow the use of speech synthesis within Windows applications. The SAPI provides a high-level interface between an application and speech engines. Text-To-Speech software synthesizes text strings and files into spoken audio using synthetic voices.

Where can I get SAPI 4?

To use SAPI 4 voices, download and install the redistributable Microsoft Speech API 4.0 file. Also, you may download and install the Microsoft Speech Control Panel; 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.

Where can I get SAPI 5?

Windows XP (and later versions) comes with SAPI 5.

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Speech Engines

How do I know what Text-To-Speech voices have been installed on the computer?

You can view all the voices available on the computer by following Control Panel->Speech->Speech Properties->Text To Speech->Voice selection.

Windows 10 has the new voices Microsoft Mark Mobile and Microsoft Zira Mobile, but they are not available in text-to-speech software. Is it possible to unlock the new voices?

By default, the Microsoft mobile voice is locked for using in text-to-speech software via SAPI 5. You can unlock it with a simple registry tweak. Download the archive, extract the file for your language and for your version of the operating system ('mobile_x86.reg' for 32-bit and 'mobile_x64.reg' for 64-bit), click the right mouse button on the file's name and choose the context menu item 'Merge'. The Microsoft mobile voice will appear in the list of the available voices in Balabolka.

My computer is running the 64-bit version of Windows. I have installed the 64-bit Runtime package for Microsoft Speech Platform and the English voices. But the list of available voices is still empty. Where is a problem?

Balabolka is the 32-bit application. You need to install the 32-bit Runtime package for Microsoft Speech Platform also.

What is Google Text-To-Speech?

In Google Translate you can find a 'Listen' button that converts text to speech. After pressing of this button a browser starts to download MP3 file. The service supports converting to speech texts not longer than 100 symbols. Balabolka allows to divide big text on small parts, create an audio file for each part and merge them together (WAV, MP3 and OGG formats are supported).

How do I change a voice during reading aloud?

Use the XML tags. It is recommended to write the opening and closing tags inside the same paragraph. For example:
<voice required='Name=Microsoft Zira Desktop'>Hello, how are you?</voice>
<voice required='Name=IVONA 2 Amy'>I am good.</voice>

I'm getting the error message 'OLE error 80045042'. What does that mean?

This error means: 'The XML parser failed due to bad syntax.' You must verify the syntax of the XML tags inside the text. Or, some part of the text looks like the start of an XML tag, and it is confusing SAPI. If you don't want to use XML tags, remove the symbols '<' and '>' from the text (or replace them by words 'less than' and 'greater than').

Software Installation

How can I make a silent installation of Balabolka?

To install Balabolka in silent mode without dialogs you may use a silent installation. A silent installation is available by using -silent command-line switch.

My computer contains two sound cards. How can I choose an audio device for text-to-speech playback?

You may select Speech in Control Panel of Windows and click the Audio Output button in the Speech Properties dialog box. Also, Balabolka contains the main menu item 'Options | Audio Output'.

Software Usage

I open a DjVu file, but the program doesn't show any text. What is wrong?

DjVu format was designed to store scanned documents. A DjVu file contains images of pages for books, magazines, etc. Also, DjVu can contain an OCR text layer. Balabolka can extract data from a text layer of DjVu only. If such layer is not available, the only way to get text is to use a text recognition system (for example, FineReader).

How can I remove dashes in the beginning of paragraphs?

You should use the main menu item 'Edit | Replace'. Type ^p— in the Find what box and ^p in the Replace with box. The program allows to use most of special codes from Microsoft Word:

^p: Paragraph mark
^t: Tab character
^nnn: ASCII character (where nnn is the character code)
^0nnn: ANSI character (where 0 is zero and nnn is the character code)
^Unnnnn: Unicode character (where nnnnn is the character code)
^+: Em dash ( — )
^=: En dash ( – )
^^: Caret character
^s: Nonbreaking space
^?: Any character (in the Find what box only)
^#: Any digit (in the Find what box only)
^$: Any letter (in the Find what box only)
^c: Microsoft Windows Clipboard contents (in the Replace with<