{"id":15657,"date":"2010-10-17T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2010-10-17T01:05:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T19:35:20","slug":"how-to-convert-text-into-an-audio-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/how-to-convert-text-into-an-audio-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert Text into an Audio Clip – Tutorial & Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

The software which reads text present on a notepad or docs and save it in audio clip through a professional voice are called as Text To Speech Program. We had seen VozMe as a text to speech converter<\/a> which doesn’t even require a software and does all the work online. I must say Balabolka beats all the Top Online Text to Speech Mp3 Online tools<\/a> although this a software download application.<\/p>\n

Balabolka is one of the Text to Speech converter software which converts any written text documents into corresponding audio clip which can be saved and played. Balabolka is a Russian word which means chatterer. Balabolka is a free software which can used for lifetime and you require no license to run this on your PC.<\/p>\n

The basic purpose of Balabolka can be easily understood by this conversion map<\/p>\n

docs files into <\/strong>mp4 audio file
\nHTML File into <\/strong>wav audio clip
\nnotepad files into<\/strong> mp3 audio file
\nPDF files into <\/strong>m4a audio file
\nMS Word into <\/strong>ogg audio file<\/p>\n

Balabolka can read text from wide range of files including Microsoft Office Files like Word, web pages, text files, ebooks, rtf files and other various text media. The on-screen text can be saved as WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file format. This program can also run various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI), also allowing you to alter voice parameters including pitch and rate. By default Balabolka comes with SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 version of Speech Application Programming Interface.<\/p>\n

Balabolka is a portable software which does the work by running it from a USB drive provided that your computer has at least one voice installed. It uses Text-To-Speech engine to read text files and you can download it from Microsoft site. If you have TTS installed on your PC you will see a list of available voices on the main menu of Balabolka. Its prefers SAPI 5 as it has more voices available.<\/p>\n

The default voice is Microsoft Anna but the good thing is that its compatible with wide ranges of voice which can be bought at AT & T Natural Voices, Cepstral Voices, Acapela Group, NeoSpeech & Nuance which provide an excellent quality of natural speech. Or if you prefer to use free voices then you can download Microsoft voices of Mary, Sam and Mike, American English, British English from anywhere, but when you have it at Cross Plus A<\/a> why you need to visit other webpages.<\/p>\n

One notable thing in this software is that it implements the spell checking engine Command Spelter API (CSAPI) for checking the spellings and lot more than just spell check. It supports English, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian,Spanish, Russian & Ukrainian. Apart from above features this software includes features like<\/p>\n

Magnifier<\/strong> It includes an amazing square-shaped magnifier which provides amazing clarity of 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X zoom in option. This can be directly opened by a shortcut key known as F2.<\/p>\n

Case Converter<\/strong> Balabolka is amazingly a case converter software too. It can perform the following actions with case converting with shortcut keys too provided for each<\/p>\n