Kidaroo Voice Text To Speech

This tool converts text-to-speech with any of Streamlabs' voices. You can use this to hear how your donation will sound on Twitch. Try SitePal's talking avatars with our free Text to Speech online demo. Our virtual characters read text aloud naturally in over 25 languages. Use our text to speach (txt 2 speech) tool to test speech voices.

About

Microsoft Sam TTS Generator is an online interface for part of Microsoft Speech API 4.0 which was released in 1998.

Usage

  1. Select your voice. Note that BonziBUDDY voice is actually an 'Adult Male #2' with a specific pitch and speed.
  2. Select your pitch and speed. All voices have lower and upper pitch and speed limits.
  3. Enter your text and press 'Say it'. Wait for generated audio appear in audio player. It should be done nearly instantly, as the interface tries to generate audio at x255 real-time.
  4. To save generated audio, right click on audio player and press 'Save audio as...'

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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 an audio file. The program can read the clipboard content, extract text from documents, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka supports text file formats: AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.

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).


Size: MB
Version:Changelog
Licence: Freeware
Operating System:
Portable Version: Download ( MB)
Portable Balabolka does not require an installation and can be run from a USB drive.
A computer must have at least one voice installed.
Command Line Utility: Download ( KB)
The utility contains no graphical user interface and works only from the command line.
The application handles various command line parameters to be able to read text aloud or save as an audio file.
Text Extract Utility: Download ( MB)
The program allows to extract text from the various types of files. The extracted text can be combined into one file or/and split into few files. The utility works from the command line, without displaying any user interface.

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


Speech

The program allows to use skins for customizing your window appearance.

Download Skin Pack (6.7 MB, 107 skins)


Kidaroo Voice Text To Speech


Balabolka can use the Microsoft Speech API 4.x/5.x voices and the Microsoft Speech Platform text-to-speech engines.


Voice
SAPI 4

All voices for SAPI 4 became obsolete; they are not recommended for installing anymore.
Use the fresh versions of speech engines.

RHVoice - free and open source speech synthesizer (it supports English, Esperanto, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Portuguese, Russian, Tatar and Ukrainian):


UkrVox - free Ukrainian voice created by Yaroslav Kozak (Lviv, Ukraine):

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Ekho - free TTS engine (it supports Cantonese, Mandarin and Zhaoan Hakka):


Hear2Read - free voices for Indic languages (Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu):


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

Kidaroo Voice Text To Speech

High Quality Commercial Voices:

  • Acapela Group (demo) - Infovox 4
  • Alfanum (demo)
  • Cepstral (demo)
  • IVONA (demo)
  • Nuance/Cerence (demo)
  • ReadSpeaker (demo)

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Microsoft Speech Platform

The Microsoft Speech Platform allows developers to build and deploy Text-to-Speech applications. The Microsoft Speech Platform consists of a Runtime, and Runtime Languages (engines for speech recognition and text-to-speech). There are separate Runtime Languages for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The version of the Runtime Languages must match the version of the Speech Platform that you installed.

Use the following steps to install the Microsoft Speech Platform (version 11.0):

  1. Download and install the Speech Platform Runtime
    (the file 'x86_SpeechPlatformRuntimeSpeechPlatformRuntime.msi').
  2. Download and install Runtime Languages for use with the Speech Platform
    (file names starting with 'MSSpeech_TTS_').
Kidaroo Voice Text To Speech

The Microsoft Speech Platform provides support for 26 languages for speech synthesis. XML tags can be used both for SAPI 5 and the Speech Platform.


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Balabolka can use Hunspell (hunspell.github.io). Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox.

Spell checker dictionaries for Windows:


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:


Kidaroo Voice Text To Speech Demo

Balabolka allows to use the spell checking built in operating system. The Spell Checking API is available beginning with the Windows 8.