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Microsoft Text To Speech Voices Download

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. Select the Start button, and then select Settings. With the Windows Settings in view, select Time & Language. Go to Speech Studio to select a custom neural voice project, then follow the following steps to create a voice talent profile. Navigate to Text-to-Speech Custom Voice select a project Set up voice talent. Click Add voice talent. Next, to define voice characteristics, click Target scenario to be used. Text to Speech Add-Ins for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word. This software also includes text to speech and text to audio toolbars for Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer. The toolbars read the text on the Word document and web page aloud. With a click on the mouse button, you can convert the text to voice, or convert the text to audio files.

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).

(Last Updated: February 24, 2021) Text to Speech is a handy built-in feature in ActivePresenter that helps you create audio tracks right within the app. Apart from SAPI5-compatible voices installed on your computer, the latest version of ActivePresenter now gives you a chance to get more text-to-speech voices from the third parties, including Amazon Polly, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.


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Version:Changelog
Licence: Freeware
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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'.



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

Download Skin Pack (6.7 MB, 107 skins)



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

Speech
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):


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


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


Download

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

High Quality Commercial Voices:

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

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_').

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.


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:

Microsoft Text To Speech Voices Download Free


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:


Microsoft Text-to-speech Voices Windows 7 Free Download

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