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Oct 20, 2010 - The other posts are: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality. In our experience, the really good voices like Paul and Heather do quite. For more info about SAPI and its markup language, download sapi.chm from here.

I have recently started listening to my books and papers, rather than reading them. This frees me up to do other things while I listen, such as cook, take a bath or do some tidying up.

It also gives my eyes a well needed break from staring at a computer screen or paper., I am using the TechDis Jess voice to provide audio files of the commentary, as an alternative to reading. I have had to tweak some of the text – for example, UCL needs to be written with spaces between each letter in order for Jess to pronounce each letter individually and I needed to add a hyphen to CMALT (C-MALT) for it to be pronounced correctly. But for the most part I can leave the text much as it is typed. Crysis 3 english language pack.7z. I then run it through a free, open source software called Balabolka to produce an audio file that participants on the course can download and listen to. TechDis Jess and other UK voices (including Scottish and Welsh options) are available from.

Balabolka is available from:. Listen to a sample: *Staff and learners studying at England’s UK and FE institutions can download the voices free of charge and those at Scottish and Welsh institutions can download local voices.

Embed this Program Add this Program to your website by copying the code below. Preview Preview. Balabolka allows you to save text as WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA.

It can also read the clipboard content and view text from documents saved as DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF or RTF files. It will automatically detect any TTS voices you have installed on your computer and, of course, you can download more voices, both free and paid, from the internet. It’s worth taking your time to check out all of Balabolka’s options. It’s really useful for file management, even allowing you to split and convert documents. It also has a timer, so you can set it to read before bedtime, for example, and can completely be controlled by hotkeys. There are bunches more – the options that will interest you will surely depend on what you intend to use Balabolka for. The quality of the speech produced by Balabolka varies greatly, but you can have a major influence by picking the reading voice carefully and tweaking the settings so that you deal with pauses, speed and unusual words in the most efficient way.

While Balabolka’s not perfect, it’s very good, and in many cases is just as good, if not better, than similar paid apps. Balabolka is a seriously flexible and entirely free text-to-speech engine. Balabolka supports the following formats Text: TXT, DOC, DOCX, FB2, PDF, HTML, RTF Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG Author's review.