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Balabolka Changelog

What's new in Balabolka 2.15.0.869

Apr 22, 2024
  • Fixed the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.868 (Apr 7, 2024)

  • Updated the lists of voices for Amazon Polly, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
  • Updated the using of OpenAI Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.867 (Apr 1, 2024)

  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • SpeechPro Text-To-Speech is available again.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.866 (Apr 1, 2024)

  • Disabled the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • Iciba Translate is available again.
  • Updated the list of voices for Acapela Cloud.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.865 (Mar 24, 2024)

  • Added the using of OpenAI Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o. and Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.864 (Feb 4, 2024)

  • Added the using of iTranslate and Lingvanex.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.863 (Jan 28, 2024)

  • The using of Iciba Translate service was disabled.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified), Italian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Anan, Massimo Castiglia and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.862 (Jan 4, 2024)

  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Croatian and Uzbek languages were updated (thanks to Petar Divić and Ulugbek Tolakov).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.861 (Dec 26, 2023)

  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit: added the support of API v3 (gRPC).
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.860 (Dec 23, 2023)

  • Added the command-line parameter for the opening file in Spritz-Reader.
  • Updated the list of voices for Yandex SpeechKit: added the Russian voices for API v3. Warning: the current version of Balabolka does not support the using of API-keys for API v3.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.859 (Dec 14, 2023)

  • Resources for Uzbek language were added (thanks to Ulugbek Tolakov).
  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.858 (Nov 26, 2023)

  • Updated the using of Viettel Text-To-Speech: the application can apply services from Viettel Group and Viettel AI.
  • Resources for Croatian language were updated (thanks to Petar Divić).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.857 (Nov 15, 2023)

  • Fixed the using of CereVoice Cloud.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Müller and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.856 (Oct 15, 2023)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Turkmen language were added (thanks to Nazar Mammedov).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.855 (Sep 24, 2023)

  • Fixed the subtitle converting for online TTS services.
  • Resources for Italian and Polish languages were updated (thanks to Massimo Castiglia and Fresta).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.854 (Sep 10, 2023)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.853 (Aug 25, 2023)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.852 (Aug 6, 2023)

  • Added the using of Acapela Cloud.
  • Added the ability to switch between online TTS services.
  • Fixed the using of SAPI 4 for foreign languages.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.851 (Jun 17, 2023)

  • Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud.
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.850 (Jun 10, 2023)

  • Added the settings for output audio sampling rate (Amazon Polly, CereVoice Cloud, Google Cloud).
  • Updated the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Spanish and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Fernando Gregoire and Fettah Pınar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.849 (Jun 3, 2023)

  • Added the using of CereVoice Cloud.
  • Added new settings for Microsoft Azure (the button "Settings").
  • Fixed the subtitle converting.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.848 (May 27, 2023)

  • Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure.
  • Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Adaptech s.r.o., Fernando Gregoire and Fettah Pınar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.847 (May 21, 2023)

  • Added the option "Highlight named bookmarks" (the window "Font and Colors").
  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB files.
  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech: the Websocket protocol is supported for demo.
  • Updated the list of voices for Amazon Polly.
  • Updated the Spritz-Reader.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.846 (Apr 30, 2023)

  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.845 (Apr 23, 2023)

  • Fixed the using of SpeechPro TTS, Yandex SpeechKit and Youdao TTS.
  • Updated the list of voices for Youdao Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated (thanks to Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.844 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • Updated the list of voices for IBM Watson Text-To-Speech. The neural voices have been removed since March 31, 2023.
  • Fixed the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech.
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.843 (Apr 2, 2023)

  • Updated the using of Naver Text-To-Speech.
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.842 (Mar 25, 2023)

  • Added the using of VK Cloud Voice.
  • Small improvements.
  • Disabled the using of FPT.AI Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.841 (Mar 17, 2023)

  • Fixed the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Italian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Paolo A. Lopiano and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.840 (Mar 11, 2023)

  • Fixed the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fettah Pınar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.839 (Mar 2, 2023)

  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud.
  • Resources for Czech and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o.).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.838 (Feb 26, 2023)

  • Baidu Translate is available again.
  • Fixed the using of Baidu Text-To-Speech.
  • Fixed the using of FPT.AI Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.837 (Feb 19, 2023)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.836 (Feb 12, 2023)

  • Added the global hotkey to turn on/off Clipboard Watch.
  • Updated the list of voices for Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.835 (Feb 5, 2023)

  • Fixed the text extracting for DOCX files.
  • Updated the list of voices for Microsoft Azure.
  • Updated the list of voices for Yandex SpeechKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.834 (Jan 31, 2023)

  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the using of Aspell.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.833 (Jan 13, 2023)

  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Updated the Clipboard Watch.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.832 (Dec 11, 2022)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB files.
  • The option "Pin to Taskbar" removed from the installer.
  • Updated the text splitting.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, German, Slovak and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Adaptech s.r.o., Regine Müller and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.831 (Dec 4, 2022)

  • Added the using of SaluteSpeech.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.830 (Nov 26, 2022)

  • Added the using of Viettel Text-To-Speech.
  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Disabled the using of Tinkoff VoiceKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.829 (Nov 13, 2022)

  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.828 (Oct 16, 2022)

  • Fixed the using of Baidu Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.827 (Oct 10, 2022)

  • Fixed the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.826 (Oct 2, 2022)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified), Czech and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Anan and Adaptech s.r.o.).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.825 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB and LIT files.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the drag-and-drop support.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.824 (Aug 14, 2022)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Jožef Gregorc and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.823 (Jul 30, 2022)

  • Fixed the using of PROMT.One.
  • Updated the translation of subtitles.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.822 (Jul 24, 2022)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Jožef Gregorc and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.821 (Jul 4, 2022)

  • Fixed the using of Naver Text-To-Speech.
  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.821 (Jul 3, 2022)

  • Fixed the using of Naver Text-To-Speech.
  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.820 (Jun 26, 2022)

  • Added the new option for the Clipboard Watch.
  • Added the global hotkey to place cursor at the beginning of text.
  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.819 (Jun 11, 2022)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Slovak and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Anan, Adaptech s.r.o. and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.818 (May 4, 2022)

  • Added the using of FPT.AI Text-To-Speech.
  • Fixed the YouTube subtitles downloading.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for German and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Regine Müller and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.817 (Apr 20, 2022)

  • Fixed the audio file saving for online text-to-speech services.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and French languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Michel Such).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.816 (Apr 17, 2022)

  • Added the using of Tinkoff VoiceKit.
  • Small improvements.
  • Disabled the using of VS Robotics Text-To-Speech.
  • The utility FFmpeg is used as a temporary solution.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.815 (Apr 2, 2022)

  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.814 (Mar 26, 2022)

  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Spanish language were updated (thanks to Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.813 (Mar 13, 2022)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Adaptech s.r.o.).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.812 (Feb 19, 2022)

  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.810 (Jan 17, 2022)

  • Added the option "Length of pauses between sentences" for the Microsoft Azure.
  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.809 (Jan 6, 2022)

  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.808 (Dec 5, 2021)

  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Portuguese language were updated (thanks to Miguel Simões).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.807 (Nov 27, 2021)

  • Standard voices have been removed from the Microsoft Azure voices list: they are no longer supported after August 31, 2021.
  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Anan and Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.806 (Nov 21, 2021)

  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.805 (Nov 14, 2021)

  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Spanish language were updated (thanks to Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.804 (Oct 30, 2021)

  • Updated the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.803 (Oct 24, 2021)

  • Fixed the SSML using for Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Adaptech s.r.o.).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.802 (Oct 6, 2021)

  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the option "Create an audiobook file with chapters" in the windows "Split and Convert to Audio Files" and "Batch File Converter": the option is available for MP3 format. The application can create MP3 files with ID3 tags for chapters.
  • Updated menu icons.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, German and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.801 (Sep 26, 2021)

  • The using of translation services was improved.
  • If online TTS service cannot pronounce the current sentence and returns no audio data, empty data will be replaced by silence.
  • Added new settings for the Clipboard Watch.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.800 (Sep 16, 2021)

  • Added the activity log viewer (the main menu item "View Log Messages")
  • Added the option "Play audio file when done" for online text-to-speech services
  • Added the drag-and-drop support for the small floating window
  • Fixed the using of PROMPT.One
  • Fixed the floating window
  • Updated the converting to MP3 format: the bitrate value is not used for VBR anymore
  • Resources for Czech and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o.)

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.799 (Sep 12, 2021)

  • Updated the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech and Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Müller and Fernando Greg

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.798 (Sep 4, 2021)

  • Added the settings for sound files (the window "Audio Files", the tab "Sounds").
  • Added the setting "Automatically increase the speech rate to fit time intervals" for online text-to-speech services.
  • Updated the installer of Balabolka.
  • Resources for German and Hungarian languages were updated (thanks to Regine Müller and Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.797 (Aug 23, 2021)

  • Added the using of VS Robotics Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).
  • Fixed the storing of named bookmarks.
  • Updated the text selection during reading aloud (when rules for pronunciation correction are applied).
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.796 (Aug 19, 2021)

  • Added the reading of sentences for "Text Echo" (the window "Settings", the tab "General").
  • Added the button "Open All Translations" to the window for translation services.
  • Added the option "Change application font" (the window "Settings", the tab "View").
  • Updated the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • If the translation window contains data from SRT file, it will be translated preserving formatting.
  • Fixed the problem with skins.
  • Resources for German, Serbian (Latin), Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.795 (Aug 8, 2021)

  • Added the using of the Sogou translation service.
  • Decreased duration of pauses between sentences for Google Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Adaptech s.r.o. and Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.793 (Jul 25, 2021)

  • Added the using of IBM Watson Language Translator and PROMPT.One.
  • Added the button "Extract Text and Save as Text Files" to the "Batch File Converter" window.
  • Fixed the application minimizing when the window for online text-to-speech services is opened.
  • Updated the using of the Baidu Translate service.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.792 (Jul 19, 2021)

  • Updated the using of Amazon Polly.
  • Improved the drag-and-drop support for text files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.791 (Jul 10, 2021)

  • Added the using of Microsoft Azure Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).
  • Fixed the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.790 (Jul 4, 2021)

  • Added the option "Show the whole sentence" to the editor of homographs (the tab "Find in Text").
  • Fixed the using of Naver Text-To-Speech.
  • Fixed the using of Microsoft Translator.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.789 (Jun 19, 2021)

  • Fixed the using of online TTS services.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.788 (Jun 18, 2021)

  • Added the using of Amazon Polly (for testing purposes only).
  • Updated the list of voices for Google Cloud Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Polish and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Martin Koziol and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.787 (Jun 10, 2021)

  • Added the using of the Reverso translation service.
  • Added the option "Play Sound" for the Clipboard Watch.
  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.786 (Jun 1, 2021)

  • Fixed the using of the translation services.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.785 (May 26, 2021)

  • Added the option "Use Aero Snap in Windows 10". (Aero Snap conflicts with minimizing/restoring of the application.)
  • Fixed the using of external audio files (audio clips).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.784 (May 24, 2021)

  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Italian languages were updated (thanks to Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.783 (May 13, 2021)

  • Updated the audio file saving.
  • Updated the subtitle converting.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.782 (May 6, 2021)

  • Added the option "Split text into paragraphs" for LRC files (the window "Audio Files", the tab "Subtitles"). By default the application splits text into sentences.
  • Fixed the application minimizing and restoring.
  • Fixed the subtitle creating.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Adaptech s.r.o., Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.781 (Apr 16, 2021)

  • Added settings for table extracting for DOCX/FB2/FB3 files (the window "Text Import Settings", the tab "Text Extracting").
  • Updated the text extracting for DOCX/FB2/FB3/HTML/ODT files.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Anan and Fettah Pınar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.780 (Apr 11, 2021)

  • Small improvements.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.779 (Apr 8, 2021)

  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the subtitle converting for SAPI 4.
  • The HTTP request methods were updated.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and German languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.778 (Mar 31, 2021)

  • Fixed the application minimizing and restoring.
  • Updated the using of Google Cloud Text-To-Speech.
  • The Opus audio files received from online TTS services will be converted to WAV files with the sample rate 24 KHz (instead of 48 KHz by default).
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.777 (Mar 25, 2021)

  • Added the using of Naver Tet-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).
  • Added the using of the Naver Papago translation service.
  • Added the option "Stereo" for Yande Speechkit (this will allow to use left and right channels alternatively for dialogues).
  • The using of Online TTS was disabled.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Chinese (Simplified) languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.776 (Mar 20, 2021)

  • Added the options "Insert blank lines after sentences" and "Insert blank lines after paragraphs" for LRC files ((the window "Audio Files", the tab "Subtitles").
  • Added the encoding detecting for LRC and SRT files (the window "Convert Subtitles to Audio Files").
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.775 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.774 (Mar 7, 2021)

  • Added the option for the LRC text saving inside the USLT tag (for AIMP audio player).
  • Fixed the YouTube subtitles downloading.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.773 (Feb 27, 2021)

  • Added the option "Restore splitted sentences" for the subtitle converting.
  • Fixed the finding of names in text.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.772 (Feb 22, 2021)

  • Added the volume setting for SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • Added the option "Format pasted text" (the window "Settings", the tab "Text").
  • Updated the using of Online Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.771 (Feb 12, 2021)

  • Added the volume setting for Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Finnish and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Veikko Muurikainen and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.770 (Feb 7, 2021)

  • Added the option "Fix pauses between sentences when Bluetooth headphones are used" (the window "Settings", the tab "Reading").
  • Resources for Czech and German languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o. and Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.769 (Jan 25, 2021)

  • Small improvements.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.767 (Jan 5, 2021)

  • Fixed the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for French language were updated (thanks to Michel Such).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.766 (Dec 27, 2020)

  • Added the 7-Zip archive support.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • The library UNRAR.DLL is not used.
  • Resources for Italian language were updated (thanks to Massimo Castiglia).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.765 (Dec 17, 2020)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Anan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.764 (Dec 13, 2020)

  • Fixed the using of online TTS services.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.763 (Dec 12, 2020)

  • Added the button "Add Folder" to the window "Extract Text from Files". It allows to search files in subfolders.
  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.762 (Dec 10, 2020)

  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit and Youdao Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.761 (Dec 8, 2020)

  • Fixed the using of Youdao Text-To-Speech.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German, Hungarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Müller, Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.760 (Nov 28, 2020)

  • Aded the option "Ignore URLs" (the window "Settings", the tab "Skip Text").
  • Fixed the subtitle creating.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese and Spanish (Simplified) languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.759 (Nov 22, 2020)

  • Added the main menu item "Subtitle Preview".
  • The using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech was updated.
  • If an archive file was opened in Balabolka, the application will suggest to use the name of the document inside the archive as a name of a new text file (not the name of the archive, as it was in the previous versions of Balabolka).
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated (thanks to Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.758 (Nov 15, 2020)

  • Fixed the using of Google Cloud Text-To-Speech.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.757 (Nov 9, 2020)

  • Fixed the text scrolling in the Spritz-Reader.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Czech and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o. and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.756 (Oct 10, 2020)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • The compability with screen readers was improved.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Hungarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.755 (Oct 5, 2020)

  • Added the syntax settings for tags PRON and PHONEME (the window "Settings", the tab "Rules").
  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German and Hungarian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Müller and Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.754 (Sep 26, 2020)

  • Added the option "Save current sentence to text file during reading aloud" (the window "Settings", the tab "Broadcasting"). It allows to display closed captions in streaming/broadcasting software.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated (thanks to Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.753 (Sep 17, 2020)

  • Fixed the minimized application launching.
  • Removed the options "Snap to the screen edge" and "Use Aero Snap in Windows 10".
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • The Ogg Vorbis and Opus encoders were updated.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.752 (Sep 13, 2020)

  • Added the "Insert Phonemes (IPA)" button and support of the PHONEME tag to the "Insert XML Tag" window. (The IVONA voices support the PHONEME tag and do not support the PRON tag.)
  • Added the support of IPA phonetic transcription for BXD dictionaries.
  • Fixed the syllable dividing for German language in the Spritz-Reader.
  • Removed the using of API-key for Yandex.Translate. (Yandex.Translate API was shut down on August 15, 2020.)
  • The LAME encoder was updated.
  • Resources for Czech and German languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o. and Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.751 (Aug 15, 2020)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Italian and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Massimo Castiglia and Çağrı Doğan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.750 (Aug 1, 2020)

  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the error in the "Find/Replace" dialog window (thanks to Tomáš Hromádka).
  • Fixed the Clipboard Watch.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.749 (Jul 18, 2020)

  • Named bookmarks are copied and pasted together with selected text in Balabolka.
  • Added the option "Copy selected text before to read clipboard aloud" (for the small floating window).
  • Added the option "Replace <angle brackets> by quotes" for the text formatting.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.748 (Jul 6, 2020)

  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Hungarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.747 (Jul 4, 2020)

  • Improved the finding of names in text.
  • Fixed the handling of situations when an audio output device was changed.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Chinese (Simplified) languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.746 (Jun 30, 2020)

  • Added the support of LRC format for subtitle converting.
  • Added the main menu item "Download Subtitles".
  • Added the option "Hide words from dictionaries (partial match)" to the window "Find Names in Text".
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.745 (May 31, 2020)

  • Added the support of WebVTT format for subtitle converting.
  • Fixed the using of the Baidu Translate service.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the command-line argument processing.
  • The summary extraction for FB2/FB3 files is turned off by default.
  • The main menu item "Reopen" reloads a document which is already opened in the application.
  • Resources for Slovenian language were updated (thanks to Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.744 (May 23, 2020)

  • Updated the text extracting for EPUB files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.743 (May 16, 2020)

  • [+] Universal tags can be used for reading of foreign words (the window "Add Tags to Text for Reading of Foreign Words").
  • [+] Universal tags can be used for reading of direct speech (the window "Add Tags to Text for Reading of Direct Speech").
  • [-] Fixed the using of SAPI 5.1 on Windows 7.
  • [*] Resources for Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o. and Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.742 (May 10, 2020)

  • Fixed the applying of rules from BXD-dictionaries.
  • The using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech was updated.
  • LibreOffice Writer is used for text extracting from old Microsoft Word 6.0/95 documents (if LibreOffice is installed).
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese and Serbian (Latin) languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Miguel Simões and Gradimir Kragić).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.741 (May 2, 2020)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Serbian (Latin), Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.740 (Apr 16, 2020)

  • Fixed the text extracting for FB2 files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.739 (Apr 12, 2020)

  • Added the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).
  • Resources for Hungarian, Italian and Serbian (Latin) languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.738 (Apr 5, 2020)

  • Added OPUS audio format support.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.737 (Apr 5, 2020)

  • Added the option "Find Roman numerals" to the window "Replace Numbers with Words".

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.736 (Mar 22, 2020)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Slovenian language were updated (thanks to Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.735 (Mar 13, 2020)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.734 (Mar 9, 2020)

  • Added the using of Google Cloud Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).
  • Added the main menu item "Repeat Forever".
  • Added new languages for the Google Translate service.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.733 (Mar 1, 2020)

  • Added the option "Text encoding in ID3v2 tags for MP3 files".
  • Added new languages for the Microsoft Translator service.
  • Fixed the using of the Baidu Translate service.
  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB files.
  • Fixed the applying of regular expressions to German documents.
  • Resources for Hungarian language were updated (thanks to Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.732 (Feb 23, 2020)

  • Fixed the using of BXT/BXZ files
  • Fixed the text selecting in the editor
  • Fixed small bugs
  • The LAME encoder was updated
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and French languages were updated (thanks to Anan and Michel Such)

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.731 (Feb 8, 2020)

  • Small improvements

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.730 (Feb 3, 2020)

  • Fixed the Clipboard Watch.
  • Fixed the global hotkey "Import Text from Clipboard".
  • Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.729 (Jan 25, 2020)

  • Added the options "Remove text in <angle brackets> except SAPI tags" and "Skip text in <angle brackets> except SAPI tags" (the window "Settings").
  • Added the global hotkey "Minimize/Restore Program".
  • Added the new options for the global hotkey "Import Text from Clipboard".
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.728 (Jan 8, 2020)

  • Added the document type detecting for files with unknown extensions.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.727 (Jan 3, 2020)

  • The reading of text can be started from the beginning of a sentence (the window "Settings", the tab "General").
  • Updated the loading of text files on the application startup.
  • Resources for Hungarian language were updated (thanks to Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.726 (Dec 29, 2019)

  • Added the universal tag {{Voice}} to change a voice and its properties.
  • Fixed the text extracting for Markdown files.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.725 (Dec 26, 2019)

  • Fixed the using of SAPI 5.1 on Windows XP.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Spanish language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.724 (Dec 21, 2019)

  • Added the text extracting for Markdown files (*.MD).
  • Fixed the modifying of audio output format settings.
  • Fixed the viewing of JPEG images from books.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.722 (Dec 7, 2019)

  • Fixed the ID3v2 tag adding for MP3 files.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.721 (Nov 21, 2019)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Hungarian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.720 (Nov 17, 2019)

  • Added the options to insert text into notes when the application extracts data from DOCX, FB2, FB3 and ODT files (the window "Text Import", the tab "Text Extracting").
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.719 (Nov 10, 2019)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Korean and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Park Sung-Wan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.718 (Nov 3, 2019)

  • The list of available voices was updated for Yandex SpeechKit.
  • Resources for French language were updated (thanks to Michel Such).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.717 (Oct 29, 2019)

  • If text was modified, a marker is added to the file name in the window caption.
  • Fixed the text formatting.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.716 (Oct 27, 2019)

  • The named bookmark window allows to select and delete more than one bookmark.
  • Fixed the updating of a named bookmark position when text is modified.
  • Fixed the support of high contrast modes in the operating system.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.715 (Oct 11, 2019)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Chinese (Simplified) languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.714 (Oct 11, 2019)

  • Fixed the "Undo" operation in the main window.
  • The LAME encoder was updated.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Hungarian, Spanish and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Zoltan Magyar, Fernando Gregoire and Çağrı Doğan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.713 (Sep 22, 2019)

  • Added the option "Use a custom folder to store temporary audio files".
  • Added the main menu item "Delete All".
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.713 (Sep 22, 2019)

  • Added the option "Use a custom folder to store temporary audio files".
  • Added the main menu item "Delete All".
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.712 (Sep 17, 2019)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB, HTML and MHT files.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.711 (Sep 8, 2019)

  • The using of Yandex Speechkit was updated.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.710 (Sep 1, 2019)

  • The using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech was updated.
  • Small improvements.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.709 (Aug 23, 2019)

  • Fixed the "Undo" operation in the main window.
  • The using of Yandex Speechkit was updated.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and French languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Michel Such).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.708 (Aug 2, 2019)

  • Microsoft Translator is available again (v3 is used now).
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Hungarian, Portuguese and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Zoltan Magyar, Miguel Simões and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.707 (Jul 28, 2019)

  • Added the main menu item "Split and Convert (Not Show Window)".
  • The LAME encoder was updated.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for German language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.706 (Jul 20, 2019)

  • Baidu Translate is available again (v2 is used now).
  • Added the support of an API-key for Yandex.Translate.
  • The using of Microsoft Translator and Bing TTS was disabled (free service was turned off by Microsoft).
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Spanish language were updated (thanks to Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.705 (Jul 6, 2019)

  • The LAME encoder was updated.
  • The using of Baidu Translate service was disabled (v1 was turned off by Baidu).
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Hungarian and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Zoltan Magyar and Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.704 (Jun 22, 2019)

  • Added the option "Hide tab area with filenames" for the full screen mode.
  • Added the using of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).
  • Added resources for Slovak language
  • Resources for Czech and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.703 (Jun 9, 2019)

  • Reduced the memory usage.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated (thanks to Anan)

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.702 (Jun 2, 2019)

  • Added the option "Press once to start reading then once to pause" for the global hotkey "Read Clipboard Aloud".
  • Added the main menu item "Delete".
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Çağrı Doğan)

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.701 (May 26, 2019)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French and Korean languages were updated (thanks to Anan, Jirí Fenz, Michel Such and Park Sung-Wan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.700 (May 16, 2019)

  • Added the using of Youdao Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.699 (May 13, 2019)

  • Fixed the audio file saving if the audio output device is absent.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Müller, Jožef Gregorc and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.698 (Apr 20, 2019)

  • [+] Added the setting for pauses between sentences in the Spritz-Reader.
  • [-] Removed the setting "Minimal Block Size" from text splitting.
  • [*] Updated the list of voices for Yandex SpeechKit.

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.697 (Apr 16, 2019)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Spanish language were updated (thanks to Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.696 (Apr 8, 2019)

  • The using of of custom encoders was fixed.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.695 (Apr 4, 2019)

  • Added the subtitle converting for online TTS services.
  • Fixed the subtitle converting for SMI files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Hungarian and Korean languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Jiří Fenz, Zoltan Magyar and Park Sung-Wan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.694 (Mar 31, 2019)

  • Added the popup menu items "Insert Audio Clip" and "Insert Silence" for online TTS services.
  • Resources for Czech, German and Portuguese languages were updated (thanks to Jiří Fenz, Regine Müller and Miguel Simões)

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.693 (Mar 25, 2019)

  • The compatibility with screen readers was improved.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.692 (Mar 23, 2019)

  • Added the button "Change language" for online TTS services.
  • Updated the text extracting for DOCX, CHM, EPUB, HTML, ODP, ODT and PPTX files.
  • Fixed the text extracting for CHM files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Hungarian, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Michel Such, Regine Müller, Zoltan Magyar, Jožef Gregorc and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.691 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Added the using of Baidu Translate.
  • Added the setting "Minimal Block Size" for text splitting. The value must be set as a number of characters (not as a number of kilobytes).
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Polish and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Fresta and Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.690 (Mar 4, 2019)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Park Sung-Wan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.689 (Mar 2, 2019)

  • Added the batch converting of text files to audio files by using of online TTS services.
  • The LAME encoder was updated.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Chinese (Simplified) languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.688 (Feb 24, 2019)

  • Added the setting "Launch Balabolka on Windows logon".
  • Added the settings to ignore text in brackets.
  • Added the setting to add a period if there is no punctuation at the end of the paragraph.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire)

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.687 (Feb 16, 2019)

  • Added the using of Baidu Text-To-Speech and Bing Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only).
  • Added the using of Microsoft Translator and Yandex.Translate.
  • Added the settings for alternation of original and translated text.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German, Korean and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Müller, Park Sung-Wan and Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.15.0.686 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Added support of the native format *.BXZ (ZIP-compressed Balabolka documents).
  • Added the text extracting for ODP files (OpenDocument Presentations).
  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the text extracting for PPT files.
  • Updated the text import settings: the built-in converter is always used for text extracting.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Hungarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.686 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Added support of the native format *.BXZ (ZIP-compressed Balabolka documents).
  • Added the text extracting for ODP files (OpenDocument Presentations).
  • Small improvements.
  • Updated the text extracting for PPT files.
  • Updated the text import settings: the built-in converter is always used for text extracting.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Hungarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.685 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Added the text extracting for PPT and PPTX files.
  • Added the LANG tag to change a language for Google TTS. For example: {{lang=en}}Here is an English text.
  • The encoding detecting for input text files was improved.
  • Fixed the editing of shortcuts for menu items.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Michel Such and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.684 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • The "Find/Replace" window was updated.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.683 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Arabic, Bulgarian and Korean languages were updated (thanks to Majid al-Asiri, Kostadin Kolev and Park Sung-Wan).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.682 (Dec 22, 2018)

  • Add the option "Remove text in round brackets" for the text formatting.
  • Fixed the compability with Safe Exam Browser.
  • Resources for Czech, Hungarian, German, Korean and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Jiří Fenz, Zoltan Magyar, Regine Müller, Park Sung-Wan and Çağrı Doğan).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.681 (Dec 9, 2018)

  • The application saves BXT files with the BOM header.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.680 (Dec 2, 2018)

  • Added the options to ignore comments (single-line and multiline).
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Michel Such, Jožef Gregorc and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.679 (Nov 18, 2018)

  • Added the option "Remove page numbers" for the text formatting.
  • Fixed the application exit error.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Hungarian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.678 (Nov 11, 2018)

  • Added the support of Online Text-To-Speech and Yandex SpeechKit (for testing purposes only).
  • Resources for Czech, German and Italian languages were updated (thanks to Jiří Fenz, Regine Müller and Massimo Castiglia).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.677 (Nov 3, 2018)

  • Updated the text splitting.

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.676 (Oct 22, 2018)

  • Updated the extracting of images from documents.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.675 (Oct 16, 2018)

  • The window "Replacement Statistics" was updated.
  • Fixed the applying of rules.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Slovenian language were updated (thanks to Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.674 (Oct 13, 2018)

  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the text extracting for EML files.

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.673 (Oct 9, 2018)

  • Updated the applying of rules.
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.672 (Oct 8, 2018)

  • Fixed the application exit error (on computers with the German regional settings of Windows).
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Hungarian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.671 (Oct 7, 2018)

  • Added the option "Apply rules for pronunciation correction" to the window "Extract Text from Files".
  • Updated the applying of rules for the menu item "View Modified Text".
  • Resources for Czech and German languages were updated (thanks to Jiří Fenz and Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.670 (Sep 23, 2018)

  • Fixed the text extracting for DjVu files.
  • Resources for Slovenian language were updated (thanks to Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.669 (Sep 10, 2018)

  • Updated the text splitting.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), French, Spanish and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Michel Such, Fernando Gregoire and Çağrı Doğan).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.668 (Sep 3, 2018)

  • Added the options for text extracting (the window "Text Import", the tab "Options").
  • Updated the text extracting for DOCX, FB2 and ODT files.
  • Added the Czech help file (thanks to Jiří Fenz).
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, German and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Jiří Fenz, Regine Müller and Jožef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.14.0.667 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Added the option "Ignore numbers" to the window "Add Tags to Text for Reading of Foreign Words" (to read numerical digits always by the default voice).
  • Updated the installer of Balabolka.
  • Updated the "Replace All" option in the "Replace" window.
  • Resources for Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Hungarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to MFM Dawdeh, Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.13.0.666 (Jul 30, 2018)

  • Added the option to fix pauses in audio files for subtitle converting. It the current voice does not fully support SAPI tags, another voice can be used to add pauses to audio files.
  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the text extracting for PDF files.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the saving of audio files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and German languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Regine Müller).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.665 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • Updated the option "Remove All XML Tags": if text is selected in the main window, the application will remove tags from the selected text only.

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.664 (Jul 19, 2018)

  • Updated the "Batch File Converter" window.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Zoltan Magyar, Massimo Castiglia, Fernando Gregoire and Çağrı Doğan).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.663 (Jul 9, 2018)

  • Added the option "Emulate keystroke CTRL+A before reading" for global hotkeys (the windows "Settings", the tab "Hotkeys").
  • Added the option "Ignore clipboard updates from applications" for Clipboard Watch (the windows "Settings", the tab "Clipboard").
  • Added the "Edit Text" window to edit long rules in the BXD dictionary editor.
  • Resources for German language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.661 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • Improved the code page detecting for plain text files.
  • Resources for Czech language were updated (thanks to Jiri Fenz).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.660 (Jun 4, 2018)

  • Added the support of the %Header% variable in the "Output Filename Pattern" box in the window "Split and Convert to Audio Files". The application will replace this variable by the name of the nearest bookmark (if text is split by named bookmarks).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.659 (May 28, 2018)

  • Updated the text extracting for AZW and MOBI files
  • Text formatting was improved

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.658 (May 20, 2018)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Updated the text extracting for PDF files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Çağrı Doğan).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.657 (May 20, 2018)

  • The multi-line modifier is specified by default for regular expressions.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, Hungarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Michel Such, Zoltan Magyar and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.656 (May 2, 2018)

  • Added the main menu items "Go to Previous Bookmark" and "Go to Next Bookmark".
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Mueller).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.655 (Apr 28, 2018)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Chinese (Simplified) languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Anan).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.654 (Apr 27, 2018)

  • Updated the windows "List of Used Rules" and "List of Homographs"
  • Updated the sequential numbering of blocks (when the application inserts a block number at the beginning/end of audio files)
  • Updated the text extracting for EPUB files
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.653 (Apr 22, 2018)

  • Added the new splitting method in the "File Splitter" window: split by table on contents. The application extracts chapters from a document to divide text.
  • Fixed the handling of situations when all audio output devices are turned off.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • If the named bookmark window is opened, the application selects the nearest bookmark to the text position.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and German languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Regine Mueller).

New in Balabolka 2.12.0.652 (Apr 15, 2018)

  • Added the new format of dictionaries for pronunciation correction. BXD-files combines the options of REX and DIC formats.
  • Added the option "Include notes inside text" for DOCX, FB2 and ODT documents (the window "Text Import").
  • Fixed the selecting of the audio output device in Windows 10 (for situations when the default audio output was changed).
  • Updated the text extracting for EPUB and FB2 files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Mueller, Zoltan Magyar, Jozef Gregorc and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.651 (Apr 1, 2018)

  • Added the option "Extract summary from e-book" for FB2 documents (the window "Text Import").
  • Updated the text extracting for FB2 files.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and German languages were updated (thanks to Anan and Regine Mueller).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.650 (Mar 24, 2018)

  • Added the text extracting for FB2.ZIP and FBZ files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Jozef Gregorc and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.649 (Mar 18, 2018)

  • Added the option "Fix letter-spacing" for the text formatting (for example: s p a c e, _w_o_r_d).
  • Resources for French and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Michel Such and Jozef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.648 (Feb 25, 2018)

  • Added the new feature: use the double-click on the document's tab to scroll to the top of the text. Double-clicking the tab again will bring back to where you were before.
  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the converting subtitles to audio files for IVONA voices (when the speech rate is not equal to 0). Unfortunately I still got no answer about fixing this problem from the IVONA support.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified) and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.647 (Feb 18, 2018)

  • Added the option "Create an audiobook file with chapters (for MPEG-4 only)" to the "Batch File Converter" window.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Hungarian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Zoltan Magyar).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.646 (Feb 10, 2018)

  • Added the "Insert Phonemes" button to the editor window for pronunciation correction. It will allow to define phonemes for the XML PRON tag.
  • Added the "Insert Phonemes" button and support of the PRON tag to the "Insert XML Tag" window.
  • Resources for German, Italian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Regine Mueller, Massimo Castiglia and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.644 (Jan 14, 2018)

  • Fixed the silent unistallation of Balabolka.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Italian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Massimo Castiglia and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.643 (Jan 4, 2018)

  • Added the setting for action after processing of all files in "Extract Text from Files" window
  • Small improvements
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Slovenian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Michel Such and Jozef Gregorc)

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.642 (Dec 9, 2017)

  • Added the option "Allow to use Spell Checking API for Windows 8/10". Since Windows 8, the spell checking is built-in to the operating system. But it works slow, and its using will slow down the application start.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Slovenian language were updated (thanks to Jozef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.641 (Nov 26, 2017)

  • The converting of subtitles to audio files was improved.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), French and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.640 (Nov 26, 2017)

  • Added the main menu items "Insert XML Tag" and "Remove All XML Tags".
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), German, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.639 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • Added the option "Area of use" for audio file creating actions (the windows "Settings", the tab "Pauses").
  • Updated the text extracting for EPUB and MHT files.
  • Fixed the text extracting for DOCX files.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Slovenian language were updated (thanks to Jozef Gregorc).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.638 (Oct 1, 2017)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EML files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and French languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.637 (Sep 27, 2017)

  • Added the text extracting for XLS, XLSX and ODS files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.636 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • Added the text extracting for EML (E-mail messages) files
  • Fixed small bugs
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), French and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Anan, Michel Such and Fernando Gregoire)

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.635 (Sep 17, 2017)

  • Added the option "Use Aero Snap in Windows 10" (the window "Settings", the tab "View").
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.634 (Sep 15, 2017)

  • Fixed the custom text import
  • The library UNRAR.DLL was updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.633 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB files
  • Resources for Spanish language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.632 (Jul 29, 2017)

  • Added the option "Minimize to tray when closing the program" (the window "Settings", the tab "View")
  • Fixed the support of ClearType
  • Resources for German and Turkish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.631 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Hungarian and Portuguese languages were updated (thanks to Zoltan Magyar and Angelo Abrantes).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.630 (Jun 18, 2017)

  • The panel of dictionaries was updated (for the compability with screen readers).
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.629 (Jun 10, 2017)

  • Added resources for Armenian language
  • Fixed the shell extension library.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Slovenian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.628 (May 15, 2017)

  • Added the support of the USLT tag for saving of unsynchronized text in MP3 files.
  • Added the option "Pin to taskbar" to the installer.
  • Resources for Italian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Massimo Castiglia and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.627 (Apr 30, 2017)

  • Added the support of the %FullText% variable in ID3 tags. The variable will be replaced by the content of a text file.
  • Resources for Filipino language were updated (thanks to William Nabaza).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.626 (Apr 24, 2017)

  • Fixed the drag-and-drop support for text files.
  • Small improvements.
  • Added resources for Catalan language.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.625 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Added the drag-and-drop support for the text editor.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.624 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added the support of Spell Checking API for Windows 8 and above
  • Fixed the creating of LRC and SRT files
  • Resources for Czech language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.623 (Mar 21, 2017)

  • Added resources for Filipino language.
  • Small improvements.
  • Uploaded the Hunspell dictionaries for Filipino, Kazakh, Korean and Turkish languages.
  • Resources for French and Spanish languages were updated.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.622 (Feb 11, 2017)

  • Added the support of new operators for regular expresions (U, L, E, u, l).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.621 (Feb 5, 2017)

  • Fixed the creating of LRC and SRT files.
  • Updated the extracting of text and images from LIT files.
  • Added the Italian help file (thanks to Massimo Castiglia).
  • Resources for Hungarian and Italian languages were updated (thanks to Zoltan Magyar and Massimo Castiglia).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.620 (Jan 29, 2017)

  • Fixed the saving of text files with the ANSI encoding.
  • Updated the text extracting for DjVu files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.619 (Jan 22, 2017)

  • Added the support of the %FileName% variable in the "Output Filename Pattern" box in the window "Split and Convert to Audio Files". The application will replace this variable by the text filename.
  • The window "Split and Convert to Audio Files" was updated.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.618 (Jan 22, 2017)

  • Added the support of the %Number% variable in the "Base Output Filename" box in the window "Split and Convert to Audio Files". Use this variable to change the position of the sequence number inside the output filename.
  • Added the option "Display close button on all tabs" (the window "Settings",
  • the tab "View").

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.617 (Jan 2, 2017)

  • Fixed the support of Asian languages for the text editor.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Slovenian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.616 (Nov 27, 2016)

  • Added the support of the IFilter interface for the custom text import
  • Added the main menu item "Check for Update"
  • Added the setting "Check for update on Balabolka startup"
  • Fixed small bugs
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.615 (Nov 19, 2016)

  • Added the creating of SRT files for text synchronized audiobooks.
  • Resources for French language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.614 (Nov 13, 2016)

  • Added the main menu item "Save All".
  • Uploaded the Hunspell dictionaries for Bosnian, Hindi, Icelandic and
  • Serbian languages.
  • Added the spell check support for Hindi language.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.613 (Nov 6, 2016)

  • Added the text extracting for PDB (Plucker) files
  • Added the image extracting for PDB (eReader) books
  • Added the support of PNM, SVG and TIFF formats for the image viewer
  • The editor window for pronunciation correction can be resized
  • Removed the main menu item "Repeat Text"
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.612 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • Added the text extracting for PalmDoc books (*.PDB).
  • The supported formats of PDB: PalmDOC, Palm Reader/eReader, zTXT.
  • Added the support of Psion/EPOC books (*.TCR).
  • Fixed the text extracting for AZW3 files.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated (thanks to
  • Kostadin Kolev and Fernando Gregoire).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.611 (Oct 15, 2016)

  • Added the support of Corel WordPerfect documents (*.WPD).

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.610 (Oct 11, 2016)

  • Fixed the text extracting for MHTML files.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.609 (Oct 7, 2016)

  • Added support of the Ukrainain language to the Google Text-To-Speech window.
  • Small improvements.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.608 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Realized the processing of the default audio output defice changing.
  • Resources for Portuguese (Brazil) language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.607 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.606 (Jul 31, 2016)

  • Added the main menu item "Read All Opened Documents". If the setting is active, the application will read the opened documents one by one.
  • Small improvements.
  • The main menu items were rearranged. The new submenu "Voice" was added.
  • Resources for Hungarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.605 (Jul 16, 2016)

  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the text extracting for DOCX and ODT files.
  • Resources for Slovenian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.604 (Jul 16, 2016)

  • Added the support of the %FirstLine% variable in the "Base Output Filename" box in the window "Split and Convert to Audio Files". The application will replace this variable by the first line of each text part.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), French, Portuguese (Brazil), Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.603 (May 29, 2016)

  • Added the using of the left mouse button to stop the reading aloud.
  • Added the main menu items "Skip to Next Sentence" and "Skip to Previous Sentence".
  • Added the menu items "Skip to Next Sentence" and "Skip to Previous Sentence" to the Spritz-Reader window.
  • Removed the main menu items "Skip to Next Line" and "Skip to Previous Line".

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.602 (May 23, 2016)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Spanish and Turkish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.601 (Apr 24, 2016)

  • Added the support of regular expressions for the menu items "Find" and
  • "Replace" (for more information, see the chapter "Frequently Asked Questions"
  • in the help file)
  • Fixed the silent installation of Balabolka
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.600 (Mar 13, 2016)

  • Added the support of URLs to the "Open" dialog box.
  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the text extracting for HTML files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.599 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • Added the option "Split and Convert to Audio Files" to the Batch File Converter.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for German and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.598 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • Google Text-To-Speech is used again.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.597 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • Other online TTS services are used instead of Google Text-To-Speech
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.596 (Feb 14, 2016)

  • Improved the character encoding detection for text files.
  • Google Translate service is used instead of the Microsoft Translator.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.595 (Jan 17, 2016)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Improved the text extracting for PDF files.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.594 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • Fixed the text extracting for HTML files
  • Resources for Arabic and Slovenian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.593 (Dec 6, 2015)

  • Added resources for Catalan language
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.592 (Nov 30, 2015)

  • Added the check box "Create subfolder" to the "Split and Convert to Audio Files" window.
  • Small improvements.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.590 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Microsoft Translator is used instead of the Google Translate service.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.589 (Oct 12, 2015)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Hungarian and Turkish languages were updated.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.588 (Sep 21, 2015)

  • Fixed the image viewer
  • The menu items "Skip to Next Paragraph" and "Skip to Previous Paragraph" "Skip to Next Line" and "Skip to Previous Line" were interchanged
  • Resources for Spanish language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.587 (Aug 9, 2015)

  • Fixed the access to the Google TTS service.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.586 (Aug 6, 2015)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB files.
  • Resources for French and Slovenian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.585 (Jul 28, 2015)

  • Fixed the access to the Google Translate service
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.584 (Jul 21, 2015)

  • Added the main menu items "Add Current Line as Named Bookmark" and "Create Table of Contents".
  • Updated the text split method: if text block size is defined, this value will be used as a limit, not as a target. The program will split text into equal parts.
  • Resources for German and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.583 (Jul 6, 2015)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for German language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.582 (Jun 11, 2015)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for French language were updated.

New in Balabolka 2.11.0.581 (Jun 8, 2015)

  • Added the main menu item "Find Previous".
  • Small improvements.
  • Removed the main menu item "Magnifier".
  • Updated the applying of rules from REX-dictionaries.
  • The set of skins was fully updated (old skins will not work correctly on Windows 10).
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Slovenian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.580 (May 12, 2015)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Added the option to prevent multiple instances of Balabolka.
  • Resources for German language were updated.

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.579 (May 12, 2015)

  • Added the removing of soft hyphens to the text formatting.

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.578 (Mar 31, 2015)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Persian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.577 (Jan 12, 2015)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Added resources for Persian language
  • Added resources for Slovenian language
  • Resources for Croatian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.576 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Arabic and Turkish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.575 (Oct 11, 2014)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.574 (Sep 28, 2014)

  • Fixed the text extracting for CHM files.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Romanian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.573 (Sep 1, 2014)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Hungarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.572 (Jul 21, 2014)

  • Added the support of new languages to Spritz-Reader.
  • Resources for French and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.571 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • The maximal speed for Spritz-Reader was increased up to 1000 wpm.
  • Resources for Turkish language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.570 (Jun 5, 2014)

  • Fixed the error in the using of global hotkeys.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.569 (May 26, 2014)

  • Added the button "Delete with Text" to the window "Go to Named Bookmark".
  • Spritz-Reader was improved.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.10.0.568 (May 18, 2014)

  • Added the support of Spritz technology for high-speed reading.
  • Resources for German, Romanian and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.9.0.567 (Apr 8, 2014)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Added the Spanish help file

New in Balabolka 2.9.0.566 (Mar 30, 2014)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Spanish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.9.0.565 (Feb 24, 2014)

  • Added the item "Edit with Notepad" to the context menu of the dictionaries' panel.
  • Added resources for Croatian language (thanks to Gordan Radic).
  • Resources for Serbian (Latin) language were updated (thanks to Aleksandar Duric).

New in Balabolka 2.9.0.564 (Jan 27, 2014)

  • A table of contents will be imported as named bookmarks (for FB2 files).
  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB files.
  • Resources for German language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.9.0.563 (Jan 20, 2014)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated.

New in Balabolka 2.9.0.562 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for French and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.561 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • Improved the text extracting for DOCX and ODT files: the extracting of footnotes and endnotes was added.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Italian and Romanian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.560 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • The panel of voice settings was updated.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for French, German, Turkish and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.559 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • Added the proxy server settings for Google Translate and Google TTS.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.558 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • Added the main menu item "Balabolka Home Page".
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.557 (Aug 25, 2013)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Italian and Romanian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.556 (Aug 18, 2013)

  • Added the ability to receive data from STDIN for custom text import
  • The library DELZIP190.DLL is not used

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.555 (Aug 14, 2013)

  • Updated the window "List of Spelling Errors".
  • Updated the text extracting from PDF files.

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.554 (Aug 5, 2013)

  • Fixed the text extracting for EPUB and PDF files.

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.553 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • Updated the subtitle converter.
  • Resources for Ukrainian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.552 (Jul 28, 2013)

  • Updated the text extracting from PDF files
  • Resources for Bulgarian and French languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.8.0.551 (Jul 22, 2013)

  • Added the main menu item "Subtitle Converter". The program will convert
  • text files with subtitles to audio files. SRT, SSA/ASS and SMI formats
  • are supported.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, German and Turkish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.550 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • Added the main menu item "Text Import". The new window contains
  • settings for custom text import, by using of external programs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.549 (Jun 21, 2013)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Italian and Romanian language were updated (thanks to Fabio Boccaletti and Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu).

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.548 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Creating of new document tab by double clicking on empty tab area.
  • Closing of tab by middle button clicking.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.547 (May 27, 2013)

  • Added the option "Never prompt to save modified text" (the window "Settings", the tab "Text").
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.546 (May 2, 2013)

  • Added the option "Open folder in Windows Explorer when saving of audio file is finished" to the window "Audio Files"
  • Small improvements
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, German and Turkish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.545 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Added the main menu items "Increase Font Size" and "Decrease Font Size".
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Korean language were updated.

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.544 (Apr 6, 2013)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, Italian, Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.7.0.543 (Mar 24, 2013)

  • Added the options "Insert silence" and "Insert audio clip" (the window "Settings", the tab "Pauses").
  • The button "Audio Output" was replaced by the main menu item "Options | Audio Output".
  • The tab "Buttons" at the window "Settings" was transformed to the window "Buttons".
  • Resources for Arabic, Bulgarian, French and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.542 (Mar 17, 2013)

  • Added the main menu items "Skip to Next Line" and "Skip to Previous Line".
  • Added the list of French homographs.
  • Resources for French and Turkish languages were updated.

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.541 (Mar 13, 2013)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German and Italian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.540 (Mar 4, 2013)

  • The text extract utility is available for downloading of the web-site.
  • Added the support of Kindle Format 8 (*.AZW3).
  • Added resources for Greek language
  • Resources for Bulgarian and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.539 (Feb 27, 2013)

  • The console application is available for downloading of the web-site
  • Small improvements
  • Resources for German language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.538 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Polish, Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.537 (Jan 20, 2013)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French and Italian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.536 (Jan 8, 2013)

  • Added the global hotkeys "Import Text from Clipboard" and "Change Voice".
  • Added resources for Serbian (Cyrillic) language.
  • Resources for German and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.535 (Dec 14, 2012)

  • Fixed the problem with skins
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.6.0.534 (Dec 13, 2012)

  • Added the using of custom encoders (the window "Audio Files", the tab "Options/Custom Encoders").
  • A silent installation is available by using "-silent" command-line switch.
  • New settings for Clipboard Watch were added.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Support of Windows 7/8 was improved.
  • Resources for German language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.533 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Fixed the extracting of text from EPUB files
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.532 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Japanese language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.531 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • Fixed the problem with Windows Media Audio
  • Fixed the problem with spell-checkers

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.530 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Polish and Portuguese (Brazil) languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.529 (Aug 27, 2012)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Serbian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.528 (Aug 21, 2012)

  • Added resources for Serbian (Latin) language
  • Resources for Arabic, Bulgarian, French, Italian, Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.527 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Arabic, Bulgarian, Japanese, Turkish and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.526 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • Added the option "Clipboard Watch" to the window "Settings", the tab "Clipboard".
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for German, Italian and Romanian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.525 (May 7, 2012)

  • Small improvements.
  • The French help file was updated
  • Resources for Japanese language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.524 (Apr 30, 2012)

  • The main window and the small floating window snap to the screen borders or
  • the borders of other windows.
  • Resources for Ukrainian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.523 (Apr 25, 2012)

  • The "fast" method of rules' application is not used anymore.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, German and Korean languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.5.0.522 (Apr 23, 2012)

  • Added the main menu item "Tools | Save Audio File (Google TTS)".
  • The program saves text as audio file by using Google Text-To-Speech service.
  • The voices for more than 30 languages are available.
  • Small improvements.
  • Added resources for Finnish language
  • Resources for Italian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.4.0.521 (Apr 9, 2012)

  • Added the reading of Microsoft Reader files (*.LIT).
  • Resources for Bulgarian and French languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.4.0.520 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Arabic, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Romanian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.4.0.519 (Mar 26, 2012)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Ukrainian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.4.0.518 (Mar 21, 2012)

  • Added the reading of Mobipocket/Kindle files (*.AZW, *.MOBI, *.PRC).
  • The "fast" method of rules' application was updated (thanks to Venedikt Lee).
  • The help files are stored in the "Help" subfolder.
  • Resources for French and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.3.0.516 (Jan 9, 2012)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Arabic and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.3.0.515 (Dec 28, 2011)

  • The special codes can be used in the windows "Find" and "Replace" (the same codes as in Microsoft Word).
  • Resources for Italian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.3.0.514 (Dec 11, 2011)

  • Added resources for Turkish language

New in Balabolka 2.3.0.513 (Nov 28, 2011)

  • Added the button "Split" to the window "Split and Convert to Audio Files".
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.3.0.512 (Nov 7, 2011)

  • Added the creating of playlists for audio files (the window "Audio Files", the tab "Playlist"). M3U, PLS, WPL and XSPF formats are supported.
  • Resources for German and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.3.0.511 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.3.0.510 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Added the support of Microsoft Speech Platform
  • The version 1.xx of Balabolka is not supported anymore.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German, Italian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.509 (Oct 16, 2011)

  • Added the option "Use system default voice" to the window "Settings", the tab "Voice".
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for French and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.508 (Oct 3, 2011)

  • The window "Translate" was updated. Google Translate API is not used anymore (because it will be available as a paid service on December 1, 2011). Now the program uses the Google Translate service directly.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.507 (Sep 12, 2011)

  • New options were added to the windows "Timer" and "Extract Text from Files".
  • Small improvements.
  • The license agreement was updated.
  • Resources for German language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.506 (Aug 29, 2011)

  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Portuguese (Brazil) language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.505 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Small improvements.
  • Added resources for Japanese language
  • The "fast" method of rules' application was updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.504 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.503 (May 25, 2011)

  • Fixed the extracting of text from EPUB files.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Polish languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.502 (May 3, 2011)

  • The extracting of text from HTML and MHT files was improved.
  • The support of Hunspell spell checker was improved.
  • Added resources for Arabic language.
  • Resources for Korean language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.501 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Italian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.500 (Apr 11, 2011)

  • Added the main menu item "Direct Speech". It allows to add tags for changing
  • of voice during reading of dialogs. For SAPI 5 only.
  • Resources for Chinese (Traditional), Czech and German languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.499 (Mar 27, 2011)

  • Fixed the "fast" method of rules' application (thanks to Venedikt Lee).
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Ukrainian language were updated (thanks to Evgeny Miroshnichenko).

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.498 (Mar 20, 2011)

  • Added the track bar "Pitch" to the tab "SAPI 5" in the main window.
  • Added resources for Vietnamese language (thanks to Missfly82-AIO).
  • Fixed small bugs.

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.497 (Mar 13, 2011)

  • Added the global hotkeys "Skip to Next Paragraph" and "Skip to Previous Paragraph".
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.496 (Feb 28, 2011)

  • Added the chapter "Phonetic Alphabets" to the help file.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Ukrainian language were
  • updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.495 (Feb 21, 2011)

  • Added the reading of DjVu-files (the program extracts data from an OCR text layer).
  • Removed the setting "Write to file speed" (SAPI 4) from the window "Audio Files".
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, Italian, Korean and Romanian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.2.0.494 (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Added the reading of CHM-files (Compiled HTML Help).
  • A table of contents will be imported as named bookmarks to the program (for
  • CHM and EPUB).
  • Updated the extracting of text from EPUB and HTML.
  • Fixed the reading of FB2-files.
  • Added the button "Text color" to the window "Font and Colors".
  • Added the setting "Encoding of output files" to the window "File Splitter".
  • Small improvements.
  • Libraries and "viewer.exe" are stored in the subfolder "utils".
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.1.0.493 (Feb 6, 2011)

  • Updated the extracting of text from DOC, DOCX, EPUB, ODT.
  • Added the main menu item "Edit | Convert Selected | Line Case" (to capitalize
  • all lines of selected text - for poems).
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Mueller).

New in Balabolka 2.1.0.492 (Jan 31, 2011)

  • The dictionary of homographs can be converted to DIC file (the button "Save as"
  • in the editor of homographs).
  • During the reading of selected text the selection does not disappear.
  • Added the tab "Search" to the help files (for compatibility with screen readers).
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Italian, Polish and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.1.0.491 (Jan 23, 2011)

  • Added the Korean help file
  • Fixed bugs in the pronunciation correction.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.1.0.490 (Jan 17, 2011)

  • Added the French help file (thanks to Lyubov Tyurina).
  • Added the options "Show all words" and "Do not show words from text file" to the window "Find Names in Text".
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, German, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.1.0.489 (Jan 7, 2011)

  • Added the main menu item "Audio Clip". It allows to insert a link to external
  • audio clip into text: Audio=C:\Sounds\ring.mp3}}
  • Supported formats: WAV, MP3, OGG. The program will play an audio clip during reading aloud. When converting to audio files, an audio clip will be embedded in the audio file created by the program.
  • The file extension 'INI' will be automatically changed to 'REX' for pronunciation correction dictionaries.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for German, Italian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.488 (Dec 21, 2010)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.487 (Dec 20, 2010)

  • The window "Translate" was improved.
  • The reading of text can be started from the beginning of a paragraph (the window "Settings", the tab "General"). In previous versions the reading can be started from the position of cursor or from the begining of a document.
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated (thanks to Yupeng).

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.486 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • The version 2.0 was released
  • The support of Hunspell was improved
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Italian, Korean, Polish and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Fabio Boccaletti, Choi Youn-soo, Zbigniew Strzelczyk and Evgeny Miroshnichenko)

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.485 Beta / 1.37.0.485 (Nov 27, 2010)

  • Added the tab "Voice" to the window "Settings" (for selecting of default voice).
  • Resources for Bulgarian, German, Italian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 1.37.0.484 (Nov 8, 2010)

  • The format of homograph dictionaries was updated. The wildcard character "*" can be used instead of any word or a set of letters. For example:
  • to close his eyes=cloze
  • to close * eyes=cloze
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, German, Italian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 1.36.0.483 (Oct 31, 2010)

  • Added the button "Configure" for the shell extension (the window "Settings", the tab "General").
  • Fixed the conflict between the shell extension and User Access Control (UAC).
  • Removed the main menu item "Application of Rules (INI)".
  • Resources for Chinese (Traditional), French, German and Italian languages were updated.

New in Balabolka 1.36.0.482 (Oct 26, 2010)

  • Fixed the problem with too short lines of text in LRC files.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 1.36.0.481 (Oct 24, 2010)

  • Added the main menu items "Skip to Next Paragraph" and "Skip to Previous Paragraph".
  • Small improvements.
  • Fixed the error in the extacting of text from DOC-files.
  • The minimal length of text line for LRC files was decreased to 15 symbols.
  • Resources for Italian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.480 Beta / 1.36.0.480 (Oct 18, 2010)

  • Added the support of BXT format ("Balabolka Text Document"). It stores a text, a voice settings and bookmarks as XML data.
  • Fixed the error in registration of shell extension on 64-bit versions of Windows.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Korean, German, Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.479 Beta / 1.36.0.479 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Added the creating of AMR-WB files to the portable version (Windows XP or above).
  • Added the shell extension: the context menu of Windows Explorer will contain the submenu "Balabolka" insead of the menu item "Read with Balabolka".
  • Added the button "Restore Defaults" to the window "Settings".
  • Resources for Italian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.478 Beta / 1.35.0.478 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Small changes in the design of the main window.
  • Fixed the error message when Speech API is not installed.
  • Fixed the error in defining of audio format settings by default.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, Portuguese (Brazil) and Ukrainian languages
  • were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.477 Beta / 1.35.0.477 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Added the color setting for XML tags in text (the window "Font and Colors").
  • This may help to "hide" SAPI tags during reading aloud, when the color of tags is the same as the color of the background. It's recommended to turn off the option "Highlight spoken text" in the window "Settings".
  • Added the parameter for the command line: balabolka.exe -n [text_line]
  • This parameter means that the command line contains a line of text instead of a file name.
  • Fixed the problem with chapters in iTunes/iPod compatible audiobooks (MPEG-4).
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.476 Beta / 1.35.0.476 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Added the support of MPEG-4 audio files (MP4, M4A, M4B).
  • Added the option "Apply rules to large parts of text" (the window "Settings",
  • the tab "Rules").
  • Updated the parameter of the command line:
  • balabolka.exe -dt filename folder1 [folder2]
  • If one more parameter is defined (folder2), the text files will be saved to
  • this folder before applying of rules.
  • Small improvements.
  • The utilities are stored in the subfolder "utils".
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional) and Italian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.475 Beta / 1.34.0.475 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Removed the track bar "Pitch" from the tab "SAPI 5" in the main window.
  • Added the option "Create INX file" (for AMR-WB files, played by "Nokia Audiobook Player").
  • Added the button "Find errors" to the window "Pronunciation Correction" (for
  • INI files).
  • Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.47 Beta / 1.34.0.474 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Added the main menu item "Application of Rules (INI)".
  • The component for regular expressions was updated.
  • Resources for Bulgarian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.473 Beta / 1.34.0.473 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Added the reading of EPUB-files (Electronic Publication, a free and open e-book standard by IDPF).
  • Added the support of AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband, an audio codec).
  • The option is not supported in the portable version.
  • Added the main menu item "Extract Text from Files".
  • The component for regular expressions was updated. VBScript is not used anymore.
  • The extracting of text from FB2-files was updated.
  • Library DelZip190.dll was updated
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.472 Beta / 1.33.0.472 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Added the button "Save All" to the program "Image Viewer".
  • Small improvements.
  • Resources for Italian language were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.47 Beta / 1.33.0.471 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • The minimal length of text line for LRC files was decreased to 35 symbols.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 2.0.0.470 Beta / 1.33.0.470 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • A bitrate value for Ogg Vorbis files can be set (the window "Audio files", the tab "OGG Vorbis").
  • The library oggwma.dll is not used anymore.
  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian, French, Italian, Korean, Polish and Ukrainian languages were updated

New in Balabolka 1.26.0.400 (May 23, 2009)

  • Added the ability to pronounce the numbers of files during the batch converting.
  • Added the playing of sound when saving of audio file is finished.
  • Resources for German language were updated (thanks to Regine Mueller).

New in Balabolka 1.26.0.399 (May 21, 2009)

  • Fixed small bugs.
  • Resources for Bulgarian language were updated