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Balabolka v2.15.0.709 Updated
billon on 22 Aug 2019 Change history
- 15MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 22 Aug 2019
- Suggested by I am Baas
Balabolka is a feature-rich program to read text aloud from a variety of file types including DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML. The program uses Microsoft's own Speech API 4 and 5, but lets you fine tune various voice parameters, including rate and pitch and a substitution list can also be applied to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. The program supports customized font and background color, skins, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.
Balabolka can also save the synchronized text to external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When the audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text will be displayed synchronously (in the same way as lyrics for songs).
Also includes batch conversion tools from of a wide variety of document formats to audio or plain text and a file compare tool, file splitter and screen magnification window.
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| System Requirements: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). This is included by default in Win2K and above. |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: |
Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch balabolka.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language and help files. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | DSpeech |
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Mixture
on 2014-08-07 20:37
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@Checker: |
DSpeech v1.73.109 Updated
billon on 22 Aug 2019 Change history
- 4MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 22 Aug 2019
- Suggested by AlephX
DSpeech is a text-to-speech program with the option of saving the output to a variety of formats, great for reviewing text or creating audio books. The program uses Microsoft's included speech engine SAPI5 but also supports dynamically changing the features of the voices using tags e.g. insert pauses, emphasize specific words, spell them out etc.
The program can do simple audio/voice recordings to save to WAV, and include some basic dictation / voice control tools ("ASR" for Automatic Speech Recognition). Text can be imported from a variety of formats TXT, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, XML and PDF and outputs to MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA, OPUS and AMR.
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| System Requirements: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Microsoft speech engine SAPI5 |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DSpeech.exe. WinNT/2K users: need to install the speech engine separately. You will find links to plugins, speech engines and voice sets on the program website. Optionally, delete unnecessary language and manual files. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | Balabolka |
| What's new? |
See: https://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/DSpeech-Changelog-36935.html |
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smaragdus
on 2015-04-01 21:46
I tried to test DSpeech but it failed to run on my system (Windows 8.1)- what are its requirements?
Happy.Camper2
on 2017-06-10 17:28
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DSpeech is now version 1.63.3 Released 2017 Mar 27 at Authors site. |
CherryTree v0.38.9 Updated
billon on 17 Aug 2019 Change history
- 102MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 17 Aug 2019
- Suggested by I am Baas
CherryTree is an hierarchical note-taking application. It features rich-text formatting, syntax highlighting, spell-checking, image insertion and password protection. Data is stored in a single XML or SQLite file. Import from plaintext, HTML or your favorite note-taker, including Zim, Treepad, Keynote, Mempad and RedNotebook. Export to PDF, HTML or plaintext files.
Cross platform with versions available for Linux. CherryTree Portable is a portable wrapper for CherryTree.
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| System Requirements: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes. However, enabling spell-checking creates the folder "enchant" in AppData\Local |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | GNU GPLv3 |
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| Similar/alternative apps: | Flashnote |
| What's new? |
See: https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree/blob/master/changelog.txt |
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shnbwmn
on 2016-08-07 13:28
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CherryTree produces great formatted HTML export. It's fully customisable after-the-fact, with the included styles.css. Embedded files, images and the HTML files are stored separately from each other. |
pestudio v8.97 Updated
billon on 11 Aug 2019 Change history
- 3MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 11 Aug 2019
- Suggested by joby_toss
pestudio shows details about applications and other system files (.exe, .dll, .cpl, .ocx, .ax, .sys etc.) without starting them including:
- Libraries that are used by an application
- Functions that are imported by an application
- Functions (also anonymous) that are exported by an application
- All functions that are forwarded to other libraries
- Obsolete Functions that are exported and imported by an application
- If Data Execution Prevention (DEP) Windows security mechanism is used
- If Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) Windows security mechanism is used
- If Windows security mechanism Structured Exception Handling (SEH) is used
- Whether some sections are compressed
pestudio free lacks some features of pro version, see comparison here (PDF file!).
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | None |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Free for personal use/Liteware |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Delete AddToShell.reg and RemoveFromShell.reg. Launch pestudio.exe. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | PPEE |
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__philippe
on 2017-11-26 12:10
PEstudio v8.70 - Link date 22-NOV-2017
Midas
on 2017-11-26 19:37
Like noted elsewhere, unless significant for the comment exchange, program changelogs are best posted to the forum topic (or entered at the appropriate field), my dear _phillipe. B-)
__philippe
on 2017-11-26 21:39
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All righty,... next time round, |
WinScan2PDF v4.93 Updated
billon on 7 Aug 2019 Change history
- 192KB (uncompressed)
- Released on 7 Aug 2019
- Suggested by Emka
WinScan2PDF is a very small program for scanning documents and saving them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinScan2PDF_p.exe. |
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| Latest comments |
opsimathic
on 2017-08-12 08:51
@Emka - The first item under OPTIONS look like you can set the utility to delete the jpgs when you exit the program. I have never been very sure the program actually does what it says, so I simply use the second item in OPTIONS to check and delete as necessary. Periodically I use the jpg instead the pdf so I actually find this useful. Bottom line is that I wish the author would clean all this up a bit more, but I find the utility so useful (use it every day almost) that I am prepared to work around the idiosyncrasies.
Emka
on 2019-07-30 01:11
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@MIKLO & _philippe: It now seems possible to select a folder for temporary files, so you can change the default location in AppData to the app's folder for example. |
