| Version | Change log |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.884 Dec 15, 2024 |
Fixed small bugs. Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Uzbek and Vietnamese languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić, Regine Müller, Kim Young-Gam, Fernando Gregoire, Fettah Pınar, Ulugbek Tolakov and Nguyễn Ninh Hoàng). |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.883 Dec 1, 2024 |
Added the button "Select Voice" to the main window: the button will help to select items from the voice list if the voice list is long (thanks to Jean Bernardo da Silva Vieira). Small improvements. Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit. Updated the list of voices for CereVoice Cloud. Updated the using of Iciba TTS, Naver TTS and Youdao TTS. Removed all changes related to program crashes due to MMDevApi.dll system library. Here's what we know about the problem that appears after installing the 24H2 update for Windows 11: if the user's monitor contains speakers, if the graphics card and the monitor are connected by a cable that transmits sound - this leads to unstable work of Balabolka, it periodically crashes, and the MMDevApi.dll library is specified in the event log as the cause of the crash. But if you connect speakers or headphones to the audio jack on the motherboard of the same computer, Balabolka works stably. So, the problem is neither in the MMDevApi.dll library nor in Balabalka, but in some driver inside the 24H2 update. Until Microsoft developers fix the problem, here's the situation: if you installed Windows 11 update 24H2 and Balabolka starts crashing, connect your audio output device to a different port on your computer. |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.882 Nov 16, 2024 |
The demo of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech is temporarily available again. Resources for Bulgarian, Croatian and Uzbek languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Petar Divić and Ulugbek Tolakov). |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.881 Nov 6, 2024 |
Added the using of LibreTranslate. Added the maximal rate value for subtitle converting (when the SoundTouch library is used). For online text-to-speech services, only the SoundTouch library will be used to make the speech fit within the time intervals in the subtitles. |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.880 Oct 27, 2024 |
Anoher temporary fix for Windows 11 24H2: Balabolka wouldn't monitor plugging/unplugging of audio output devices. Fixed the using of Microsoft Azure: the server returns zero-length audio data sometimes for unknown reason. Updated the list of voices for Yandex SpeechKit. |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.879 Oct 23, 2024 |
I had the indiscretion to express regret for the deaths of many people in the fighting between Russia and Ukraine, and now I am facing a trial. The Russian police seized my computer, notebooks, flash drives and external hard disks. Only a part of my sources, saved in a cloud service, survived. The future of my applications is now uncertain: my imprisonment is highly probable. Do what you have to do, and what will be will be. Fixed the text extracting for FB2 and FB3 files. Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit. Disabled the demo of IBM Watson Text-To-Speech. (The service keeps returning the response status code HTTP 301.) Used a temporary fix for Windows 11 24H2: this version of the operating system contains a crashed MMDevApi.dll system library, and Microsoft developers still refuse to fix the bug. Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Resources for Czech, Slovak and Turkish languages were updated (thanks to Adaptech s.r.o. and Fettah Pınar). |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.878 Aug 25, 2024 |
Fixed the using of the PAUSE tag. Fixed pauses between sentences for Microsoft Azure. Resources for Bulgarian and Uzbek languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev and Ulugbek Tolakov). |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.877 Aug 11, 2024 |
Disabled the using of OpenAI Text-To-Speech. (The service keeps returning error 429.) Fixed the using of iTranslate Text-To-Speech. Updated the lists of voices for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.876 Jul 29, 2024 |
Added the using of Iciba Text-To-Speech and iTranslate Text-To-Speech. Updated the list of voices for Baidu Text-To-Speech. |
| Portable Balabolka 2.15.0.874 Jul 15, 2024 |
Fixed the using of Yandex SpeechKit. Resources for Polish language were updated (thanks to Fresta). |
