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What's new in this version:

Balabolka 2.15.0.704
- 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


Balabolka 2.15.0.703
- Reduced the memory usage
- Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated


Balabolka 2.15.0.702
- 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)


Balabolka 2.15.0.701
- Small improvements
- Resources for Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French and Korean languages were updated (thanks to Anan, Jirí Fenz, Michel Such and Park Sung-Wan)


Balabolka 2.15.0.700
- Added the using of Youdao Text-To-Speech (for testing purposes only)


Balabolka 2.15.0.699
- Fixed the audio file saving if the audio output device is absent
- Resources for Bulgarian, German, Slovenian and Spanish languages were updated


Balabolka 2.15.0.698
- 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


Balabolka 2.15.0.697
- Small improvements
- Resources for Spanish language were updated (thanks to Fernando Gregoire)


Balabolka 2.15.0.696
- The using of of custom encoders was fixed
- Small improvements
- Resources for Bulgarian language were updated


Balabolka 2.15.0.695
- 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)


Balabolka 2.15.0.694
- 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)


Balabolka 2.15.0.693
- The compatibility with screen readers was improved
- Resources for Bulgarian and Spanish languages were updated


Balabolka 2.15.0.692
- 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


Balabolka 2.15.0.691
- 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


Balabolka 2.15.0.690
- Fixed small bugs
- Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Spanish languages were updated


Balabolka 2.15.0.689
- 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


Balabolka 2.15.0.688
- 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


Balabolka 2.15.0.687
- 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


Balabolka 2.15.0.686
- 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