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What's New in Balabolka 2.5.0.525:

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


What's New in Balabolka 2.5.0.524:

- 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.


What's New in Balabolka 2.4.0.520:

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


What's New in Balabolka 2.4.0.518:

- 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.


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.517:

- Small improvements.
- Fixed small bugs.


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.516:

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


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.515:

- The special codes can be used in the windows "Find" and "Replace".
- Resources for Italian language were updated.


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.514:

- Added resources for Turkish language.


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.513:

- Added the button "Split" to the window "Split and Convert to Audio Files".
- Small improvements.
- Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.512:

- Added the creating of playlists for audio files. M3U, PLS, WPL and XSPF formats are supported.
- Resources for German and Ukrainian languages were updated.


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.511:

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


What's New in Balabolka 2.3.0.510:

- 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.


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.509:

- Added the option "Use system default voice" to the window "Settings", the tab "Voice".
- Resources for French and German languages were updated (thanks to Michel Such and Regine Mueller).
- Fixed small bugs.


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.508:

- The window "Translate" was updated. Google Translate API is not used anymore. Now the program uses the Google Translate service directly.
- Resources for Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated.
- Fixed small bugs.


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.507:

— 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 (thanks to Regine Mueller).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.506:

- Small improvements.
- Resources for Portuguese (Brazil) language were updated (thanks to Tiago Nonato).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.505:

- Small improvements.
- Added resources for Japanese language (thanks to Igor Sergeev and Misa Tsurumi).
- The "fast" method of rules' application was updated (thanks to Venedikt Lee).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.504:

- Fixed Bugs.


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.503:

- Fixed the extracting of text from EPUB files.
- Fixed small bugs.
- Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Polish languages were updated (thanks to Yupeng and Zbigniew Strzelczyk).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.502:

- The extracting of text from HTML and MHT files was improved.
- The support of Hunspell spell checker was improved.
- Added resources for Arabic language (thanks to Majid Al-Asiri).
- Resources for Korean language were updated (thanks to Choi Youn-Soo).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.501:

- Fixed small bugs.
- Resources for Bulgarian, Italian and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Fabio Boccaletti and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.500:

- 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 (thanks to CMHDREAM, Stanislav Tomecka and Regine Mueller).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.499:

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


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.498:

- 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.


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.496:

- Added the chapter "Phonetic Alphabets" to the help file.
- Small improvements.
- Resources for German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Ukrainian language were updated (thanks to Regine Mueller, Fabio Boccaletti, Tiago Nonato and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.495:

- 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 (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Michel Such, Fabio Boccaletti, Choi Youn-Soo and Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu).


What's New in Balabolka 2.2.0.494:

- 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, German, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Regine Mueller, Choi Youn-Soo and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.1.0.493:

- 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).


What's New in Balabolka 2.1.0.492:

- 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 (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Fabio Boccaletti, Zbigniew Strzelczyk and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.1.0.491:

- Added the Korean help file (thanks to Choi Youn-Soo).
- Fixed bugs in the pronunciation correction.
- Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Choi Youn-Soo and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.1.0.490:

- 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 (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Stanislav Tomecka, Regine Mueller, Choi Youn-soo, Tiago Nonato, Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.1.0.489:

- Added the main menu item "Audio Clip". It allows to insert a link to external audio clip into text. Supported formats: WAV, MP3, OGG.
- 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 (thanks to Regine Mueller, Fabio Boccaletti and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.0.0.488:

- Fixed small bugs.
- Resources for Bulgarian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Choi Youn-soo and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 2.0.0.486:

- 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).


What's New in Balabolka 1.37.0.484:

- The format of homograph dictionaries was updated.
- Small improvements.
- Resources for Bulgarian, Czech, German, Italian, Korean and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Stanislav Tomecka, Regine Mueller, Fabio Boccaletti, Choi Youn-soo and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 1.36.0.481:

- Added the main menu items "Skip to Next Paragraph" and "Skip to Previous Paragraph".
- 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 (thanks to Fabio Boccaletti and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 1.36.0.480:

- Added support of BXT format ("Balabolka Text Document"). It stores a text, a voice settings and bookmarks as XML data.
- Fixed error in registration of shell extension on 64-bit versions of Windows.
- Resources for Bulgarian, Korean, German, Romanian and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Choi Youn-soo, Regine Mueller, Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 1.36.0.479:

- Added the creating of AMR-WB files to the portable version (Windows XP or above).
- Added the shell extension: the context menu of Windows Еxplorer 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 (thanks to Fabio Boccaletti).


What's New in Balabolka 1.35.0.478:

- Small changes in the design of the main window.
- Resources for Bulgarian, French, Portuguese (Brazil) and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Michel Such, Tiago Nonato and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 1.35.0.476:

- 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 (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, CMHDREAM and Fabio Boccaletti).


What's New in Balabolka 1.34.0.475:

- 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 (thanks to Yupeng).


What's New in Balabolka 1.34.0.473:

- 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.
- 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 (thanks to R. Peters for the fast fixing of the found error).
- Resources for Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Ukrainian languages were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev, Zbigniew Strzelczyk, Tiago Nonato and Evgeny Miroshnichenko).


What's New in Balabolka 1.32.0.468:

- Resources for Bulgarian language were updated (thanks to Kostadin Kolev).
- Fixed small bugs.


What's New in Balabolka 1.32.0.466:

- Added the button "Audio Output" to the voice panel.
- Fixed small bugs.
- Resources for Korean language were updated (thanks to Choi Youn-soo).


What's New in Balabolka 1.32.0.465:

- Fixed bugs in the pronunciation correction.
- Resources for Chinese (Simplified) language were updated (thanks to Yupeng).


What's New in Balabolka 1.32.0.458:

- Fixed the slow editing of large text files.
- Fixed the error in text formatting.
- Small improvements.



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