Create sound files of any text you have to take in or revise. It can be a powerful study and revision tool.
You can use it for definitions, case studies, poetry quotes, synopsis of scenes in a play or chapters in a book or parts of a course etc.

This video will take you through how to use Balabolka:

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Balabolka will use whatever voices are installed on your computer.
To create a sound file from any text, teachers and students download Balabolka to their Windows device from this website:	Download Balabolka
You can install other, free SAPI voices to read in other languages from this site:	Download free SAPI voices for English and other European languages
This will allow you to create sound files to help with oral and aural work in other European languages like French, German, Spanish.

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When you create your sound files of important text to learn/revise. It is essential to learn to name the sound files & save them where you can find them again. If you save them in folders on your One Drive/Google Drive students can listen to them on their phones to learn anywhere, anytime. Click here to view the section of this course on file management:
When teachers share their excellent notes/ teaching/learning materials digitally with students, the students can use Balabolka to make sound files of that important information; save them and listen to them on their phones to learn/revise anywhere, anytime. Teachers can create sound files and share them with students. Check out our resources to support teachers in sharing learning materials online in this section of our course: