
In order to enable these hidden TTS voices for all the applications in Windows 10, you have to add a few entries to the Windows registry. But with a little modification of the Windows Registry you can enable these voices for all the other applications as well. These voices are not available for any other application except for Cortana itself. In case of US English version of Windows 10, Cortana uses Eva and Mark voices. But Microsoft also uses two separate voices for Cortana which again vary for various language versions of Windows. These voices can be used in Microsoft apps and desktop applications. For example, the US English version of Windows 10 comes with Microsoft Zira and Microsoft David voices. Microsoft Windows 10 comes with two text-to-speech engines or voices which vary for different language versions of Windows. Read our guide: How to convert text-to-speech with Balabolka.

With all these features to make life easier when reading text on a screen isn't an option, Balabolka is best free text-to-speech software around.
For lengthy documents, you can create bookmarks to make it easy to jump back to a specific location and there are excellent tools on hand to help you to customize the pronunciation of words to your liking. In addition to reading words aloud, this free text-to-speech software can also save narrations as audio files in a range of formats including MP3 and WAV. Whichever route you choose, you can adjust the speech, pitch and volume of playback to create a custom voice.

In terms of output, you can use SAPI 4 complete with eight different voices to choose from, SAPI 5 with two, or the Microsoft Speech Platform. There are a couple of ways to use Balabolka's free text-to-speech software: you can either copy and paste text into the program, or you can open a number of supported file formats (including DOC, PDF, and HTML) in the program directly.
