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“Why” of learning

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“What” of learning

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“How” of learning

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optimize individual choice and autonomy.

optimize relevance, value, and authentic y.

minimize threats and distractions.

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offer ways of customizing the display of information

offer alternatives for auditory information

offer alternatives for visual information

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vary the methods for response and navigation

optimize access to tools and assistive technologies.

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heighten salience of goals and objectives

vary demands and resources to optimize challenges

foster collaboration and community

increase mastery-originated feedback

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clarify vocabulary & symbols

clarify syntax & structure

support decoding of text

promote understanding across languages

illustrate through multiple medias

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use multiple medias for communicating

use multiple tools for construction

build influences with graduated levels of support for practice & performance

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Activate or supply background knowledge

Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships.

Guide information processing and visualization

Maximize transfer and generalization

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Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation

facilitate personal coping skills and strategies

develop self assessment and regulation

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Guide appropriate goal-settings

Support planning and strategy development

Facilitate managing information and resources

Enhance capacity for monitoring progress.

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This is a good resource that allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.

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WMZ: Z087754155981 (USD)
WME: E110509803261 (EUR)

Softonic.com:

Balabolka is a free text-to-speech engine that boasts quality and flexibility worthy of a paid app.

TechRadar.com:

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.

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as an audio file. The program can read the clipboard content, extract text from documents, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka supports text file formats: AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.

The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.

Balabolka can save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When an audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously (at the same way, as lyrics for songs).

Download Balabolka

Size: MB

Version: Changelog

Licence: Freeware

Operating System:

Portable Balabolka does not require an installation and can be run from a USB drive. Portable Version: Download ( MB)

A computer must have at least one voice installed.

The utility contains no graphical user interface and works only from the command line. Command Line Utility: Download ( KB)

The application handles various command line parameters to be able to read text aloud or save as an audio file.

Text Extract Utility: Download ( MB)
The program allows to extract text from the various types of files. The extracted text can be combined into one file or/and split into few files. The utility works from the command line, without displaying any user interface.

* Balabolka is a Russian word, it can be translated as " chatterer".

The program allows to use skins for customizing your window appearance.

Download Skin Pack (6.7 MB, 107 skins)

Balabolka can use the Microsoft Speech API 4.x/5.x voices and the Microsoft Speech Platform text-to-speech engines.

All voices for SAPI 4 became obsolete; they are not recommended for installing anymore.
Use the fresh versions of speech engines.

RHVoice - free and open source speech synthesizer (it supports Czech, English, Esperanto, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Tatar, Ukrainian and Uzbek):

UkrVox - free Ukrainian voice created by Yaroslav Kozak (Lviv, Ukraine):

Ekho - free TTS engine (it supports Cantonese, Mandarin and Zhaoan Hakka):

Hear2Read - free voices for Indic languages (Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu):

To get better voice quality, you can purchase commercial TTS engines.
High Quality Commercial Voices:

Microsoft Speech Platform

The Microsoft Speech Platform allows developers to build and deploy Text-to-Speech applications. The Microsoft Speech Platform consists of a Runtime, and Runtime Languages (engines for speech recognition and text-to-speech). There are separate Runtime Languages for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The version of the Runtime Languages must match the version of the Speech Platform that you installed.

Use the following steps to install the Microsoft Speech Platform (version 11.0):

1. Download and install the Speech Platform Runtime
(the file 'x86_SpeechPlatformRuntime\SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi').

2. Download and install Runtime Languages for use with the Speech Platform
(file names starting with 'MSSpeech_TTS_').

The Microsoft Speech Platform provides support for 26 languages for speech synthesis. XML tags can be used both for SAPI 5 and the Speech Platform.

Balabolka can use Hunspell ( hunspell.github.io). Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox.

Spell checker dictionaries for Windows:

Balabolka can use language modules from Microsoft Office 97/2000 for spell checking. If Microsoft Office is not installed on your computer, or you use the other version of Microsoft Office, you can download spell checking components from my web-site:

Balabolka allows to use the spell checking built in operating system. The Spell Checking API is available beginning with the Windows 8.

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Balabolka is a text-to-speech application (freeware)

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Class Dojo is a great tool to help with communicating in classroom with students and with parents. Class Dojo helps keep the students focused and on task because they feel motivated. They suddenly want to participate and try their best in every way. You can weave Class Dojo into your classroom lessons every day. Inside a Classroom.

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.