Hi everyone, it's Jackson from Talos.
Today, we're going to be talking about how you can you listen to text-to-speech on your
windows computer.
Now, a while back I made a mac version of this video and I promised I would make a Windows
version; this is going to be that video.
But before you continue, I do suggest you go and watch that old video because it's going
to be really helpful explaining why text-to-speech is useful and what you can use it for.
But in this video, we're going to be talking about a specific program called Balabolka.
Now, I know that sounds like a weird name and sometimes people are turned off because
the program looks a little bit weird; but it's a really really powerful program and
I highly suggest you continue watching this video.
We're going to jump right in.
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So in this video, what we're going to be going over is: downloading Balabolka, the basic
functions of the program, the global shortcuts (which are really important to understand),
and then lastly the clipboard reader which is also very powerful.
I'm going to leave a table of contents in the YouTube description so you can actually
find the specific parts of the video and then click on the links to them.
So the first thing you're gonna need to do is actually download Balabolka itself.
So I'm gonna have you go to whatever browser you want – I'm gonna use Google Chrome – and
you're gonna just type in Balabolka.
I'm also gonna leave a link in the description to the actual website.
So go and click on this link "Balabolka - Cross+A" and you're gonna see this button
"download Balabolka."
I just want to let you know we don't take any legal responsibility for anything you
do in your computer.
All right so download Balabolka and I'm going to probably skip ahead until it's actually
finished.
Alright, so you just click over here on the zip file and it will open up.
Click on the button marked setup.
Now, you may get some notification saying you can't search this file right now, just
run it and it'll also give you another notification saying "do you want a lot this app from
an the publisher make changes on your device."
I'm gonna hit yes and then you have a selection of languages.
I'm going to choose English and hit next then you have this Balabolka installation which
is the setup.
And hit next.
You can put it wherever you want and then continue.
And I'm gonna check the box "pin to taskbar."
You can also check the box that creates a desktop item, which is already checked.
And it's going to install.
All right, so we just finished the installation, so I'm going to leave it checked "launched
Balabolka now" because I want to show you what it looks like.
All right, so this is the balabolka interface it'll look something like this.
So, you have the option to just type text into it and you can listen to that.
"Jackson is cool."
And you'll notice is highlighting the words, which is really helpful – you can actually
see what it's reading.
You have the option to change the speed, which I leave at 10.
And I recommend that you start at 0, but you move it up slowly, like, maybe once a week
and by no time you'll be really fast.
You also have the option to change the pitch and the volume, which I'll leave, and you
can change the voice as well from all these different voices.
You may only have Zira downloaded and that's fine just leave it like that for now.
I'm going to also go to the view and change the buttons.
So I'm going to make sure that skip to previous paragraph, skip to next paragraph, and sentence;
and all those things are checked right here.
And I'm going to check the large buttons as well and hit OK.
This allows us to have a few different options and I'll demonstrate this by grabbing an article.
So I have this article from the New York Times – just going to select that copy with ctrl
C and then paste with control V. And I have the option now to play which I can "Washington
– congressional republicans" but I can also skip forward.
"The senate had one plan" Back a sentence "Washington congressional" Forward a paragraph
"The senate had one plan" And back a paragraph "washington congressional," which is pretty
darn useful and I find very helpful.
So, before I go any further, I really should make one key distinction for you and that's
the difference between a local and a global shortcut.
So what's a local shortcut.
First of all a local shortcut is a shortcut that works in a specific program.
For example, if I'm in Microsoft Word and I hit ctrl T that will create a hanging indent,
which is a special type of formatting.
If I'm in Google Chrome on the other hand and I hit ctrl T it will create a new tab
so it's the same keystroke but it's us two completely different things depending on what
program you're in but a global shortcut, on the other hand, is something that works in
all programs no matter what the program is.
For example, if I hit ctrl C and I'm selecting text, whether I'm in Microsoft Word or Google
Chrome, it will copy that text, so it doesn't matter what program i'm in works in all
of them.
So we're going to try to create a special global shortcut group for Balabolka.
Let's jump in
So why would we want to set up global shortcuts in balabolka.
Well, let's say that I have an article in balabolka and I'm listening to it for school.
And I also need to take notes, so I start listening to my document here.
"Raiders at Iran's Grand Bazaar have taken part in a big protest against rising prices
in the plummeting–" And then I realize I need to pause it because I need to write
notes.
So I say traders... and then I keep going.
"Value of Iran's currency the rial" And then, I realize I need to pause it again.
And I just have to keep scrolling back and forth and back and forth.
And that's just kind of a pain because I can't type in listen at the same time.
How do we stop this problem?
Well, if we have a global shortcut, even if we're in Google Chrome, we can hit a shortcut
and it will stop playing what's in Balabolka.
So, for example, if I was typing here and then I wanted Balabolka to play, I could hit
a shortcut and keep typing.
And Balabolka would be playing and pausing while I want it to – without me having to
press these buttons over here.
I would just have to hit a shortcut on my keyboard.
So let's jump right in.
I'm going to show you how to set up these shortcuts.
So I want you to imagine that K is the center key.
Right?
Because if you're typing on the home row then K will be where your middle finger is.
K is going to be the pause-play button.
J is going to be the rewind and L is going to be the fast-forward.
O is going to be your skip forward and U is going to be your skip back.
It kind of makes sense right?
M is going to be your start a new text thing.
If you want to start listening to new text, M is going to be your button to do that, and
I is going to be stop.
So everything revolves around K so you don't have to move your fingers too much, but also
because it's a very– it just makes logical sense.
So go to options in Balabolka then hit settings.
And you have a lot of different menus.
The menu we care about is hotkeys, not shortcuts.
Make sure you're not clicking on the shortcuts tab.
That's that's a local shortcut set up.
I want to use global hotkeys, so make sure you check "use global hotkeys" – there's
a box right there.
And then, you have all these different options to set up your various hotkeys.
First of all, you'll notice that the ctrl and alt keys are checked in all of the shortcuts
and I'll explain that in just a second, but before I do that I wanted to go down and check
"skip to next paragraph" and "skip to previous paragraph."
Everything else is already pre-checked.
So why is ctrl + alt already checked?
Well, we could just make read aloud the M key.
Right?
However, that doesn't really make any sense and the reason that doesn't make any sense
is because you use M for other things than reading aloud.
For example, if M was your shortcut key and not ctrl alt M, then any time you want it
to type the letter m, your computer would start playing Balabolka which wouldn't make
any sense.
So instead what we're doing is any time we hit ctrl alt M we'll have Balabolka start
reading.
So we're going to change right here where it says f5 we're going to click that and then
we're going to just type in M and hit enter.
And that will change this to M. We're gonna go to pause and we're going to click on that
and we're going to hit K.
So that's our main control button.
We're gonna go to stop and we're going to make that I and hit enter.
We're gonna go to read selected text– that, actually, you don't have to do anything it
doesn't really do anything.
We're going to go to the one that says "read clipboard aloud," which is f9 and we're
gonna make that C. I'll explain read clipboard aloud in just a second, but don't worry about
that for now.
Also make sure that emulate control C before reading is pressed.
Then, go to skip to next sentence and hit L and hit enter.
Skip to previous sentence J and hit enter.
Then, you go to skip to next paragraph and we're gonna hit O and hit enter.
Skip the previous paragraph, and hit U and hit enter.
I'm gonna scroll down a little bit more and that's it.
So that's all we care about and then you're gonna hit OK and you're done Okay.
So now, let's see what's happening.
Let's say that we're in this right here and we want to play this.
So we hit command I sorry we hit control alt M "shops were shut and thousands of people
took to the streets of the capital."
And we want to pause it we hit control alt K. And it pauses it.
So now, if we're in this window here and we're typing and we hit enter and then we
want to play it, we hit Control Alt K. "riot police later fired tear–" and we can fast-forward
by hitting ctrl alt L. It was the biggest protest in Tehran" we can pause it again.
We can rewind by hitting ctrl alt J. "Riot police later fired" We can skip back a paragraph
by hitting ctrl alt U.
Shops were shut and thousands.
And we can skip forward a paragraph by hitting ctrl alt O. Riot police later fired tear"
And if we want to stop it completely, we hit ctrl alt I.
So you have all these great options now.
You can control everything from your keyboard.
Trust me if you try this, it becomes significantly more efficient.
So remember that last shortcut I told you was really important, but I didn't really
explain?
Well I'm going to explain that one now.
So it was ctrl alt and C. So what does that do?
What it does is it reads whatever text you selected and I'll give a technical explanation
of what exactly that means right after I show you how it works.
So if I select this text and I hit ctrl alt C. "With the title of Sense and Sensibility
is connected one of those minor problems which delights the cummin-splitters of–" So
it actually reads no matter what I'm selecting and I can use all of my same shortcuts.
I can use ctrl alt K to pause it and play it "a criticism."
I can skip forward with control alt L. "In the Cecilia of Madame D'Arblay."
And I can also stop it by hitting ctrl alt I.
And if I want to select something new and read, it I have to hit control alt I first
and then select it.
But then I can read, say, this.
"Mansfield park, are names."
So how is this actually doing this.
Well what it's doing is when I hit ctrl alt C what it first does is it copies whatever
text you want to read.
So it essentially says this: We're going to hit control C and copy it and then we're gonna
read whatever is on the clipboard.
What's the clipboard?
Well the clipboard is actually where you store copied information.
So if you were to copy something on your computer, it stores it in the special little place.
Imagine it's like a little document with whatever you've copied and then your computer knows
it can read that using Balabolka.
So what it does is it says copy here and then read whatever is copied.
So that's all for this video I hope it's been really helpful to you.
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