Balabolka Alternatives for Linux

Balabolka is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is VoiceStudio, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Balabolka and 16 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Balabolka are eSpeak, Voicebox Studio, VoiceOverMaker and Intelligent Speaker.

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  1. VoiceStudio icon
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    VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative — voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.

    46 VoiceStudio alternatives

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  2. eSpeak icon
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    eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.

    118 eSpeak alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  3. Creates natural-sounding speech from text in multiple languages and voices using neural networks, with an advanced browser editor, export options as MP3, WAV, or MP4, SSML formatting, transcription, video recording, customization features, and collaboration tools.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. Text to speech extension for a browser. Automatic text detection (can speak without necessary selection), adjustable voice speed, playlist.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
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  5. loudkit icon
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    loudkit is an open-source text-to-speech engine that runs on your own hardware. It ships two models, loudr-1 and the faster loudr-1-turbo, with 28 voices across ten languages (Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish), and it can...

    55 loudkit alternatives

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    • Python
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  6. NeoSpeech icon
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    Experience our world-class, natural-sounding, text-to-speech (TTS) software programs today. Empower your applications with advanced TTS software using VoiceTextTM. Robotic voices are now history!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • Android
    • iPhone
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  7. Listening icon
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    Transform your research experience with Listening, the world's first app that turns academic papers into high-quality audio content. Trusted by over 50,000 students and researchers, Listening helps you save time by letting you listen to papers anywhere, in your spare time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
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  8. Select and Speak uses iSpeech's human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages. You can configure the voice and speed options by changing the settings on the options page.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Google Chrome
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  9. Verbify-TTS icon
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    Free and offline Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine that reads any text on your screen with high-quality voices powered by AI models.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  10. Thorsten-Voice: A free to use, offline working, high quality german TTS voice should be available for every project without any license struggling. It has also a really good explanation for the underlying Python TTS which can be used for TTS in other languages such spain or english.

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  11. Qwen Audio icon
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    Processes both audio and text inputs with a multi-task framework supporting over 30 language and sound tasks, enabling multi-turn dialogue, sound reasoning, and tool use, while excelling in benchmarks without task-specific fine-tuning or retraining.

    59 Qwen Audio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • FFmpeg
    • Python
    • PyTorch
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