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Turn an epub or text file into an audiobook

9 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2023-04-29 · latest 2024-03-29

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  1. Give https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts a look, the latest update enables use of MS Edge cloud-based TTS so you don't need a local GPU and the quality is excellent.
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    Show HN: Epub2tts, an Automated Audiobook Maker
    story by aedocw · 2024-01-15 · 0 comments
  3. …laws. You're pretty safe though assuming you don't distribute it or try to make money. Check out https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts for creating an audiobook from epub. Take a look in the utils directory for notes about fine-tuning a voice…
  4. I wrote https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts and the quality is pretty phenomenal if you use XTTS for the voice generation. It's really excellent, but requires the book not have DRM.
  5. …quick if you've got a GPU, but it's reasonable too if it's just using CPU to do the text to speech. https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts
  6. …is hard to beat. On the other hand if you just want to listen to the book being read, check out https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts ... It does not sound as good as a pro human, but it's not far off in my opinion. I've used that to listen…
  7. …in especially handy for books I want to listen to while doing yard work and stuff around the house. https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts
  8. …It's not as good as Eleven Labs, but it's far better than anything else I had previously heard. https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts If anyone knows of better TTS synthesizers that I could use please let me know!
    comment by aedocw · 2023-05-18 · in The Work of the Audiobook
  9. …enough searching, but I was surprised I didn't see anything out there that already worked this way. https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts