{"repo":"santinic/audiblez","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/santinic/audiblez","clone":"git clone https://github.com/santinic/audiblez.git","description":"Generate audiobooks from e-books","language":"Python","stars":8432,"topics":["audiobooks","epub","kokoro","python","tts"],"license":"MIT","category":"dev-tools","readme_excerpt":"Audiblez: Generate audiobooks from e-books v4 Now with Graphical interface, CUDA support, and many languages! Audiblez generates .m4b audiobooks from regular .epub e-books, using Kokoro's high-quality speech synthesis. Kokoro-82M is a recently published text-to-speech model with just 82M params and very natural sounding output. It's released under Apache licence and it was trained on < 100 hours of audio. It currently supports these languages: 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 On a Google Colab's T4 GPU via Cuda, it takes about 5 minutes to convert \"Animal's Farm\" by Orwell (which is about 160,000 characters) to audiobook, at a rate of about 600 characters per second. On my M2 MacBook Pro, on CPU, it takes about 1 hour, at a rate of about 60 characters per second. How to install the Command Line tool If you have Python 3 on your computer, you can install it with pip. You also need espeak-ng and ffmpeg installed on your machine: Then you can convert an .epub directly with: It will first create a bunch of book chapter 1.wav , book chapter 2.wav , etc. files in the same directory, and at the end it will produce a book.m4b file with the whole book you can listen with VLC or any audiobook player. It will only produce the .m4b file if you have ffmpeg installed on your machine. How to run the GUI The GUI is a simple graphical interface to use audiblez. You need some extra dependencies to run the GUI: Then you can run the GUI with: How to run on Windows After many trials, ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/santinic","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/santinic/audiblez/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}