Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command

Re:Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI c... by dewey on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:04AM (#41764441)

That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Does anyone know of a good solution for seamlessly switching between audiobooks and ebooks for books that are not bought from Amazon on Kindle?

In this case you already have the input file, and the audio output file but I guess there would be an app that takes these two files to provide a good reading experience. As they are based on the same source it should be possible to keep the reading progress matched between them.

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Re:Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI c... by noch on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:37AM (#41764628)

> Does anyone know of a good solution for seamlessly switching between audiobooks and ebooks for books that are not bought from Amazon on Kindle?

Use Calibre's e-book viewer[^0] which uses Piper for text-to-speech.

[^0]: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#read-aloud

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Re:Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI c... by dewey on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:42AM (#41764665)

Thanks, but clarification: I meant on iOS / mobile devices as I'm not reading on my computer. On second thought, it would be an amazing feature for https://prologue.audio, which is a beautiful app and works very well for audiobooks already.

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Re:Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI c... by SamBorick on Monday October 07, 2024 @08:08AM (#41765183)

ReadEra Pro is an ereader app with a decent text-to-speech, I often flip between reading and listening.

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Re:Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI c... by babs42 on Monday October 07, 2024 @10:20AM (#41766275)

Try out Storyteller, they're working on this exact problem: https://smoores.gitlab.io/storyteller/

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Re:Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI c... by dewey on Monday October 07, 2024 @10:26AM (#41766339)

Very cool, thanks for sharing! I'll follow the project and hope there's some way to get this running on Kobo or other eInk readers in the future.

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Re:Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI c... by NoahKAndrews on Monday October 07, 2024 @11:43PM (#41773630)

It's using an oft-ignored part of the ePub standard, so I think all that should be needed for Kobo support is implementation of that part of the standard in KOReader.

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