Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
by micw on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:11AM
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That's a bit of basic and random. Some models have the features you describe. From the better models you get a slightly different voice for text in quotes.
But the difference to good audio books is that you have * different voices for the narrator and each character * different emotions and/or speed in certain situations.
I guess you could use a LLM to "understand" and annotate an existing book if there's a markup and then use TTS to create an audio book from it and so automate most of the the process.
Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
by micw on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:14AM
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Edit: I actually tried this. I prompted in ChatGPT:
"Annotate the following text with speakers and emotions so that it can be turned into an audiobook via TTS", followed by a short text from "The Hobbit" (The "Good morning scene"). The result is very good.
TortoiseTTS has a few examples under prompt engineering on their demo site: https://nonint.com/static/tortoise_v2_examples.html