Ask HN: Locally Run Text to Speech+AI: ePub|PDF –> Audio Book

Re:Ask HN: Locally Run Text to Speech+AI: ePub|PDF –> Audio ... by zertrin on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:16PM (#43082325)

Just a couple days ago, I saw this project mentioned. Looks promising but I haven't had the time to try it yet so this isn't an endorsement.

https://claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html

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Re:Ask HN: Locally Run Text to Speech+AI: ePub|PDF –> Audio ... by satvikpendem on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:36PM (#43083064)

Also this: https://github.com/prakharsr/audiobook-creator/

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Re:Ask HN: Locally Run Text to Speech+AI: ePub|PDF –> Audio ... by mrjay42 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:17AM (#43088017)

Aaaand checking this one out too. Thanks :3

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Re:Ask HN: Locally Run Text to Speech+AI: ePub|PDF –> Audio ... by mrjay42 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:12AM (#43087995)

Thanks, I'm gonna check it out right now.

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Re:Ask HN: Locally Run Text to Speech+AI: ePub|PDF –> Audio ... by mrjay42 on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:02AM (#43137654)

Just coming back here for a little report. This tool "audiblez" works fine and out of the box.

Pros:

* works out of the box

* text to speech available in many languages!!

* Audio output in .wav -> easily convertible into something else

* automatically creates chapters based on the book

The limitations are: * the voices are very "AI"-style, so they sound emotionless, we're far from anything resembling any kind of acting;

* the conversion of a book into an audiobook might just crash if the script encounters a character that it doesn't know how to convert.

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Re:Ask HN: Locally Run Text to Speech+AI: ePub|PDF –> Audio ... by zertrin on Sunday February 23, 2025 @11:11AM (#43150331)

Yes I've also tried it and reached similar conclusions. Do update it to the latest version though, as I did report an issue with non ASCII characters and for me it got fixed in v0.4.7+

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