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