Audiblez v4.0 is out: Generate Audiobooks from Ebooks (github.com)
from ReedReads@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 20:41
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More info here: claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html

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tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net on 10 Feb 21:57 next collapse

That sounds like a pretty cool project

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org on 10 Feb 22:03 next collapse

Too Bad there’s no German voice

specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works on 10 Feb 22:11 next collapse

Anyone tried it?

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub on 10 Feb 22:56 collapse

Yes. A previous version. It works pretty well for books you don’t need voice actors. If all you need is a reading voice, this will work relatively well. Just… don’t be me, and actual read the docs.

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 22:13 next collapse

So I’m curious, this presumably needs DRM free ebooks to begin with right? Chances are if you have those you have a line on audio books as well. Is this intended for the books that just aren’t available as audio books yet?

If you are visually impaired you can get free audio books from The Braille Institute.

brailleinstitute.org/…/how-to-get-free-audio-book…

jonathan@lemmy.in on 10 Feb 23:54 next collapse

I have over 100 purchased ebooks that I stripped the DRM from.

zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 12 Feb 02:47 collapse

Stripping for a good cause!

Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee on 11 Feb 00:21 next collapse

Some people have to buy ebooks with DRM to support the author but like to strip it using a Calibre plugin, for various reasons.

vividspecter@lemm.ee on 11 Feb 02:50 next collapse

Could be useful for web articles and scientific papers too (if it could be configured to ignore reading out all of the boiler plate and citations).

rumba@lemmy.zip on 11 Feb 06:38 collapse

I use moon reader pro and a premium tts voice.

If you can find an audiobook, it’ll be better, that said it’s really really easy to get epubs.

Also epubs are like a couple hundred k tops. So downloading them is super quick.

asqapro@reddthat.com on 11 Feb 04:32 next collapse

I’ve used a similar project in the past: github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook

It’s cool that more options are becoming available for ebook to audio conversions.

[deleted] on 11 Feb 08:41 next collapse

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fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works on 12 Feb 05:10 collapse

Dang I wish did more with the Mimic3 project. They have SSML support which just seems like an awesome way to address the mono voice issue in tts for books to me.