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aedocw / epub2tts

Turn an epub or text file into an audiobook
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Possible to use edge tts or local spd-say? #210

Closed jpenguin closed 3 months ago

jpenguin commented 4 months ago

https://github.com/p0n1/epub_to_audiobook allows the use of free cloud-based edge tts. It isn't as good as coqui, but being cloud based is very fast.

I also have several voices from https://www.oralux.org/, I can use with spd-say on linux. Is it possible to use these?

aedocw commented 4 months ago

That's really interesting, I use Audiobookshelf but had not see epub_to_audiobook, it looks really nice!

I'll play around with it, and edge, and see if it makes sense to incorporate it. The default voice does sound decent, and means this is available to create an audiobook quickly for folks who do not have a GPU. Thanks for pointing me to this, I'll update here when I've got time to work on it (it should be pretty straightforward to add edge).

aedocw commented 3 months ago

Adding edge-tts now under https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts/issues/220

aedocw commented 3 months ago

I'm closing this, as I do not plan to add spd-say since it's linux only, and I want this to work basically the same on linux, windows and macos. I did add support for edge, and wish I had done it sooner as it's pretty excellent, thanks for suggesting it!