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Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M

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Re: Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M

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I'm using Firefox and I do not see this option. Probably not working on Linux?

You might need to install/setup Speech Dispatcher. I was just using this implementation with Piper: https://github.com/Elleo/pied?tab=readme-ov-file . However easier way to read articles aloud is with Read Aloud extension: https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud .

That worked, thanks, though I find the speech quality in both options absolutely painful to listen to. The above WASM solution sounds about 100x better...

Re: Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M

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post #33

Can anyone recommend an open source option that would allow training on a custom voice (my own, so I'd be able to record as many snippets as it needed to train on) to allow me to use it for TTS generation without sharing it off my machine? Edit: I'll wait to see if any recommendations get made here, if not I might give this one a go: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

F5-TTS, I wrote a post about it https://eamag.me/2025/Voice-Cloning

Re: Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M

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post #4

This looks incredible! I’ve had an idea simmering in the back of my mind for a while now: creating an audiobook from an ebook for my commute using the voice of a specific audiobook narrator I really enjoy. The concept struck me after coming across the Infinite Conversation project here on HN. Unfortunately, I just haven’t found the time to bring it to life yet. :(

For a specific narrator you can try F5-TTS, here's a post how https://eamag.me/2025/Voice-Cloning
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