Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
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Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#2can I choose any voice? would love to read software engineering books in voice of Morgan Freeman, or maybe even better, Scarlett Johansson
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#3The demo video doesn't seem to have any audio in it! At least none that either ffmpeg or whatever Firefox uses can recognize.
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#4I've been using Kokoro TTS with the CLI app, audiblez, mentioned in the "Similar Projects" section of the README. The model is fast and delivers impressive quality for its small size. Some issues I have faced, however, are:
a) It doesn't distinguish periods at the end of sentences from the dots in abbreviations such as "Mr." or "Mrs." The result is an awkward pause between "Mr." and the name.
b) It doesn't handle ellipses well.
c) Words are pronounced the same way regardless of context.
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#5I've been using Kokoro TTS with the CLI app, audiblez, mentioned in the "Similar Projects" section of the README. The model is fast and delivers impressive quality for its small size. Some issues I have faced, however, are: a) It doesn't distinguish periods at the end of sentences from the dots in abbreviations such as "Mr." or "Mrs." The result is an awkward pause between "Mr." and the name. b) It doesn't handle ell…
The Mr. / Mrs. thing feels like it would be a pretty easy fix, at least to eliminate a lot of the more common cases.
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#6The demo video doesn't seem to have any audio in it! At least none that either ffmpeg or whatever Firefox uses can recognize.
I can hear it on safari
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#7Does it turn it into spoken word or an audiobook?
Because good audiobooks often have voice actors that read the characters with different emphasis and dialects.
I imagine tools like chatgpt could do this for a few sentences but what about an 8-20 hour audiobook?
I think there are still basic hurdles to take before we can go epub to audiobook in a quality that can compete with current state of the art.
Or am I missing something?
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#8The demo video doesn't seem to have any audio in it! At least none that either ffmpeg or whatever Firefox uses can recognize.
Same on my end, no audio in the video.
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#9can I choose any voice? would love to read software engineering books in voice of Morgan Freeman, or maybe even better, Scarlett Johansson
Why not Stephen Hawking ?
Re: Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
#10The demo video doesn't seem to have any audio in it! At least none that either ffmpeg or whatever Firefox uses can recognize.
Same here, but it worked when I opened it in Chrome. What a weird error - you would think that playing an embedded mp4 with audio wouldn't differ from browser to browser.