autiobooks 0.1

Automatically convert epubs to audiobooks

Autiobooks Automatically convert epubs to audiobooks

Autiobooks generates .m4b audiobooks from regular .epub e-books, using Kokoro's high-quality speech synthesis.

Kokoro v0.19 is a recently published text-to-speech model with just 82M params and very natural sounding output. It's released under Apache licence and it was trained on < 100 hours of audio. It currently supports American, British English, French, Korean, Japanese and Mandarin, and a bunch of very good voices.

How to install and run

If you have Python 3 on your computer, you can install it with pip. Be aware that it won't work with Python 3.13. Then you also need to download a couple of additional files in the same folder, which are about ~360MB:

pip install autiobooks

To start the program, run:

autiobooks

It will first create a bunch of book_chapter_1.wav, book_chapter_2.wav, etc. files in the same directory, and at the end it will produce a book.m4b file with the whole book you can listen with VLC or any audiobook player. It will only produce the .m4b file if you have ffmpeg installed on your machine.

Author

by David Nesbitt, distributed under MIT license. Check out the excellent project https://github.com/sanatic/audiblez if you'd prefer a command-line interface. This project uses some code from the project but will diverge.