QuickPiperAudiobook: a key to generate natural sound quality audiobooks, support for PDF, epub, docx and other formats

General Introduction

QuickPiperAudiobook is an open source project designed to convert various text formats (e.g. epub, mobi, txt, PDF, HTML, etc.) into natural-sounding audiobooks with one simple command. The tool uses the Piper model for conversion and manages the installation of Piper and related models. All conversion processes are done locally to ensure user privacy.

Function List

• Support multiple input formats: epub, mobi, txt, PDF, HTML, etc.
• High-quality audio conversion using the Piper model
• Managing Piper Installations and Associated Models
• Support for fetching and transforming content from remote URLs
• Offline conversion to ensure user privacy
• Automatic generation of configuration files to simplify the process

Using Help

Installation process

1. Download pre-built releases (or use go mod tidy && go build (Build from source).
2. downloading ebook-convert and make sure it's in your PATH (usually bundled with Calibre).
3. You don't need to pre-install Piper, the program manages Piper and related models automatically.

Usage

1. Generate audiobooks using local files or remote URLs as input:

   ./QuickPiperAudiobook test.txt
   

2. View all options:

   ./QuickPiperAudiobook --help
   

configuration file

• The program will automatically add a new value to the ~/.config/QuickPiperAudiobook/config.yml Generate a configuration file.
• You can set the default model and output path in the configuration file to simplify subsequent operations.

typical example

• The default output example can be found in the examples folder to find it.
• Other examples of pre-trained models can be found in the Piper Samples Found in.

caveat

• Piper does not currently support progress output.
• Longer books (600 pages or more) may take longer (30 minutes or more) to generate audio because all calculations are done locally.