Show HN: Convert ePub to audio files
github.comA way to generate .mp3 files from ePUB.
I wanted to continue "reading" even after my eyes got tired or if I went away from the screen. For these cases, what I did was select a given text, and select "Speech". If you've used this before, you know it's fine for small sections, but not for big chunks of text.
So, I challenged myself to create a project that would "text-to-speech" a given book. After some attempts, I came up with a good-enough initial version using Golang. It will parse an ePUB into sections and run MacOS's `say` command to generate audio files.
For now it's quite basic, but worked fine for the few files I tested.
Eleven labs does it for free (for now) and it works pretty well, multiple voices available and some are high quality
Another way of doing this is by using the 'Record TTS' facility of Librera Reader - a book reader for Android, available on F-Droid, no iOS version available as far as I know - which can use the TTS service on Android to narrate all formats supported by Librera to audio files.