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• Python 3.9-3.12 (Python 3.13+ is not currently supported)

Setup

1. Assumes python is setup (if you have a higher version setup a python venv)
2. Download and install Calibre application (https://calibre-ebook.com/download)
3. Run brew install calibre
4. Run pip install kokoro-tts
5. Download model files (in the venv) i. wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin ii. wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx

Convert epub to audiobook

1. Create a new folder inside /books directory and put your epub file in that folder
2. Run python 00_epub_to_txt.py <folder_name>
3. Review the output.txt file generated inside the folder remove any unwanted content
4. Run python 01_text_cleanup.py <folder_name> to clean up the generated text
5. Run python 02_split_chapters.py <folder_name> to split the book into chapterwise text files
6. Run python 03_txt_to_speech.py ./<folder_name>/chapters/<input_file_name>.txt ./<folder_name>/audio/<output_file_name.wav> to convert a single file into audio or python 03_txt_to_speech.py <folder_name> to convert all the files