edgeab is a free and open-source Python app that easily creates a full-featured audiobook from an EPUB or text file using realistic text-to-speech from Edge-TTS.

Note: This project is a semi-remake of epub2tts-edge, but it's optimized for my use case, running approximately 8x faster (or at a minimum 4-5x) and using calibre for metadata.

• Generally takes about 10 minutes for the light novels I've tested this on from start to finished file.

🚀 Features

• Creates standard format M4B audiobook file
• Automatic chapter break detection
• Embeds cover art if specified (crops image to square)
• Utilizes Microsoft Edge for free cloud-based TTS
• Reads sentences in parallel for extremely fast audiobook creation (approximately 10x faster than epub2tts-edge)
• Resumes from the last point if interrupted (kind of)
• Embeds all the fun metadata pulled from a calibre opf file

Note: EPUB file must be DRM-free

📖 Usage

Convert EPUB to formatted TXT file:

edgeab -f "epubfile"

Alternatively, use epub2tts-edge:

edgeab -f "gen-file" -m "opfmetafile" -c "coverimage" -v "voice"

Updating

1. Navigate to the repository directory:

cd /path/to/repo

2. Pull the latest changes:

git pull

3. If you installed in a virtual environment, activate it:

source /path/to/venv/bin/activate

4. Upgrade the installation:

pip install . --upgrade

Thanks

A special thanks to the following projects that made edgeab possible:

• Edge-TTS
• epub2tts-edge

Author

The Ducktor

• GitHub: @The-Ducktor

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