About The Project

This application takes in a filepath to an epub file and a language as parameters. From this it will create a bunch of mp3 files broken down by chapter in the audiobooks folder. I wanted to make this because a bunch of books I read don't have an associated audiobook and I get more reading done if I can supplement it with audio. The app uses the google text to speech npm lib to convert the text.

Hoping this helps you out also!

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Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/elinero/audiobook_converter.git
   

2. After checking out the repo run:

   npm i
   

3. Then you can use the start script to input the file path to your epub and the desired language

   npm run start /path/to/my/epub english
   

   The app will run and place the files in the audiobooks folder in a created sub folder for the audiobook. There should be a file created per book chapter.

   There is an example epub file in the epub folder called quiz.epub. You can try the app out using this epub.

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