[HN Gopher] Show HN: Convert ePub to audio files
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       Show HN: Convert ePub to audio files
        
       A 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.
        
       Author : rafael1mc
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2024-12-22 17:15 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | the_third_wave wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | shinycode wrote:
       | Eleven labs does it for free (for now) and it works pretty well,
       | multiple voices available and some are high quality
        
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