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ebook2audiobook kaggle eddition

Generates an audiobook with chapters and ebook metadata using Calibre and Xtts from Coqui tts, and with optional voice cloning, and supports multiple languages

import this notebook to kaggle

https://github.com/Rihcus/ebook2audiobookXTTS/blob/main/kaggle-ebook2audiobook-demo.ipynb

Features

Converts eBooks to text format using Calibre's ebook-convert tool.
Splits the eBook into chapters for structured audio conversion.
Uses XTTS from Coqui TTS for high-quality text-to-speech conversion.
Optional voice cloning feature using a provided voice file.
Supports different languages for text-to-speech conversion, with English as the default.
Confirmed to run on only 4 gb ram

Requirements

Python 3.x
coqui-tts Python package
Calibre (for eBook conversion)
FFmpeg (for audiobook file creation)
Optional: Custom voice file for voice cloning

Installation Instructions for Dependencies

Install Python 3.x from Python.org.

Install Calibre:

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y calibre
macOS: brew install calibre
Windows(Powershell in Administrator mode): choco install calibre

Install FFmpeg:

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y ffmpeg
macOS: brew install ffmpeg
Windows(Powershell in Administrator mode): choco install ffmpeg

Install Mecab for (Non Latin-based Languages tts support)(Optional):

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y mecab libmecab-dev mecab-ipadic-utf8
macOS: brew install mecab, brew install mecab-ipadic
Windows(Powershell in Administrator mode no support for mecab-ipadic easy install so no Japanese for windows :/): choco install mecab

Install Python packages:

pip install tts pydub nltk beautifulsoup4 ebooklib tqdm

(For non Latin-based Languages tts support)(Optional)
python -m unidic download

pip install mecab mecab-python3 unidic

Supported Languages

The script supports the following languages for text-to-speech conversion:

English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Portuguese (pt), Polish (pl), Turkish (tr), Russian (ru), Dutch (nl), Czech (cs), Arabic (ar), Chinese (zh-cn), Japanese (ja), Hungarian (hu), Korean (ko)

Specify the language code when running the script to use these languages.

Usage

Navigate to the script's directory in the terminal and execute one of the following commands: If you have any trouble getting it to run in Windows then it should run fine in WSL2

Basic Usage: ALL PARAMETERS ARE MANDATORY WHEN CALLED THE SCRIPT

python ebook2audiobook.py <path_to_ebook_file> [path_to_voice_file] [language_code]

Replace with the path to your eBook file. include for voice cloning. include to specify the language

Demo

https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobookXTTS/assets/126999465/bccd7240-f967-4d27-a87d-445034db7d21

Supported ebook File Types:

.epub, .pdf, .mobi, .txt, .html, .rtf, .chm, .lit, .pdb, .fb2, .odt, .cbr, .cbz, .prc, .lrf, .pml, .snb, .cbc, .rb, and .tcr, (Best results are from using epub or mobi for auto chapter detection)

outputs as a m4b with all book metadata and chapters, example output file in an audiobook player app

A special thanks to the creaters of:

-Coqui TTS

-https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

-Calibre

-https://calibre-ebook.com