On: Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio

[C-Loftus]

Synthesized voices are legitimately a great way to read more and give your eyes a break. I personally prefer just converting a page or book to an audiobook myself locally. The new piper TTS models are easy to run locally and work very well. I made a simple CLI application and some other folks here liked it so figured I post it.

https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook

[frays → C-Loftus]

Thanks for sharing, I tried to build and set this up on my Macbook (ARM/M1) but seems that Piper currently doesn't support MacOS yet.

This is a very useful tool, I will Star it and wait until Piper supports MacOS in the future.

[dv35z → frays]

I got Piper TTS running in a Docker container (I found that the issue is related to Python version and "phenomenize" library). If you're curious / interested in getting this to work, happy to help out & share the code. My contact is in my profile.