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I personally love using Piper to make audiobooks offline. I made a CLI wrapper over it and it works great for me [0] Honestly surprised more people aren't using
by C-Loftus 2y ago
I personally love using Piper to make audiobooks offline. I made a CLI wrapper over it and it works great for me [0] Honestly surprised more people aren't using similar offline tools. I have listened to dozens of audiobooks in the past year through this.
There is a pitfall in thinking that the most natural voice is the most important metric (i.e. many blind users still prefer espeak). Piper has a great balance of natural voice, offline convenience/privacy, and interpretability at high speeds. Still have not seen anything better as an overall audiobook solution.
https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook
- westcort 2y agoI am excited to try it! Could you add a prebuilt release? Would it be possible to post a sample output so people can judge for themselves whether they would like the quality available?
- C-Loftus 2y agoYes I do have prebuilt rolling releases. Since they are categorized as draft releases, GitHub hides them by default, but they are there and should work fine: https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/releases/ https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/releases/ Examples of Piper generally can be found at https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ , and I added my program can be found at https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/tree/master/examples https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/tree/master/... I added this info in the readme for you and anyone else that could benefit from it.
- westcort 2y agoI could not find anything at the on the releases page (https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/releases/ https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/releases/) This is what I see: https://imgur.com/screenshot-PqmyqhT https://imgur.com/screenshot-PqmyqhT Do I need a GitHub account to see the draft releases?
- nilsherzig 2y agoAre your audiobooks mainly non-fiction books? I would really miss the personality a good speaker can give each character.
- C-Loftus 2y agoYes I mainly read non-fiction and I think your point is valid. That being said, I do listen to a fair amount of books that include interviews or travel writing with multiple characters and it still works well for me.