Kokoro
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Kokoro-82M
Converting e-books into audiobooks with the model
- Apache license, trained on less than 100 hours of audio
- Supports American English, British English, French, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and offers a variety of high-quality voices
- Users can use Kokoro through a tool called Audiblez, which converts e-books into audiobooks.
- Audiblez parses .epub files and converts the body text of the book into well-recorded audio files.
- For example, converting a book of about 100,000 words takes about 2 hours on an M2 MacBook Pro.
- Audiblez can be installed with pip on a computer with Python 3 installed.
- Does not work on Python 3.13.
- About 360MB of additional files must be downloaded.
- To convert an .epub file into an audiobook, run the command.
- The language can be specified with the -l option; supported language codes are en-us, en-gb, fr-fr, ja, ko, cmn.
- The voice can be specified with the -v option, and a variety of voices are offered.
- Chapter detection is a bit unreliable, but it can find the core chapters in most .epub files.
- If a chapter of interest is not included, you can try adjusting the is_chapter function in the code.
- The Audiblez project is available on GitHub.
- Future improvements include better chapter detection, adding chapter navigation, and adding narration for images.