📚 ebook2audiobook

Convert eBooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using Calibre and Coqui XTTS. Supports optional voice cloning and multiple languages!

🌟 Features

• 📖 Converts eBooks to text format with Calibre.
• 📚 Splits eBook into chapters for organized audio.
• 🎙️ High-quality text-to-speech with Coqui XTTS.
• 🗣️ Optional voice cloning with your own voice file.
• 🌍 Supports multiple languages (English by default).
• 🖥️ Designed to run on 4GB RAM.

🛠️ Requirements

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

🔧 Installation Instructions

1. Install Python 3.x from Python.org.

2. Install Calibre:

   • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y calibre
   • macOS: brew install calibre
   • Windows (Admin Powershell): choco install calibre

3. Install FFmpeg:

   • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y ffmpeg
   • macOS: brew install ffmpeg
   • Windows (Admin Powershell): choco install ffmpeg

4. Optional: Install Mecab (for non-Latin languages):

   • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y mecab libmecab-dev mecab-ipadic-utf8
   • macOS: brew install mecab, brew install mecab-ipadic
   • Windows (Admin Powershell): choco install mecab (Note: Japanese support is limited)

5. Install Python packages:

   pip install tts==0.21.3 pydub nltk beautifulsoup4 ebooklib tqdm

   For non-Latin languages:

   python -m unidic download
   pip install mecab mecab-python3 unidic

🌐 Supported Languages

• 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.

🚀 Usage

🖥️ Gradio Web Interface

1. Run the Script:

   python custom_model_ebook2audiobookXTTS_gradio.py

2. Open the Web App: Click the URL provided in the terminal to access the web app and convert eBooks.

📝 Basic Usage

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

• <path_to_ebook_file>: Path to your eBook file.
• [path_to_voice_file]: Optional for voice cloning.
• [language_code]: Optional to specify language.

🧩 Custom XTTS Model

python custom_model_ebook2audiobookXTTS.py <ebook_file_path> <target_voice_file_path> <language> <custom_model_path> <custom_config_path> <custom_vocab_path>

• <ebook_file_path>: Path to your eBook file.
• <target_voice_file_path>: Optional for voice cloning.
• : Optional to specify language.
• <custom_model_path>: Path to model.pth.
• <custom_config_path>: Path to config.json.
• <custom_vocab_path>: Path to vocab.json.

🐳 Using Docker

You can also use Docker to run the eBook to Audiobook converter. This method ensures consistency across different environments and simplifies setup.

🚀 Running the Docker Container

To run the Docker container and start the Gradio interface, use the following command:

-Run with CPU only

docker run -it --rm -p 7860:7860 athomasson2/ebook2audiobookxtts:latest

-Run with GPU Speedup (Nvida graphics cards only)

docker run -it --rm --gpus all -p 7860:7860 athomasson2/ebook2audiobookxtts:latest

This command will start the Gradio interface on port 7860.(localhost:7860)

🖥️ Docker GUI

🛠️ For Custom Xtts Models

Models built to be better at a specific voice. Check out my Hugging Face page here.

To use a custom model, paste the link of the Finished_model_files.zip file like this:

David Attenborough fine tuned Finished_model_files.zip

More details can be found at the Dockerfile Hub Page.

🌐 Fine Tuned Xtts models

To find already fine-tuned XTTS models, visit this Hugging Face link 🌐. Search for models that include "xtts fine tune" in their names.

🎥 Demos

Magic.Tree.House.45.Osborne.Mary.Pope.-.A.Crazy.Day.With.Cobras.mp4

📚 Supported eBook Formats

• .epub, .pdf, .mobi, .txt, .html, .rtf, .chm, .lit, .pdb, .fb2, .odt, .cbr, .cbz, .prc, .lrf, .pml, .snb, .cbc, .rb, .tcr
• Best results: .epub or .mobi for automatic chapter detection

📂 Output

• Creates an .m4b file with metadata and chapters.
• Example Output:

🙏 Special Thanks

• Coqui TTS: Coqui TTS GitHub
• Calibre: Calibre Website