Abogen: Convert EPUBs, PDFs, and Text to Audiobooks with Synced Subtitles
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Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Abogen is a text-to-speech conversion tool that transforms ePub, PDF, or text files into high-quality audio with synchronized subtitles. It supports various use cases like audiobooks and social media voiceovers, leveraging the Kokoro-82M model for natural-sounding speech. The tool is efficient, as demonstrated by a 5-second demo generating a minute of audio with synced captions. Installation instructions are provided for Windows.
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This demo was generated in just 5 seconds, producing ∼1 minute of audio with perfectly synced subtitles.
Use it for audiobooks, voiceovers for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or any project that needs natural-sounding text-to-speech, using Kokoro-82M.
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