EPUB to Conversational Audio: AI-Powered Podcast Generator

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:42:41 +0000

This script extracts text from an EPUB file, formats it, and converts it into an engaging audio podcast. It uses AI-based transcript generation, rewriting, and text-to-speech synthesis to create a conversational and captivating audio output.

Here is the source code

git clone https://github.com/namuan/llm-playground.git

Pre-Requisites:

MLX Qwen2.5 Models:
- These will be downloaded when the script runs for the first time.

FIRST_PASS_LLM = "mlx-community/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-4bit"
SECOND_PASS_LLM = "mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit"

Although you can configure a different MLX model if you already have it downloaded.

Installing Tortoise TTS

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 20:47:29 +0000

These instructions are only tested on macOS and valid on 1st of January 2023.

git clone https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git

cd tortoise-tts

python3.9 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip install torch torchvision

python3.9 setup.py install

pip uninstall numpy
pip install numba

pip uninstall threadpoolctl
pip install scikit-learn==1.2.0

# Rerunning due to failures in the previous step because on mismatched versions
python3.9 setup.py install

pip install torchaudio

python tortoise/do_tts.py --text "I'm going to speak this" --voice random --preset fast

ls -l results
open results/random_0_0.wav

TTS on deskriders

EPUB to Conversational Audio: AI-Powered Podcast Generator

Pre-Requisites:

Installing Tortoise TTS