Turn an ebook into a summarized audiobook.
Stiches together some awesome technologies:
- pszemraj/document-summarization Text summarization
- rhasspy/piper Text To Speech
First install dependencies:
brew tap homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg
brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac
Next setup the python environment:
pipenv
pipenv install
Next setup piper. If you can compile/use already compiled do so, on Apple Silicon I had to use a Docker solution:
git clone https://github.com/rhasspy/piper.git
cd piper
docker buildx build --target build -t piper:latest .
Run the container in another tab so it runs indefinitely:
docker run -it --entrypoint bash piper:latest
Download the voices you want to use (currently hardcoded to en_GB-alba-medium):
mkdir piper-voices
curl -OL https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_GB/alba/medium/en_GB-alba-medium.onnx
curl -OL https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_GB/alba/medium/en_GB-alba-medium.onnx.json
Add an epub into epubs with the following format:
author-title.epub
william_shakespeare-king_lear.epub
And finally run:
pipenv run python main.py ebooks/william_shakespeare-king_lear.epub
Summarized text and tagged mp3 will be output to:
summaries/william_shakespeare-king_lear.txt
summaries/william_shakespeare-king_lear.mp3