mkab

Add some sanity to your reading workload. Make neural network sythesized audiobooks from text files.

Key Features • Install • Develop • Examples • Contributing • Todo • License

Key Features

• AWS Polly and Google Text to Speech Support
  • Note: AWS Polly support coming soon
• Simple command line interface
  • mkab synth reading.txt -o reading.ogg
• Fast! Uses concurrent requests to sythesize audio
  • Note: Feature under construction

Requirements

• Python 3
• Google Cloud API Key
• AWS API Key (client_id and secret)

Install

Install from source

The following commands install adds mkab to your $PATH

git clone https://github.com/grplyler/mkab.git
cd mkab
python setup.py install

Develop

git clone https://github.com/grplyler/nginup.git
cd nginup
python setup.py develop

Examples

Coming soon

Rationale

I created this tools to handle the ridiculous amount of reading I had in college. As a pretty good auditory learner with pretty bad dyslexia, it really helped! And in most cases, I felt like my comprehension was much better.

Contributing

If you like this project, here are some ways you can contribute!

• Feature Requests
• Bug Reports
• Platform Testing

Todo

• [] Add support for AWS Polly
• [] Add more convenient way to manage API config
• [] Add support for ssml for more control of voicing synthesis
• [] Add additional features to the command line interface
• [] Add more advanced text sanitization algorithms
• [] Create a web interface
• [] Deploy as a service there users can buy tokens that let them generate audiobooks instead of having to have an AWS or GCP API key

License

MIT