This repository contains a Python script that converts text files to audiobooks. It splits the input text file into smaller chunks and processes each chunk using text-to-speech services. You can choose between a free TTS service and OpenAI's TTS API.
- Splits large text files into chunks small enough to ship off to TTS services.
- Verifies that chunking does not alter the text content.
- Converts text chunks to speech using either a free TTS service or OpenAI's TTS API.
- Supports parallel processing with multiple threads.
- Python 3.x
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/greg-randall/genny.git cd genny -
Install the required libraries:
pip install -r requirements.txt
To run the script, use the following command:
python3 genny.py <inputfile> [--usefreetts true|false] [--threads <num_threads>]<inputfile>: Path to the text file to be processed.--usefreetts: Optional. Set totrueto use the free TTS service (default) orfalseto use OpenAI's TTS API (make sure to add your OpenAi API key to envrioment variables).--threads: Optional. Number of threads to use for parallel processing, default: 24 (note that this is not typically processor bound, it's internet bandwidth bound or requests per minute bound).
python3 genny.py example.txt