Hacker News with Generative AI: Audiobooks

Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M (claudio.uk)
Kokoro v0.19 is a recently published text-to-speech model with just 82M params and very high-quality output.
Text-to-Speech, Generative AI, Software, Audiobooks
415 points by csantini 3 days ago | 242 comments
Show HN: Convert ePub to audio files (github.com/rafael1mc)
Convert ePUB into audio files.
Software, Audiobooks, Ebooks
45 points by rafael1mc 27 days ago | 9 comments
Why my new audiobook is everywhere except on Audible (pragmaticengineer.com)
Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
Audiobooks, Business, Monopolies, Competition
14 points by ingve 38 days ago | 2 comments
Audible's Monopolistic Practices (pragmaticengineer.com)
A year after The Software Engineer’s Guidebook was published, the audiobook version is here! The good news is it’s available on ALMOST all major audiobook platforms:
Audiobooks, Business, Monopolies
27 points by nico401 38 days ago | 3 comments
Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening (dynomight.substack.com)
There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One of the examples given was:
Audiobooks, Dystopia, Life Hacks
6 points by gregorymichael 100 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command (github.com/C-Loftus)
Create a natural audiobook for any text content with one command.
Audiobooks
105 points by C-Loftus 103 days ago | 44 comments
Show HN: 73,530 free book summaries in 40 languages (with paid audio) (sobrief.com)
Read any non-fiction in 10 minutes
Books, Summaries, Language Learning, Audiobooks
39 points by jazz3020 109 days ago | 46 comments
AI audiobooks – 10% more audiobooks this year than all of 2023 (bookrank.io)
Artificial Intelligence, Audiobooks, Books, Industry Trends
10 points by bye 155 days ago | 16 comments
Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech (listenly.io)
OpenAI, Text-to-Speech, Audiobooks, Generative AI, Show HN
140 points by evan_ry 188 days ago | 109 comments
Show HN: Devirtualize Audible- extension removes Virtual/AI audiobook narrators (github.com/montsamu)
Software, Accessibility, Audiobooks, Open Source
4 points by randycupertino 192 days ago | 1 comments