Thread: [GUI Plugin] TTS to MP3: Create MP3 audiobook using Windows TTS
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Old 01-10-2021, 05:42 PM   #97
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Originally Posted by dunhill View Post
Since calibre can read aloud on both windows and linux, will it be possible to make your plugin work on linux?
I suppose it's possible that it might now be more technically feasible than it used to be but I'm not a Linux user (nor a Mac user, in case anyone asks) so have no way to experiment/test myself to assess the size of the task. As it stands all the plugin's calls to do the speech basics are using Windows-specific utilities, i.e.
  • record speech to WAV and/or speak aloud (calibre's ISpVoice from calibre_extensions.winsapi)
  • convert WAV to MP3 (lame.exe is Windows only)

It would need a Linux expert with an interest and with calibre plugin experience to volunteer their time/effort to make any progress at all.
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