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Originally Posted by Quoth
I was thinking of investigating using PC to turn epubs into mp3s. I think on Linux there is a way to have the speech synthesis go to a file. There seems to be one OS wide text to Speech installed by default and options for maybe 3 others on Mint via Debian.
Anyone done this?
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Not a Linux solution - but if you run calibre on Windows you can use my old
TTS to MP3 calibre plugin to convert any de-DRM'd epub/azw3/kepub in your calibre library to a nicely named & tagged folder of MP3s (one-per-chapter).
On my nothing-special-PC the conversion runs at 20,000+ w.p.m. so an average novel should take <5 minutes.
Caveat: I'm no longer supporting or developing this plugin but it's not obsolete. It works fine on calibre 5.xx and should continue to work on the upcoming calibre 6.xx.