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@KindleAZWorKFX,
I'm not sure what else I can say that I haven't already said. I don't have the technical skill-set to write a plugin which will interface with Chrome or any other web-based app. @BetterRed, As for Balabolka, I looked at the main website yesterday. I didn't see any teasers about plans to work with cloud-based voices - but that doesn't prove anything, of course. Let's wait and see. Perhaps a relevant point is that I do have this app loaded on my PC (as a portable app rather than fully installed), but the only voices available by default were the ones in the Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Speech Server\v11.0 On a more general point the handling of voices in Windows looks like a bit of a dark art. There is endless repetition of voice code throughout the registry. Even in the MS Edge section the same voices are listed in two different places. This is the key for one of them on my PC Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Software\Microsoft\Speech_OneCore\Isolated\k6BwW5fty3XWMlmQDjzUq77TXIsLVjJGt268p8btklc\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech_OneCore\Voices\Tokens\MSTTS_V110_enGB_SusanM] |
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TTS to MP3 upgrade 0.4.0
Plugin should now work with both calibre current production version (v4.15) and calibre python3 beta versions v4.99.x. If any problems, please report them here. |
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Any chance of this being modified to work on Macs or Linux boxes?
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There may be Mac/Linux utilities around which could replace the LAME.exe (free) Windows utility which converts from .WAV to .MP3, but the utilities necessary to do the initial conversion from text to .WAV (including the Voices used) are part of Windows itself. If there is similar built-in functionality and Voices for Mac and/or Linux it would need someone who is familiar with those OS's to do the research and work. |
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Linux user's could use something like this:
https://github.com/mozilla/TTS Ideally you'd run a docker with an imported model already trained and then have the calibre plugin interface with that. Google's TTS is rather expensive at $16/1m characters, the first 1m/month is free though, perhaps an implementation to that would be worthwhile as well. |
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subtitles
is it possible to create subtitles (I'm using VLC to play the mp3's). What output format should be used?
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As I've already outlined in post #12, this plugin is just a GUI wrapper to:
I don't know of any LAME options which would create a subtitles file. I seem to remember that I did consider adding the chapter text as MP3 lyrics, but, at the time, I had no success being able to do this automatically during MP3 creation. I'd be willing to look at that again if anyone wants to share knowledge about how to do it with commandline LAME (if it's possible). |
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@jackiew: the next release of calibre is no longer bundling pywin32 so you can tuse win32com/win32process/etc anymore. If there are particular APIs you need wrapped, i can add them to the calibrewinutil module, if you send me a list.
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But, I'm afraid I have no idea exactly what you're asking for in the bolded bit. Can you ask it in layman's terms, please? Are you asking which win32xxx modules I'm actually importing from and which specific parts of them I actually reference in the code? Or are you asking for something else entirely? The problem I have is that most of this plugin's low-level win32 code was inherited 'as-is' from someone else's calibre Viewer TTS plugin. I presume they understood it. Unfortunately they're long gone and my understanding of the win32 stuff is minimal. I realise this isn't ideal ... |
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- calibre 64-bit v5.2 - calibre 32-bit v4.23. I believe this is the full list of win32 imports: Code:
from win32com.client import WithEvents from win32com.client import Dispatch from win32com.client import DispatchBaseClass from win32com.client import CoClassBaseClass from win32com.client import CLSIDToClass from win32com.client import util as w32comclient_util from win32com.server import util as w32comserver_util from win32com.server.policy import EventHandlerPolicy from win32process import CreateProcess from win32process import STARTUPINFO from win32event import WaitForSingleObject from win32event import INFINITE from win32con import STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW, SW_HIDE, CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE Code:
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Hmm that's a rather large list. Will look into it, can you post your cleaned up plugin.
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The 'big black box' is the tts_typelib.py file. The other 2 files referencing win32xxx are utils.py and other_dlgs.py. I believe its possible that Code:
from win32process import CreateProcess from win32process import STARTUPINFO Also, the last 2 lines of the original list are all integer constants so I suppose I could just hard-code their values??? I don't know if they are subject to change over time. Last edited by jackie_w; 10-20-2020 at 10:50 PM. Reason: zip removed. See next post, #29, for updated list and zip |
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Is it safe to assume that for users of calibre version <= 4.23, the win32 modules will always be available? If so, I believe I now have subprocess working OK in python3/calibrev5.2 with unicode args. In which case the last 5 rows can be removed from my original list Code:
from win32com.client import WithEvents #function from win32com.client import Dispatch #function from win32com.client import DispatchBaseClass #class from win32com.client import CoClassBaseClass #class from win32com.client.CLSIDToClass import RegisterCLSIDsFromDict #function from win32com.client.util import Iterator as w32comclient_util_iterator #class from win32com.server.util import wrap as w32comserver_util_wrap #function from win32com.server.policy import EventHandlerPolicy #class from win32process import CreateProcess from win32process import STARTUPINFO from win32event import WaitForSingleObject from win32event import INFINITE from win32con import STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW, SW_HIDE, CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE The attached updated plugin still seems to work OK in v4.23 and v5.2 Last edited by jackie_w; 10-25-2020 at 06:40 PM. Reason: zip removed, no longer relevant |
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Yes, for 4.x they are. I will take a look at the rest.
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