Narrative streams and converts English language e-books and other text sources for your listening pleasure.

• Uses lightweight KittenTTS models for Text-to-Speech conversion, no need for GPU or AI account to run.
• Supports multiple input formats including EPUB, MOBI, AZW3 , HTML, Markdown and plain text.
• Chapter Selection, Bookmarking support and Playback controls included.
• Built-in Text to MP3 converter.
• Voice selection.
• Built in phoneme editor/debugger.
• Proudly crafted without use of AI.

Installation

• Go

go install github.com/exaroth/narrative/cmd/narrative@latest

• AUR

yay -S narrative

• Homebrew (MacOS)

brew tap exaroth/narrative
brew install narrative

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