Select a single non-DRM'd book in calibre (EPUB, AZW3 or KEPUB).
How to install: Preferences - Get plugins to enhance calibre Select TTS to MP3 then press Install
Uses metadata from the book and calibre library for the MP3 tags and filenames. You can use text from your selected book or copy/paste your own sample text for the Voice Tester. The file selection GUI ( see second attached screenshot) also contains a Voice Tester feature so you can easily try out the various voices installed on your PC. Useful if you don't want an MP3 for front- and backmatter pages. Allows you to select which of the ebook's content files you want to create MP3s from. I'm sharing it here with Doitsu's permission.įeatures: See first attached screenshot for main GUI screen. This was a fun project for me which provided a personal challenge to create a plugin which can run in the background. No waiting for a publisher to decide if/when an audiobook will be available.Ĭons: Obviously, automated TTS is not as good as a reading by a good professional voice artiste.īackground: The original idea came from Doitsu's Sigil plugin, Windows TTS output. Can be played on any MP3 player or smartphone app. If you are running an earlier version of calibre, v3.41-5.3 inclusive, please see post #2 which contains a zip for TTS to MP3 v0.4.1 which you can install manually. 
TTS to MP3 v0.5.4 will only run on calibre v5.4 or above.See post #2 for more detail about which Voices will be visible to this plugin.The plugin uses Microsoft's built-in SAPI5 Text-to-Speech (TTS) software and Voices, therefore only available for Windows users.The selected book needs to be available in EPUB, AZW3 or KEPUB format. For most retail fiction ebooks this is likely to equate to one MP3 per chapter.
Purpose: This plugin can record a set of audiobook MP3 files for a non-DRM ebook in your calibre library. Hopefully the current version will continue to work OK in calibre 5.xx Unfortunately, due to unexpected issues at home, I am unable to provide any support for this plugin for the forseeable future.
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