Audiblez is a free open-source AI audiobook maker using AI voices, and (as of this week) it has a graphical user-interface (GUI). It runs locally and installs on pure Python 3.x with no CUDA or PyTorch dependencies (unless you want them). It runs on the PC’s CPU not the graphics card, and (though slow) even older PCs should be able to ‘read’ a book to an audiobook audio-file overnight.
This may interest those otherwise unable to run local text-to-speech AI systems, for instance because they have an antique graphics card or Windows 7 on the target PC.
Requires: Official Python 3.7.1 64-bit or higher, or use the current Python fork for Windows 7.
Background information: Windows 7 users are blocked from running almost all local AIs due to the impassable combination of requirements for: i) NVIDIA graphics cards drivers, ii) CUDA; and iii) the PyTorch add-on for Python. The above audiobook-making software only requires pure Python 3.x and enough CPU power.
Use case: Generating AI commercial-use audio voices at length, for free, to accompany an animation, videogame, motion-comic etc.
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