{"id":22820,"date":"2025-02-10T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=22820"},"modified":"2025-02-10T21:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:00:42","slug":"release-audiblez-with-gui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/release-audiblez-with-gui\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: Audiblez with GUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/santinic\/audiblez\">Audiblez<\/a> 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&#8217;s CPU not the graphics card, and (though slow) even older PCs should be able to &#8216;read&#8217; a book to an audiobook audio-file overnight. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Requires: Official Python 3.7.1 64-bit or higher, or use the current <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/adang1345\/PythonWin7\">Python fork for Windows 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Use case: Generating AI commercial-use audio voices at length, for free, to accompany an animation, videogame, motion-comic etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s CPU not the graphics card, and (though slow) even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-freebies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22825,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions\/22825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}