📖 Audiobook Studio

Turn any text into a narrated audiobook — right from your desktop, no GPU required.

Load a PDF, EPUB, plain text file, or paste content directly. Pick a voice (or clone your own from a short audio clip), tweak the speed and tone, and generate a full MP3 audiobook. The app intelligently splits your text at sentence boundaries, generates each section, and merges everything into one file.

Powered by PocketTTS by Kyutai — a lightweight text-to-speech model that runs entirely on CPU. This is the current choice as new open source models come out it will be updated.

✨ Features

• Audiobook Generation — Convert entire books and long documents into spoken audio
• Voice Cloning — Clone any voice from a short .wav or .mp3 sample
• 8 Built-in Voices — alba, marius, javert, jean, fantine, cosette, eponine, azelma
• Import Anything — PDFs, EPUBs, TXT files, or scrape text from any URL
• Smart Chunking — Splits at sentence boundaries for natural-sounding breaks
• Tone & Speed Control — Adjust expressiveness and playback speed
• Auto MP3 Export — Merges all chunks into a single MP3 file
• Stop & Resume — Pause generation and pick up from any chapter/chunk
• No GPU Needed — Runs entirely on CPU
• One-Click Install — No Python setup required

🚀 Quick Start

Double-click run_pocket_embedded.bat — it downloads everything automatically:

1. Embedded Python 3.12
2. FFmpeg for audio processing
3. CPU-only PyTorch + all dependencies
4. Launches the app

First run takes a few minutes to set up. After that, launches are instant.

🛠️ Manual Setup

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
pip install -r requirements.txt
python PocketTTSUI.py

🖱️ Controls

Button	What it does
Browse (Ref Audio)	Select an audio clip to clone that voice
Browse (Output Dir)	Choose where your audiobook is saved
📄 Load PDF/Text/EPUB	Import text from a document
🌐 Scrape from URL	Pull article or chapter text from a web page
Export Chunk / Export All	Save chunk text to .txt files for review
📁 Open Folder	Open the output directory
▶ Generate Speech	Start generating your audiobook
⏹ Stop	Cancel after the current chunk finishes
🔊 Quick Sample	Preview your voice + settings before committing

Setting	What it controls
Voice Name	Built-in voice (used when no audio clip is provided)
Chunk Size	Words per section — smaller = better quality
Temperature	Lower = consistent narration, Higher = expressive
Speed	0.5x to 2.0x playback speed
Start Chunk	Resume from a specific section
Combine into MP3	Merge all sections into one audiobook file

📖 Tips

• Best chunk size: 50–200 words for natural-sounding narration
• Temperature: 0.3–0.5 for audiobooks, 0.8+ for dramatic reads
• Interrupted? Set "Start Chunk" to resume where you left off
• Files save to the app's folder if no output directory is set

📄 License

Uses PocketTTS by Kyutai Labs — see their repo for model licensing.

⚠️ Ethics & Responsibility

Please use this tool responsibly.*

Voice cloning technology is powerful but carries ethical risks.

• Do not clone voices without consent.
• Do not generate content intended to deceive, defraud, or harass.
• Always label AI-generated content appropriately.