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Deepak Raj
Deepak Raj

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Python command line tool to listen to your favourite book

There are already a few apps available on market for audiobooks for android and other platforms. For some time there are no library for audiobooks in python. So I decided to create one. I have created a library for audiobooks. It's very easy to use. You can use it for your project. It's under development. I will add more features in the future.

Listening to audiobooks is really helpful for person developement, learning. you can listen to audiobooks while doing other work like cooking, cleaning, driving, etc.

it saves your time and you can learn more. with the help of AudioBook you can also create your library of audiobook.

Features

we are using pyttsx3 engine to convert text to speech and different file reader libraries to read different file formats.

it's available on PyPI. You can install it using pip.

pip install audiobook
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Currently, it supports 6 document formats. You can listen to pdf, Docx, epub, txt, HTML, and Mobi files.
you can use it as a command line tool. It's very easy to use. also you can use it as a library in your project.
few basic features are implemented in the CLI tool. There will be more features in the future.

Command line tool

Check the AudioBook version

audiobook --version
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To listen your favorite book

audiobook -p <file_path> -r
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Save the audio file

audiobook -p <file_path> -s
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we will be implementing a few features soon in a short time, like speed control, pause, resume, voice selection, saving audio file page wise and many more.

Hit the star button if you like it. Expecting your feedback.

The source code is available on GitHub. you can contribute to it. you can also create issues if you find any bugs.

Here is the Github link.
Full documentation is available on ReadTheDocs

This project is developed by the Py-Contributors team. which is an open-source community.
we are working on many open-source projects. you can also contribute to our project.

Thanks for reading.

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