For those who do not want to paste OpenAIkeys to other peoples web pages, there are local solutions.

For example, these audiobook generators runs fully offline. https://github.com/Finrandojin/alexandria-audiobook https://github.com/senigami/audiobook-studio.pinokio https://github.com/topics/audiobook-generator

I do similar things, just use ElevenLabs for tts - a good selection of voices.

A good protip - tell an agent to rewrite the article slightly for better listening flow. Some subtle changes in sentence structure etc can make listening way more pleasant.

Same here.

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2024/Apr/reading-articles-via-p...

I use the TTS on Google Cloud. It's effectively free.

What TTS do you use? I find the OpenAI ones really unpleasant to listen to and elevenlabs is better but still not quite right somehow.

Oh man. I did something similar but didn’t do the last mile with the cloud bucket and RSS stream and that seems key. I never have the energy to manually copy the mp3s over to the phone.

Same here. 75% of my podcast listening time come from content generated by claude and voxtral these days (tts from mistral).

RSS -> Apple podcast. Love it!

Sounds great! Any interest in open sourcing your approach?

If someone sends me AI generatef audio they're reccomending, I from then on out see them differently and not in a good way. I dont even want to read the outputs of an LLM let alone listen to them. Wild.

Here you can listen to examples: https://pdftomp3.com/examples/

Via MCP more voices are available (all OpenAI and Gemini voices, depending on which api key you use).

Let me guess, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Its about the whole pipeline. From adding a PDF to listening in the car (with the app).

minutes not hours

The title is misleading - should be "Use your openai subscription AND a TTS api key"

Much less interesting.

There are two parts to the processing. The processing of the document itself is done on your OpenAI/Codex subscription. Additionally, you have to submit an API key for the text-to-speech processing. There you can use a Gemini key or an OpenAI key.

title literally says "Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks" so im also confused lol

edit: i guess this explains it, its sorta half half

Your subscription will be used for:

    document processing (via MCP)already paid by your subscription

    generating speechOpenAI charges per usage

Thanks! Currently, I'm using Gemini TTS and Kokoro TTS as a free option. Kokoro is fast and I can run it on my own server, but I'm not using it as a standard yet because Gemini supports more languages and has more voices available. But text-to-speech processing is the biggest bottleneck at the moment.

At home this is super easy, use one of the multiple TTS models out there and provide a clean clip of Morgan Freeman's voice. Typically around 10 seconds will do. I just run a python script to daily scan my FreshRSS sources, compile my news and generate a 'podcast' that's about 10 minutes for a morning listen. Currently using F5-TTS, but there are lot's of other models out there as well.

Claude has gotten pretty sensitive to copyright. In addition to the no song lyrics that was posted in another article, I also find it will not generally transcribe podcasts (you have to play with model versions and even effort inside that).

It handles the formatting of scientific papers very well. E.g. I can exclude footnotes etc. But I didn't test it much with tables yet.