Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by OMG! Ubuntu / It's FOSS News / 9to5Linux / Fedora Magazine / Ubuntu Blog / Arch News / Debian News at 09 Oct, 16:27 UTC

A new update to the Calibre ebook manager is out and it brings more natural sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, as well as AVIF image support and better handling of PDFs that put text in columns. Calibre v9.16 adds support for Kokoro, an open-weight TTS model, to its Read Aloud feature (which to…

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• T2Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robotOMG! Ubuntu / It's FOSS News / 9to5Linux / Fedora Magazine / Ubuntu Blog / Arch News / Debian News09 Oct, 16:27