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Show HN: I built a smart audiobook converter that sounds human (not KokoroTTS)

https://www.book2speech.com/
2•orencoda•53m ago
Hi again!

Existing text to speech or ebook to audiobook apps usually rely on KokoroTTS and don't process the pdf in a reliable way, so it often ends up reading all the front matter/opening section OCR artifacts and other crap in a machine-sounding voice. My app first fixes the content structure using an LLM and then uses heavier models to get voices with natural intonation across more than 40 languages.

About a year ago when I posted this it was still just an idea, now its becoming a real thing. Any feedback appreciated.

Hyper Optimizing Kimi K3 in vLLM

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1•torutofu•2m ago•0 comments

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1•apwheele•2m ago•0 comments

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Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

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2•jsomau•4m ago•0 comments

A page looks innocent: the algorithms behind a typeset page

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1•patrickg•4m ago•0 comments

So Much Tech News: Week 1 (10/11/2026)

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1•amichae2•6m ago•0 comments

The extraction of work from hidden degrees of freedom

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1•_benj•19m ago•0 comments

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1•Betelbuddy•22m ago•0 comments

Germany's 17M Immigrants: Where They Come From

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4•bushwart•24m ago•1 comments

Language Models Can Reduce Asymmetry in Information Markets (COLM 2024)

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1•martincsweiss•24m ago•1 comments

Japan to launch world-first mission to collect samples from Martian moon

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1•Betelbuddy•25m ago•0 comments

US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions

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3•Betelbuddy•26m ago•0 comments

OutreachSheet – Gmail outreach and scheduled follow-ups in Google Sheets

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3•martinald•33m ago•0 comments

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Ask HN: ATS devs or recruiters, applicant using email addresses like duck.com?

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Show HN: APIFlow Studio – A browser API client with local mock responses

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