vatavale / folivox

What it does

• Many formats in. FB2 (also .fb2.zip), EPUB, DOCX, PDF (text layer, no OCR) and TXT. Chapters, nested sections, poems and epigraphs are kept; PDF headers, footers and page numbers are removed and hyphenation is undone.
• Fish Audio Drama 3. Directed in plain words ([calm, warm narration]), 80+ languages, several speakers in one scene. Runs locally on a Mac with enough memory; an online variant with your key is optional. Details.
• 10 languages with full rules, 80+ with Drama 3. Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Dutch get their own text rules (CosyVoice reads the first nine; Dutch needs a Fish or online engine). Any othe
• Text prepared for speech. Numbers, dates, times, money, units, roman numerals and abbreviations read in full, with case and gender agreement where the language has it (Russian cases, Spanish veintiuna, French une, German eine, Korean native
• Stress, ё and your own pronunciations. For Russian, ё is restored automatically with ruaccent, and full stress marks are available (--stress all, experimental). Names and invented words: a plain-text dictionary next to the book (Kvothe = Qu