EBOOK MANAGER
Calibre 7.21
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What you need:
Windows 10 or 11, macOS or Linux
Calibre is the best free software for reading and managing ebooks on your desktop – and it gets better with every release. The latest version introduces a text-tospeech tool that lets you create audio overlays for books in EPUB format. This is powered by Calibre’s new text-to-speech engine, Piper, which uses a neural network to produce realistic-sounding voices. To try the new tool, right-click an ebook in your library and choose ‘Edit book’. When the book editor opens, click the Tools menu, select ‘Add Text-to-speech narration’ (see screenshot) and choose English. Click ‘OK’ and Calibre will convert the book’s text into an audio overlay. To hear this, open the book in the ‘E-book viewer’ and click ‘Show controls’ then ‘Read aloud’. You can increase or decrease the speed at which text is read, and switch from using the Piper engine to the one built into Windows.