# C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook

With one command, create a natural-sounding audiobook from a variety of input formats (epub, mobi, txt, PDF, HTML and more!)

Repository: https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quickpiperaudiobook
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: audiobooks, piper, productivity, tts
Last push: 2025-11-07T17:25:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 49/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 51, release rhythm 44, longevity 54
- inputs: {"age_days": 768, "days_push": 299, "days_rel": 299, "gap_med": 77.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1057, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:24.934178+00:00)

## What it is
A Go CLI tool that converts text content from formats like epub, PDF, mobi, txt, HTML, and docx into natural-sounding audiobooks with a single command. It uses Piper TTS models offline, manages them automatically, and supports multiple languages, mp3 output, and chapter metadata via ffmpeg.

## Use cases
- convert an epub to an audiobook
- turn pdf documents into spoken audio
- listen to text files instead of reading them
- generate mp3 audiobooks with chapters
- create audiobooks offline for privacy
- make audiobooks in languages other than english

## When to choose
- you want a one-command, offline, private text-to-speech pipeline for ebooks and documents
- you need multi-format input support (epub, pdf, mobi, docx, html) without manual conversion
- you want multilingual TTS using Piper models with configurable defaults

## When to avoid
- you need cloud-quality neural voices or fine-grained voice cloning
- you want a GUI audiobook manager rather than a command-line tool
- you cannot install external dependencies like calibre's ebook-convert or ffmpeg

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: tts, pdf, cli, audio-processing
- domain: developer-tools, files, pdf
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: audiobooks, piper, text-to-speech, ebook-conversion, offline, privacy, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook (main) score 49

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:24.934178+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:57:54.147027+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:24.934178+00:00, sha 35e0017ceb7d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.