ebook-to-audio-book.clj

   1 #! /usr/bin/env bb
   2
   3 ; A utility to listen to your ebooks using TTS programs
   4
   5 (require '[babashka.process :as p]
   6          '[clojure.java.io :as io]
   7          '[clojure.string :refer [split]])
   8
   9 ;; TODO Check if all required utilities are installed
  10
  11 ;; TODO Allow voice selection
  12 (println "Selected voice is Samantha")
  13
  14 ;; TODO Use festival-tts or say depending on OS
  15
  16 (let [book-file (first *command-line-args*)
  17       title (first (split book-file #"\."))
  18       txtz-file (str title ".txtz")
  19       txt-file (str title ".txt")
  20       aiff-file (str title ".aiff")
  21       mp3-file (str title ".mp3")]
  22   (println "Converting to text...")
  23   (run-cmd ["ebook-convert" book-file txtz-file])
  24   (extract-file-from-zip txtz-file "index.txt" txt-file)
  25   (println "Converting text to audio. Don't hold your breath!")
  26   (run-cmd ["say" "-f" txt-file "-o" aiff-file])
  27   (println "Creating mp3 file...")
  28   (run-cmd ["ffmpeg" "-i" aiff-file mp3-file])
  29   (println "Cleaning up...")
  30   (run! io/delete-file [txtz-file txt-file aiff-file])
  31   (println (str "Done! Check out " mp3-file)))