Piper-TTS Audiobook Script

This project is a one-command solution to convert large .txt documents into high-quality MP3 audiobooks entirely offline using Piper — a fast, local, open-source text-to-speech engine.

The script:

• Installs all prerequisites (pipx, ffmpeg, piper-tts)
• Downloads a chosen Piper voice model (default: female UK English — en_GB-cori-high)
• Splits large text into manageable chunks for Piper
• Synthesizes each chunk into audio
• Stitches the chunks together into a single MP3 file

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📂 Project Structure

Piper-TTS-Script/
├── make\_audiobook.sh   # Main script
└── README.md           # This file

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⚙️ Requirements

• Linux Mint / Ubuntu (or other Debian-based distro)
• Internet connection for the first run (to install packages and download the voice model)
• A .txt file containing y