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| title: AudioBook Forge |
| emoji: 🎧 |
| colorFrom: indigo |
| colorTo: blue |
| sdk: gradio |
| sdk_version: 6.13.0 |
| python_version: '3.12' |
| app_file: app.py |
| pinned: false |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| short_description: AI audiobook generator with character voices via Qwen3-TTS |
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| # AudioBook Forge |
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| **Model-agnostic, high-fidelity audiobook generator** powered by [Qwen3-TTS](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS). Create audiobooks where every character speaks with their own unique voice. |
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| ## Features |
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| - 📁 **File Upload** — Import EPUB, PDF, TXT, or HTML directly |
| - 📖 **Chapter Detection** — Auto-detects chapters/sections for selective generation |
| - 🎙️ **Character Voice Mapping** — Auto-extract characters and assign unique voices |
| - 🎭 **Three Voice Modes for Every Voice** |
| - **Preset** — 9 premium built-in speakers (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, dialects) |
| - **Clone** — Upload a 3–10 second voice sample to clone any real voice |
| - **Design** — Describe a voice in text (e.g., "a raspy old man with a warm chuckle") and the AI creates it |
| - ⚡ **Quick Generate** — One-click audiobook from the Story tab with full voice customization (preset, clone, or design) |
| - 🎚️ **Speed & Temperature Control** — Adjust playback speed per voice (0.5x–2.0x) and generation temperature |
| - 📦 **Multi-format Export** — MP3, WAV, or ZIP of individual segments |
| - 💾 **Save/Load Projects** — Export and restore your voice configurations |
| - 🌐 **10 Languages** — English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian |
| - ⚡ **ZeroGPU** — Runs on Hugging Face ZeroGPU (free A100/H200 compute) |
| - 🔧 **Model Agnostic** — Backend is swappable; upgrade to future SOTA TTS models without changing the UI |
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| ## How to Use |
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| 1. **Paste or upload** your story in the 📖 Story tab. |
| 2. **Quick Generate** (optional) — Generate a full audiobook immediately with a customized narrator voice. |
| 3. **Extract characters** with the 🔍 button (AI enhancement is on by default for richer voice descriptions). |
| 4. **Configure voices** in the 🎭 Voice Cast tab: |
| - Set the **Narrator** voice (preset, cloned, or AI-designed) |
| - Assign a voice to each **Character** (all default to AI-designed voices) |
| 5. **Generate** in the ⚡ Generate tab and download your MP3, WAV, or ZIP audiobook. |
| 6. **Save your project** in the 💾 Project tab to preserve voice configs for later. |
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| ## Architecture |
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| - `app.py` — Gradio frontend with dark-themed custom UI |
| - `backend.py` — Model-agnostic TTS engine, dialogue parser, and audio stitcher |
| - **TTS Backend:** Qwen3-TTS 1.7B (CustomVoice + Base + VoiceDesign) |
| - **Text Processing:** Paragraph-aware chunking, sentence-boundary splitting, quote detection |
| - **Audio Pipeline:** Per-segment synthesis → crossfade stitching → peak normalization → MP3 export |
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| ## License |
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| The application code is Apache 2.0. The underlying Qwen3-TTS models are also Apache 2.0, making this stack fully commercially usable. |
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