VoxNovel: 1.5

🎉 NEW Additions to VoxNovel:

🚀 New Features:

• 📝 Manual Character Assignment: Now you can manually modify which characters are assigned to specific lines, in case BookNLP misattributes any, before passing them to the main VoxNovel voice selection GUI.

• ⚡ Auto-Updating Desktop Shortcuts for:

  • 🖥️ Mac (Intel)
  • 🍏 Mac (Apple Silicon)
  • 🪟 Windows 11
  • 🐧 Ubuntu

• 🛠️ Installer App for:

  • Mac (Intel & Apple Silicon)

• 🧹 Uninstaller App for:

  • Mac (Intel & Apple Silicon)

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📜 Full Changelog: View Here

VoxNovel: 1.4.5

General Bug Fixes

• Sentence Splitter Adjustment:
  Modified the sentence splitter function to limit chunks to a maximum of 220 characters (previously 230). This resolves issues where excessively large text chunks were being passed into XTTS, causing errors.

• BookNLP Server Error Fix:
  Addressed a BookNLP server error by backing up the BookNLP model files. These files are now downloaded automatically, preventing potential server-related issues.

Specific Fixes

Ubuntu and Windows

• Auto Install Script Improvement:
  Enhanced the auto install script to automatically add a backup NLTK folder from a backup source. This change resolves issues related to the NLTK servers being down.

Windows Only

• Improved Installation:
  Enhanced the Windows installation process for better user experience.

• Updated Installation Guide:
  Improved the Windows installation README guide for clearer instructions.

• Desktop Shortcut Added:
  Added a Desktop shortcut for easier access to VoxNovel on Windows.

• Installation Video created:
  Added a installation guide video for VoxNovel on Windows 11

V1.4

-Added a headless variant
-Fixed some glitches
-added a google colab that uses the headless variant
-added docker images

V1.3

• Added cleanup code to wipe temp_ebook folder when run, which holds the individual extracted chapter txt files from the ebook.

• Added upgraded sentence splitting for more natural sounding audio generation with much less awkward pauses, especially when dealing with lists.

• Added a method to run code easily on Nvidia GPU with LOW-Vram (minimum 4GB); details are in the updated README.

• **Along with other changes.

Full Changelog: 1.2...1.3

V1.2

Full Changelog: 1.1...1.2

V1.1

Added new features to VoxNovel
-Might have issues running on the steam deck tho so use version 1.0 for that cause the steam deck has trouble installing Calibre for some reason.

-Ability to add fine tuned xtts models for specific voices button in gui
-Increased the accuracy for the time left prediction when generating audio.
-Outputs a m4b file with all of the ebooks metadata included as well as chapters and ebook cover art.
-Also Outputs a folder containing mp4 chapter files with the ebook cover art embedded in the mp4 files.
-Improved the chapter detection for all file formats (Works best with files)
-If booknlp fails to generate a book.csv file for some reason then it will create one where every speaker for each sentence is the Narrator

V1.0

This is the fist stable release of VoxNovel.