AI-Audiobook-Maker: Helping My Disabled Little Cousin Enjoy Story Books
Hey everyone! I've been working on a 'program"' (read as: overengineered bash script) It's called AI-Audiobook-Maker, and it was born out of my experiences with my 10-year-old cousin who is developmentally disabled. Despite his difficulties with reading, his enthusiasm for stories goes hard, even if he can't READ them. Watching him, I realized that the world of books was kinda out of reach for him, and I suppose many others. So, I set out to build something that could bridge this gap. After only finding shitty, expensive subscription sites that only gave you a couple hours of audio gen, I…
AI-Audiobook-Maker: Helping My Disabled Little Cousin Enjoy Story Books launched on December 13, 2023 with 5 votes, #1,426 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
Professional AI Audiobook Generator using Google Gemini 2.5 TTS and Lyria RealTime music generation - wowitsjack/AI-Audiobook-Maker
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey everyone! I've been working on a 'program"' (read as: overengineered bash script) It's called AI-Audiobook-Maker, and it was born out of my experiences with my 10-year-old cousin who is developmentally disabled. Despite his difficulties with reading, his enthusiasm for stories goes hard, even if he can't READ…
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