"Stop, collaborate and don’t listen–Read instead. Easily convert your podcast to an eBook using AI. Help the neurodivergent, deaf, hard of hearing, or people who just like to read."<p>Yes, I said "AI"...It's all the rage these days.<p>The conversion happens using the open.ai Whisper general model. You can change the language and model size on this line whisper.load_model("medium.en"). It may run faster or slower with more (or less) accuracy using other models. All's I can say is to test it out and see what happens.<p>It doesn't currently do diarization (speaker identification). I've started working on this in the diarization branch, but haven't gotten too far. PR's are welcome.<p>The idea for transcribing podcasts to ebooks (pod2book) came about whilst listening to a podcast that was very scientific, with a lot of details. I wanted to capture what the person was saying and be able to go back and review, highlight, create notes, study, etc. Then came different podcasts I wanted to do the same thing with. Well, necessity being the mother of invention, I coded something on up and it worked pretty good.<p>I then thought to myself, “Self, this could also be valuable for other people that are neurodivergent, or just like to read.” I also shared the idea with someone else, and they were like, “Oh yeah that would help people that are deaf or hard of hearing too.” I wish I thought of that part myself.<p>Podcast transcripts are nice and all, but difficult to find and organize. What I would really like is to have a storefront/library that has all these podcasts-turned-eBooks organized by author that could then be subscribed to on your eBook reader of choice. Perhaps the eBooks could even be broken down into volumes like, Volume 1 would include episodes 1-50 and volume 2 would have episodes 51-100, etc.<p>Well, since I don’t own the copyright to any of these, I didn’t think it wise to try something like that. I shopped it around a little bit, then figured, what they hay, just open source it and let the people have at it and create their own libraries.<p>Use Calibre.<p>Thanks, -Ben<p>P.S.<p>There are other hn posts that go the other way...from text (or eBooks) to podcasts:<p><a href="https://www.charlieharrington.com/flow-and-creative-computing" rel="nofollow">https://www.charlieharrington.com/flow-and-creative-computin...</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376356">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376356</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25117894">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25117894</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894856">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894856</a><p>I didn't see anything on hn or elsewhere in my limited research that already had the functionality of podcasts->ebooks.