This is a web page that I want to turn into an audible ebook. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/3618-h/3618-h.htm

I can download the text, ebook (for kindle), ebook (not kindle), HTML, etc https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3618

And those textual files can be seen in Apple Books or Apple Documents https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/

But how can iOS convert one of those files into an audible output format?

Ron, the humblest guy in town.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

On 2022-11-04, RonTheGuy <ron@null.invalid> wrote:

This is a web page that I want to turn into an audible ebook. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/3618-h/3618-h.htm

I can download the text, ebook (for kindle), ebook (not kindle), HTML, etc https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3618

And those textual files can be seen in Apple Books or Apple Documents https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/

But how can iOS convert one of those files into an audible output format?

Why wouldn't you just use Text To Speech to read it and save that into
an audio file? I've done that for years for that sort of thing.

--
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

On 2022-11-04 16:15:03 +0000, RonTheGuy said:

This is a web page that I want to turn into an audible ebook. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/3618-h/3618-h.htm

I can download the text, ebook (for kindle), ebook (not kindle), HTML, etc https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3618

And those textual files can be seen in Apple Books or Apple Documents https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/

But how can iOS convert one of those files into an audible output format?

Ron, the humblest guy in town.

Automated text to speech is always horrible and full of mistakes. You
would be far better off finding a proper audio book version read by a
real person - it's available on Audible.com (there's a free trial) and
other versions on YouTube.

If you really insist on doing it yourself, then among other options
there is this method using the free Shortcuts feature:

Siri can convert text to an audio file in iOS 15

<https://allinfo.space/2021/09/01/siri-can-convert-text-to-an-audio-file-in-ios-15/>

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

In article <tk3vfd$19mj$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

Automated text to speech is always horrible and full of mistakes.

another thing you haven't used.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

Your Name wrote:

On 2022-11-04 16:15:03 +0000, RonTheGuy said:

This is a web page that I want to turn into an audible ebook.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/3618-h/3618-h.htm

I can download the text, ebook (for kindle), ebook (not kindle), HTML, etc >> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3618

And those textual files can be seen in Apple Books or Apple Documents
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/

But how can iOS convert one of those files into an audible output format?

Ron, the humblest guy in town.

Automated text to speech is always horrible and full of mistakes. You
would be far better off finding a proper audio book version read by a
real person - it's available on Audible.com (there's a free trial) and
other versions on YouTube.

If you really insist on doing it yourself, then among other options
there is this method using the free Shortcuts feature:

Siri can convert text to an audio file in iOS 15

<https://allinfo.space/2021/09/01/siri-can-convert-text-to-an-audio-file-in-ios-15/>

As YourName said, anything you can watch on YouTube you can rip the audio
(or download the entire video but that video isn't anything interesting).

ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw
Act 1 Audiobook in English
By Lesson Garden

youtube-dl.exe https://youtu.be/KCRBz6jeHJ4
youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --prefer-ffmpeg https://youtu.be/KCRBz6jeHJ4

ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw
Act 2 Audiobook in English
By Lesson Garden

youtube-dl.exe https://youtu.be/79ZVo-huFrU
youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --prefer-ffmpeg https://youtu.be/79ZVo-huFrU

ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw
Act 3 Audiobook in English
By Lesson Garden

youtube-dl.exe https://youtu.be/MfnonJgYqpk
youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --prefer-ffmpeg https://youtu.be/MfnonJgYqpk

An example of the file size differences between the video & ripped audio
is the first item above is 100 MB video but one third that at 30MB audio.

Name: ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw _ Act 1 Audiobook in English
_ Lesson Garden-KCRBz6jeHJ4.mkv
Size: 112961676 bytes (107 MiB)
SHA256: 9DCC80C09CA91FBFDA499542B387E2BF32D9B8E0713FCC2660F106125EE532C4

Name: ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw _ Act 1 Audiobook in English
_ Lesson Garden-KCRBz6jeHJ4.mp3
Size: 31256319 bytes (29 MiB)
SHA256: 11E9361A39D3C413119D91BCC0144853A50FCE06807669C251887ABBB753F18C

Even iOS should be able to do something as simple as play an MP3 file.
Dunno about the epub but you can try using an epub reader.
iOS must have them.

The problem will be what iOS always is, which is getting the epub file
into the epub reader without having to sell your first born to Apple.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

On 11/14/2022 8:21 PM, John Gardner wrote:

RonTheGuy <ron@null.invalid> wrote:

This is a web page that I want to turn into an audible ebook.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/3618-h/3618-h.htm

I can download the text, ebook (for kindle), ebook (not kindle), HTML, etc >> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3618

And those textual files can be seen in Apple Books or Apple Documents
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/

But how can iOS convert one of those files into an audible output format?

Ron, the humblest guy in town.

Might be easier to just use a site with public domain audiobooks like https://www.loyalbooks.com.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHs1lTHlWww>

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

RonTheGuy <ron@null.invalid> wrote:

This is a web page that I want to turn into an audible ebook. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/3618-h/3618-h.htm

I can download the text, ebook (for kindle), ebook (not kindle), HTML, etc https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3618

And those textual files can be seen in Apple Books or Apple Documents https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3618/

But how can iOS convert one of those files into an audible output format?

Ron, the humblest guy in town.

Might be easier to just use a site with public domain audiobooks like https://www.loyalbooks.com.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)