Audiobooks
Sources:
AudioBook Bay - https://audiobookbay.lu/member/advanced_search
My Anonymouse - https://www.myanonamouse.net/index.php
Interview:
https://www.myanonamouse.net/inviteapp.php
IRC client:
mIRC - https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2901572
AppData\Roaming\mIRC\scripts
HexChat - https://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html
Programs:
Winamp - https://www.winamp.com/downloads/
To disable fading:
Preferences…->Plug-ins->Output->Nullsoft DirectSound Output->Fading
on pause/stop - untick
on seek - untick
Audiobook with subtitles
Suppose you found audiobook in German. It can be translated into English.
You have mp3 and cover of audiobook.
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Make subtitles (1.srt) out of mp3 with subsai.
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Translate subtitles (1.srt) from German to English with wmt19-de-en model from Hugging Face (2.srt).
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Edit translated subtitles (2.srt)
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Make video out of mp3 and cover with ffmpeg.
ffmpeg installation:
Chocolatey - https://chocolatey.org/install
Open a command prompt with administrator rights. Right-click on the Start button. Terminal (Administrator).
choco install ffmpeg
Commands:
Win+R
cd path to folder with mp3 and cover ffmpeg -loop 1 -i cover.jpg -i "audiobook in german.mp3" -shortest out.mp4
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Embed subtitles (2.srt) into video:
Win+R
cd path to folder with mp3 and cover ffmpeg -i out.mp4 -vf "subtitles=2.srt:force_style='OutlineColour=&H80000000,BorderStyle=4,BackColour=&000000000,Outline=2,Shadow=0,MarginV=25,Fontname=Arial,Fontsize=16,Alignment=2'" -c:a copy out2.mp4
It turns out to be something like a movie with subtitles. Audiobook with subtitles.
You can dispense with translation. For example, you want to listen to an audiobook in English, but you don’t recognize all the words. You’re doing subtitles. You’re making a video. You embed subtitles into the video. You get an audiobook with subtitles.