BOOKS LISTENING VOICE  /  VOZ DE BOOKS LISTENING
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ENGLISH
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Natural voices for the Books Listening reader, running on YOUR computer.
Free. Private: your books never leave your PC. Works offline after installing.

Voices: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Hindi (Kokoro, Apache-2.0).

INSTALL (Windows 10 or 11)
  1. Unzip this folder anywhere.
  2. Double-click  Install-Voice.bat
  3. Follow the screen. It needs Python 3.10 - 3.13; if you do not have it, the installer
     offers to install it for you. It downloads about 340 MB once.
  4. When it says DONE, open https://www.bookslistening.com/reading-room.html, go to Voice,
     press "Natural voices on your PC" and then "Check now". The reader remembers it from then on
     and offers the voices in its voice list.

REQUIREMENTS: about 600 MB of disk space and a reasonably recent computer.
Speed depends on your processor: on a 16-core PC it speaks about 3 times faster than real time;
on an older or slower PC it may be slower than real time and the reader will pause between sentences.

REMOVE: double-click  Uninstall-Voice.bat  (or Windows Settings > Startup apps to stop it starting with Windows).

SAFETY: the program listens only on this computer (127.0.0.1, port 47720), and only answers
pages from bookslistening.com or from localhost. It never sends anything to the internet,
except the one-time download of the voice files from GitHub.


ESPANOL
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Voces naturales para el lector de Books Listening, funcionando en TU computador.
Gratis. Privado: tus libros no salen de tu PC. Funciona sin internet despues de instalar.

Voces: ingles, espanol, frances, italiano, portugues e hindi (Kokoro, Apache-2.0).

INSTALAR (Windows 10 u 11)
  1. Descomprime esta carpeta donde quieras.
  2. Haz doble clic en  Install-Voice.bat
  3. Sigue las instrucciones. Necesita Python 3.10 - 3.13; si no lo tienes, el instalador
     ofrece instalarlo. Descarga unos 340 MB una sola vez.
  4. Cuando diga LISTO, abre https://www.bookslistening.com/reading-room.html, ve a Voice,
     pulsa "Voces naturales en tu PC" y luego "Comprobar ahora". El lector la recuerda desde entonces
     y ofrece las voces en su lista de voces.

REQUISITOS: unos 600 MB de disco y un computador razonablemente reciente.
La velocidad depende del procesador: en un PC de 16 nucleos habla unas 3 veces mas rapido que la voz;
en un PC viejo o lento puede ir mas lento que la voz y el lector hara pausas entre frases.

QUITAR: haz doble clic en  Uninstall-Voice.bat  (o en Configuracion de Windows > Aplicaciones de inicio).

SEGURIDAD: el programa solo escucha en este computador (127.0.0.1, puerto 47720) y solo responde
a paginas de bookslistening.com o de localhost. No envia nada a internet, salvo la descarga unica
de los archivos de voz desde GitHub.


LICENSES / LICENCIAS
  Kokoro-82M model: Apache-2.0.  kokoro-onnx: MIT.  espeak-ng (phonemes): GPL-3.0 (runs locally, not redistributed here).
