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Offline St Giles

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Re: Traditional Catholic Audio
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2026, 12:39:21 PM »
How long does it take to convert an average book?
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Re: Traditional Catholic Audio
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2026, 12:58:45 PM »
Quote from: St Giles on February 15, 2026, 12:39:21 PM
How long does it take to convert an average book?

Never done a whole book before, but it will probably be about 15-20 minutes.
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« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2026, 01:59:56 PM »
To scan, process, and export? I think the fastest way to scan a book for AI to read would be to make an HD video of the pages being flipped through, if the AI is setup to read from that. Then even a big book would still take less than an hour.
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« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2026, 02:08:10 PM »
Quote from: St Giles on February 15, 2026, 01:59:56 PM
To scan, process, and export? I think the fastest way to scan a book for AI to read would be to make an HD video of the pages being flipped through, if the AI is setup to read from that. Then even a big book would still take less than an hour.
No I was talking about putting the text into audio.

Most Catholic classics are already scanned. And up on archive.org, or somewhere else online.
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Offline Ladislaus

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« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2026, 03:50:48 PM »
So, it takes a bit of work.  You have to extract the text, and proof-read it, since often the online copies that were OCRed and whatnot have errors and typos in them, and occasionally if you're using an AI voice, it'll trip up on pronunciation, so you have to edit the mispronounced words and replace them with a more phonetic rendering, etc.  So, the actual GOOD tools available, day and night from the robo-voices they used to have ... those are not free, but you have to pay for them.  So there's some cost in time and money, but the payoff is huge.  If one person were to take care of, say the NT and tens of thousands are able to listen to it while doing other things, working, etc. ... then the time is well worth it.
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