Creating an Audiobook from an out of print book

I live in the Quality Management world and there a few seminole books that I really want on audio but don't exist in audio format.

So I scanned the book using Genius Scan on my phone, exported it to my Mac iCloud Drive. Genius Scan does a nice job of creating either a pdf or text file, in this case i went with the txt file. However, it's not so great to just drop into Kokoro 83M (found on github) free as it's flow is not goot

So I needed to create a skill that takes that text and cleans it up for reading by a human or ai.

Meanwhile I loaded Kokoro 82M. It's a text to voice repo that when paired as a skill in Claude Code, is pretty robust.

One Phone App, 2 Skills created. Now I have an audio book that I can take with me when I travel. And a method for bringing older, still relevant books to audio.

If anyone wants the skills or the Genius Scan app, let me know, happy to share.

Mike

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