I'm looking for a good software I can use to turn nonfiction e-books into audiobooks. Doesn't have to accept pdf input, but that would be a convenient feature. Post inspired by Speechify, but I want to do it ethically. Free open source software, running on my own computer, not some datacenter in what used to be the Amazon. Clear speech quality is the most important metric to me beyond that, performance isn't much of an issue. I'd be happy with something I have to leave running in the background for a few days to get good results.

Fun fact: I tried looking for a community to put this question in dbzer0, because they love AI, and there wasn't one! I thought for sure they'd have some kind of general AI community where I could ask for a TTS recommendation, but no. It's literally just image generation over there. Thanks programming.dev.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47966225

The update:

After months of hard work, we're thrilled to release the first beta for Lawnchair 15. This is a massive, foundational update based on Android 15.

The headline feature is one you've all been waiting for: App Drawer Folders! You can now create and reorder custom folders to organize your app drawer exactly how you want.

This release also includes a huge number of under-the-hood improvements, UI refinements, and new customization options.

Read the full story and see what's new on our blog: https://lawnchair.app/blog/lawnchair-15-beta-1

Download Lawnchair 15 Beta 1 from GitHub: https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases/tag/v15.0.0-beta1

Thank you for your incredible support!

Jujutsu is essentially an alternative front-end to git, both magnificiently simplified and powerful.

I tried it after using Emacs Magit for about six or seven years, and jujutsu is really easier to use than git and useful if one wants a tidy public history of changes (with "tidy" and "public" as Linus Torvalds recommends). Plus it is fully compatible to git as backend - other contributors will not even note you are using it.

A new open-source Single Sign-On (SSO) provider designed to simplify user and access management.

Features:

• 🙋‍♂️ User Management
• 🌐 OpenID Connect (OIDC) Provider
• 🔀 Proxy ForwardAuth Domains
• 📧 User Registration and Invitations
• 🔑 Passkey Support
• 🔐 Secure Password Reset with Email Verification
• 🎨 Custom Branding Options

Screenshot of the login portal:

I had already posted this to a couple of selfhosting communities, but thought it may fit in opensource as well.

Self-hostable Wakatime alternative for code time tracking

I searched the whole internet for a good wakatime alternative that is open-source and doesn't have a bad UI while being lightweight and fast.

I was unable to find anything good so that's why I built Ziit a code time tracking software with a minimal and clean UI heavily inspired by Plausible Analytics because most people are already familiar with that UI.

I appreciate every star and welcome feedback or bug reports. https://github.com/0PandaDEV/Ziit

If you want to use it but don't want to self-host it, you can make an account on the public instance at https://ziit.app/

It says "A passport for the internet", but I can't figure out what its selling point is. Is it for creators only? But how do users take advantage of other creators "vouching" for each other? And where is the monetisation thing? I'm a bit lost

syncthing does not support ignore file by size. Is there an alternative for syncing between windows and android that takes little memory like syncthing?

all tips are welcome. Or links to tutorials that do this or anything really.

KFritz is a KDE Plasma 6 Plasmoid that connects to your AVM Fritz!Box and displays real-time incoming calls