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text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro - gist:5e73a7a375c0409f47c5cb3d380d4910

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro

Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx

then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

then install an audiobook app for listening to longer files, as they enable bookmarking, note taking, and +10 and -10 second skips and rewinds, and enjoy listening

let me know if any of this needs more explanation and/or if it works for what you are wanting!

.wav to .mp3 .wav to .mp3. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

In the terminal, install
pip install pydub
and
brew install ffmpeg

Then run script to convert .wav into .mp3, available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

Once the audio file creation is complete you end up with a .wav file that you could convert to mp3, which is more compact. you could also do it in one go with the above script, but as it makes further requirements on what is installed I have separated them.

once you have the script set up as wanted, you can run it through the terminal. If you use software such as Visual Studio Code, the only thing you need to do is to make sure that the .docx file is in the same directory as the script, or else adjust the path in the configuration section of the script

you can change voices and languages in the configuration section, here are some samples of voices huggingface.co/hexgrad/Koko...

The code above defaults to US English, for British English use language code 'b'

text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro - gist:5e73a7a375c0409f47c5cb3d380d4910

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro

Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx

then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

Sure! Not sure how familiar these terms are so please forgive any redundant over-explanation

I use Visual Studio Code for convenience, but the combination of a plain text file saved as .py for the code and running it in the terminal works too.

Went down a text-to-speech rabbit hole because my current version of Microsoft Word cannot read text out loud in a mechanical voice, and the AI app readers have a limit, and now I have a python script running in terminal creating an audiobook-for-the-purposes-of-proofreading-with-tired-eyes

Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...

Closing Conference - Call for Abstracts - Future Proofing Human Rights The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human ri...

3 more days to submit your abstract for this great conference on Thicker Notions of Human Rights #Accountabilities which will take place in Brussels 19-21 November! The final conference of our great project on future proofing #humanrights 🤩

futureproofinghumanrights.org/news/closing...

Isreal murdered 6 brothers delivering food to starving Gazans. The youngest was 10 years old.

Fascist fucks.

And even if they did have a criminal record, this is still fascist fuckery.

🚨New Publication on *Creating* Sexually Explicit Deepfakes & Criminal Law.
Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004

A third police officer is arrested in Rotherham for raping a 14-year old girl.

When we say male sexual violence is "systemic", this is what we mean:

It's when a child victim of rape is either ignored by the police or raped by the police.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds Study finds larger drop-off among girls aged 13-14 who feel safe than among boys, compared with age group in 2019

Here's a radical thought:

Assume that girls' feelings reflect facts.

Assume that girls can read their environment and are adept at risk assessment.

Assume that girls' are ... right. Take them seriously.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy Oonagh Peters says she was led to a cell by a woman garda, told to remove her jeans, pull down her knickers and lift up her bra

Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage

A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…

"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."

thank you!

Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...

We're In the Fight of Our Lives: What's at Stake This Transgender Day of Visibility Teen Vogue spoke with advocate Angelica Christina about how trans people are feeling this TDOV.

“My biggest advice to the trans youth out there is seek out your community, because we're out here. You have a community of people who love you, who are rallying around you, who support you … You are not alone. We will fight with you and we will fight for you.”

Solidarity. Today and every day.

🏳️‍⚧️

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

And here it is: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i... Comments and reflections most welcome! Thanks to @marthe.bsky.social!

Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name

Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy
Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Next week I will be publishing a postdoc vacancy on children’s rights & digital investigations to work @crisresearch.bsky.social in Brussels on a new EU Research Project on digital investigations of child sexual abuse. Keep an eye out for it here, linkedin and VUB jobsite! #criminology #crimsky

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

You truly could not make it up.

You could not.

CPP Colloquium The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 17 April to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberal personhood'. I argue that a relational definition of persons doesn't necessarily spell the end of liberalism. More here www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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In our next post, @marthe.bsky.social (Max Planck, Freiburg) argues that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and this infringement is better captured using a relational definition of persons. Coming this Friday: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com