Plex-Audiobook-Guide

You could start with a simple experiment using DeepSpeech[1] as an automatic transcription tool (I assume these recordings are non-public, so you'd prefer a local service instead of a cloud solution, which detection rate would probably be better). After having the text auto-transcribed into a simple txt file, I would check the quality and do some manual corrections, where required. Then import the transcribed text into the audio file metadata (e.g. Lyrics, Description or Comment, depending on your metadata format). The relevant fields I would look at are: Description LongDescription Comment Lyrics Group Title Album Composer Depending on the length of the recording you could also add chapters. Here is a nice audio book guide with some further ideas: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide?tab=readme-ov... Now you sh

There is also https://www.vorleser.net/ for german users. In case you want to take it a step further, you could convert the `mp3`s to `m4b` format (one file per audio book), which internally uses an `mp4` container aac codec, chapters for separation and extended metadata. It's well supported on iTunes / iPods / iPhone as well as Jellyfin, Kodi, Plex, etc. and the files have lower bitrates than mp3 providing similar quality. (see https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide#optional-auto...) There is also https://www.thorsten-voice.de/en/motivation-vision-english/ (see my comment below), if you would like to generate your own german audio books via TTS and AI. A self hosted audio book server is audiobookshelf (https://www.audiobookshelf.org/) which comes with an app that is open souce and supports offline listening. Tools to convert `mp3

Prologue for iOS is a Plex audiobook player that is better than any audiobook player has a right to be. Here's a good guide on how to set up Plex for proper metadata with audiobooks: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

I’ve been using Plex to host audiobooks works well enough https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide