From 9c9304fa05a2e78f96c410fb8ed0e20231d5b955 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: historia Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 12:45:18 -0400 Subject: readme: uninstall section --- README.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e759c1a..84b1b7b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ![TUI demo](./app/demo.webp) -Generate audiobooks from books (epub, txt, pdf) using text-to-speech backends such as `audio.cpp`, `qwen-tts`, and `SGLang-Omni`. TAG installs and manages requirements and backend servers automatically. +Generate audiobooks from books (epub, txt, pdf) using text-to-speech backends such as `audio.cpp`, `qwen-tts`, and `SGLang-Omni`. TAG installs and manages requirements, backend servers, and TTS models automatically. ## Overview @@ -123,6 +123,24 @@ Transcription affects the output a lot. The automatic Whisper transcript is not Even tiny amounts of pause between phrases in the sample audio can have a big impact. Try increasing or decreasing them or find a sample with different cadence. +## Uninstall + +Everything the tool installs lives inside the project folder — venvs, the audio.cpp checkout, cloned repos, downloaded models, logs, and generated audiobooks — so removing it removes all of that: + +```bash +rm -rf tts-audiobook-generator +``` + +A few caches land in your home directory. Only delete these if you don't share them with other tools: + +- `~/.cache/huggingface/hub` — TTS model weights and Whisper transcription models (delete only the `models--*` directories to keep the rest) +- `~/.cache/whisper` — OpenAI Whisper models (only used when the fallback transcriber runs) +- `~/.cache/pip` — downloaded wheels (shared with pip itself) + +```bash +rm -rf ~/.cache/huggingface/hub ~/.cache/whisper ~/.cache/pip +``` + ## License MIT -- cgit v1.2.3