# Core dependencies for TTS Audiobook Generator gradio_client>=0.7.0 pypdf>=4.0.0 ebooklib>=0.18 # Optional dependencies — features degrade gracefully without them # (tagged "# optional:" so the env bootstrap can skip them on platforms # with no compatible wheels instead of failing the install) beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0 # optional: better HTML cleaning for EPUB (stdlib fallback) faster-whisper>=1.0.0 # optional: reference-audio transcription (falls back to x-vector-only cloning) windows-curses>=2.3; sys_platform == "win32" # enables the TUI on Windows # Audio processing # Note: ffmpeg is required to concatenate and encode the final audiobook. # Install separately: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html