I’d honestly probably be less annoyed by a machine mispronouncing words than I am when a human reader does it..

I know I shouldn’t be annoyed because language is difficult and not everyone has heard every word.. but you’d think they would, like, check instead of saying something wrong 1,000 times (especially since the books I listen to are mostly science communication and science history)

whenever my GPU-heavy screen saver kicked in

So, a combined "Screen-saver" / "GPU-murderer" ? Neat - we can't save everyone ! ;-)

Are you from the distant future? I have never heard anyone call Python 3.12 just Python 12.

A little follow-up on this. Tonight I had a look at what it generated. It produced 2 files: a .wav and a .ass. The latter apparently contains subtitles that sync to the audio. But how do you play them together?

After searching around online, the general consensus seemed that you need to make a video file that throws it all together. For the background image I used a still of the book cover art. Then I ran an ffmpeg command that looked something like this:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i cover.jpg -i abogen_file.wav -vf subtitles=abogen_file.ass -shortest audio_book.mov

It sounds pretty awesome and looks like this while it's playing!