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Transform PDF to mp3

Install dependencies

brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz xpdf
brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac

Transform the pdf to mp3 audio

Make the .pdf a .txt file.

pdftotext book.pdf book.txt

Transform it to voice with mac

say -f book.txt -o book.aiff
say -v Paulina -f book.txt -o book.aiff # If spanish needed

Finally, encode it to .mp3

ffmpeg -i book.aiff -f mp3 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320000 -ar 44100 book.mp3
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