when you want a minimal command-line tool without the GUI/Docker setup and don't need voice cloning or 1158 languages.
Turn an epub or text file into an audiobook
- 960
- Python
- Apache-2.0
ebook to audiobook conversion
Turns e-books into audiobooks with TTS, voice cloning, and support for 1158+ languages, including chapter metadata.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
when you want a minimal command-line tool without the GUI/Docker setup and don't need voice cloning or 1158 languages.
Turn an epub or text file into an audiobook
when you need PDF/EPUB conversion plus dubbing and are okay with a more complex local pipeline.
Turn PDFs and EPUBs into audiobooks; subtitles or videos into dubbed videos (including translation), and more. For free. Pandrator uses local models, including voice-cloning (instant, RVC-enhanced, XTTS fine-tuning) and LLM processing. It aspires to be a user-friendly app with a GUI, an installer and all-in-one packages.
when you want a broader local voice studio with transcription/dubbing, not just e-book conversion, and can handle a heavier app.
VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative — voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.
when you specifically want Qwen3 TTS and need direct DOCX/PDF input, at the cost of relying on that model's language coverage.
Convert PDFs, EPUBs, DOCX, DOC, and TXT files into high-quality audiobooks using **Qwen3 TTS Voice Model** - an open-source voice synthesis system that excels at natural speech generation and voice cloning.
when you need advanced multi-voice narration with per-line style control and LoRA training, accepting a steeper learning curve.
AI-powered multi-voice audiobook generator — LLM script annotation, voice cloning, voice design, LoRA training, per-line style control, and export to MP3, chaptered M4B, or Audacity multi-track. Built on Qwen3-TTS.
These projects were analysed and named ebook2audiobook among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how ebook2audiobook rates them is a separate judgement, made when ebook2audiobook is analysed in its own right.
calls ebook2audiobook “Choose for converting e-books to audiobooks with voice cloning and many languages; specialized for books.”
Gradio WebUI for creators and developers, featuring key TTS (Edge-TTS, kokoro) and zero-shot Voice Cloning (E2 & F5-TTS, CosyVoice), with Whisper audio processing, YouTube download, Demucs vocal isolation, and multilingual translation.
calls ebook2audiobook “Choose it when you want a popular e-book to audiobook tool with voice cloning and many languages.”
VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative — voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.
calls ebook2audiobook “Choose for a ready-to-run audiobook generator app with voice cloning; not an embeddable TTS library.”
VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning