DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook

Project overview

This tool converts e-book files into audiobooks using text-to-speech technology across 1158 languages and dialects. It supports multiple TTS engines, optional voice cloning, and can run on low-resource hardware with a minimum of 2 GB RAM.

Project type

Document Processing · Audio & Speech

Use cases

Meeting Notes · Audio & Speech

Deployment

Refer to project documentation

License

Apache-2.0

Best for

• Users needing to convert e-books to audiobooks across 1158 languages and dialects on low-resource hardware.
• Creators seeking optional voice cloning, custom model uploads, and multiple TTS engine options.

Key capabilities

• Converts multiple e-book and document file formats, including epub, mobi, pdf, and txt, into audio formats with chapters and metadata.
• Provides optional voice cloning from a user-supplied voice file, including built-in de-noising for the reference audio.
• Supports text-to-speech synthesis across 1158 languages and dialects.
• Supports XTTSv2, Bark, Fairseq, VITS, Tacotron2, Tortoise, GlowTTS, and YourTTS.
• Performs OCR scanning for e-book files that contain text pages as images.
• Allows direct conversion of short text to audio via a TextArea.
• Optionally translates e-books to a target language using argostranslate before TTS synthesis.
• Provides fine-grained control over breaks, pauses, and voice switching via SML tags.

Limitations and risks

• TTS engines are very slow on CPU compared to GPU.
• EPUB format lacks standard structure, requiring manual removal of unwanted text before conversion.
• MPS (Apple Silicon) is not exposed in Docker, requiring CPU usage.
• This tool is intended for non-DRM, legally acquired eBooks only.

Getting started

• Setup difficulty is rated as easy. Users can clone the repository and run the ./ebook2audiobook.command file, which opens the interface at http://localhost:7860/. Double-click binaries for Mac and Windows and pre-built Docker images are also provided.

Evidence and sources

• README: CPU/GPU Converter from E-Book to audiobook with chapters and metadata<br/> using advanced TTS engines and much more.<br/> Supports voice cloning and 1158 languages!
• README: [](https://huggingface.co/spaces/drewThomasson/ebook2audiobook) [![Free Googl…
• README: 
• README: - 🔧 **TTS Engines supported**: `XTTSv2`, `Bark`, `Fairseq`, `VITS`, `Tacotron2`, `Tortoise`, `GlowTTS`, `YourTTS` - 📚 **Convert multiple file formats**: `.epub`, `.mobi`, `.azw3`,…
• README: - `.epub`, `.pdf`, `.mobi`, `.txt`, `.html`, `.rtf`, `.chm`, `.lit`, `.pdb`, `.fb2`, `.odt`, `.cbr`, `.cbz`, `.prc`, `.lrf`, `.pml`, `.snb`, `.cbc`, `.rb`, `.tcr`

Reviewed at: 2026-07-17T11:59:47Z