# ebook2audiobook

> Convert e-books to audiobooks with local text-to-speech engines

ebook2audiobook converts digital book files into audiobooks with chapter detection, metadata, and voice cloning across hundreds of languages. It integrates multiple open-source TTS backends and supports custom fine-tuned voice models, OCR extraction, and pause tagging. Users run it locally via a Gradio web interface, headless command-line scripts, or prebuilt Docker containers.

- Source: https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook
- Live demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/drewThomasson/ebook2audiobook
- License: Apache-2.0
- Built with: Python 93.4%, Batchfile 1.8%, Shell 1.6%, Jupyter Notebook 1.3%, Other 1.9%
- Stars: 20452
- Forks: 1743
- Contributors: 31
- Last commit: 2026-10-06
- Latest release: v26.10.1 (2026-10-05)
- Purpose: AI & LLM tooling, Media & photos
- Type: Web, Docker / self-host, CLI
- For: Personal

## Worth score: 76/100

How much DigGitHub recommends it, from activity, adoption, docs, license and security signals.

- Popularity: 22/25
- Momentum: 10/20
- Maintenance: 25/25
- Community: 10/15
- Readiness: 9/15

## Downloads

Latest release: [v26.10.1](https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/releases/tag/v26.10.1). Files from the project's GitHub release, not checked by DigGitHub.

Source code only: this release has no files to download.

## Alternatives

- [Applio](https://diggithub.com/IAHispano/Applio.md): Simple voice conversion tool
- [GPT-SoVITS](https://diggithub.com/RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS.md): Few-shot voice cloning and text-to-speech
- [pyvideotrans](https://diggithub.com/jianchang512/pyvideotrans.md): Translate videos with speech recognition, subtitles, and AI dubbing
- [FunASR](https://diggithub.com/modelscope/FunASR.md): Speech recognition toolkit
- [Fish Speech](https://diggithub.com/fishaudio/fish-speech.md): State-of-the-art open TTS
- [Readest](https://diggithub.com/readest/readest.md): Modern ebook reader
- [MoneyPrinterTurbo](https://diggithub.com/harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo.md): Generate short videos from a topic with AI

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Source page: https://diggithub.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook
Updated: 2026-10-29