JOjordanf·Feb 9, 2026
thank you! it's actually unbelievably good. check out the demo audio files here: https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts?tab=readme-ov-file#d...
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kokoro-tts
A CLI text-to-speech tool using the Kokoro model, supporting multiple languages, voices (with blending), and various input formats including EPUB books and PDF documents.
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A CLI text-to-speech tool using the Kokoro model, supporting multiple languages, voices (with blending), and various input formats including EPUB books and PDF documents.
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4 sourcesI use "kokoro-tts" CLI, which has better chunking/splitting.
https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts
It generates a directory of audio files, along with a metadata file for ebook chapters
You have to use m4b-tool to stitch the audio files together into an audiobook and include the chapter metadata, but it works great:
https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool
I've been meaning to write a post on this workflow because it's incredibly useful
In Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and textIf you're willing to forgo the interactive LLM bit, kokoro-tts (just a script using Kokoro-ONNX) takes epubs and outputs a series of wavs or mp3s that need to be stitched together into chapters or audiobook m4a with some ffmpeg fu. I've listened to several generated audiobooks, and found them pretty good. Some nice generic narration-like prosody. It uses espeak-ng to generate phonemes and passes those to the model to render voice, so it generally pronounces things quite well. It comes with a handful of nice voices and several can be blended, but no easy voice cloning, like chatterbox, that I'm aware of.
https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/blob/main/kokoro-tts
In Chatterbox TTSI didn't try it yet, but it seems you should be able to do that via their GitHub repo: https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts
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