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24 alternatives to AI-Audiobook-Maker: Helping My Disabled Little Cousin Enjoy Story Books
Hey everyone! I've been working on a 'program"' (read as: overengineered bash script) It's called AI-Audiobook-Maker, and it was born out of my experiences with my 10-year-old cousin who is developmentally disabled. Despite his difficulties with reading, his enthusiasm for stories goes hard, even if he can't READ them. Watching him, I realized that the world of books was kinda out of reach for him, and I suppose many others. So, I set out to build something that could bridge this gap. After only finding shitty, expensive subscription sites that only gave you a couple hours of audio gen, I…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. AI-Audiobook-Maker: Helping My Disabled Little Cousin Enjoy Story Books launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News, This is definitely out of my comfort zone. I just wanted to show you guys because I'm super proud of it. It's a 100% faithful recreation based off of the schematics, patents, and ROMs that were found online. So please watch the video and tell me what you think https://youtu.be/auOlZXI1VxA The reason why I think this is relevant is because I've been a programmer for 25 years and AI scares the shit out of me. I'm not a programmer anymore. I'm something else now. I don't know what it is but it's multi-disciplinary, and it doesn't involve writing code myself--for…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Ryan AI▲225Create unique and captivating fairy tales for children
2023 · ryan-app.com · its alternatives →
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Childbook AI▲144Create your own children's book that you can read/listen to
2023 · childbook.ai · its alternatives →
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I wanted to share a few AI related things I've made for my kids (ages 2 and 4). It's mind blowing that the tech didn't exist in a useful state a year ago and now I end up using it almost daily. 1. Story creator app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/custom-ai-stories/id1669159225 - iphone app to create and read stories. This uses the openAI API and Amazon Polly (text to speech). Icon generated by Midjourney. Recently the stories have been taking a bit longer than the estimate to generate, I think due to increased openAI API usage 2. Belle uses the potty book -…
2023 · its alternatives →
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This is my attempt to do something fun with generative AI. I've tested this with some family members and their kids seems to love it. It's a bit pricey to make the stories and I've gone back and forth a bit on pricing models. I've settled on free for now and if it gets traction I can solve that problem later. I would love to get your feedback on the site! For the technical details - this was built with NextJS, hosted on Vercel, and coded with Cursor + Claude Code. We're not allowed to use Cursor or Claude Code at work, so this has been quite eye opening to see how good this stuff actually…
2025 · stuffiestories.ai · its alternatives →
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For a while I've wanted to try out the new AI voices for long-form narration, but everything I found required a subscription that didn't justify my limited usage. I came across the open Kokoro model [0] and the voices are very good -- good enough to listen to for hours without the fatigue I got from legacy, robotic TTS voices. The model is 82m parameters and designed to run fast, but I still struggled to get reasonable times from CPU inference on my 12-core laptop. I thought a cloud-based GPU service would let me generate audiobooks fast enough to feed my own self-hosted library, and that…
Jun 2026 · ebookaloud.com · its alternatives →
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AI-Powered Stories Crafted for Your Child’s Unique Interests
2024 · ikontotolink.com · its alternatives →
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Create personalized storybooks where your child is the hero!
2025 · storymagician.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I and a couple of friends finally launched a project that's been kicking around since late last year: Stories by AI The spark of the idea was actually inspired by another Show HN ("I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29428910). With the emergence of nice tools for co-writing fiction with GPT-3, I really liked the idea of publishing a bunch of short fiction where the AI largely did the writing. I still find the surreal fever-dream esque weirdness of language models really entertaining, and hope we can…
2022 · storiesby.ai · its alternatives →
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I've created an interactive tutorial that teaches how AI models work. I set myself the goal of making it approachable enough that my 11 year old son Isaac can fully understand it. The tutorial aims to be easily understood by anyone who understands basic math, and yet give them a deep intuitive sense of not just how AI works but why it works the way it does. It does this using a series of interactive playgrounds that let the reader play with each idea. Currently there are 9 chapters, starting from scratch and ending with transformers. I'm planning to keep adding more chapters until the…
May 2026 · learnai.robennals.org · its alternatives →
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AudioGretel▲15AI-powered personalized audio stories for children
2025 · audiogretel.com · its alternatives →
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This was a project I built for my daughter's first birthday present. For context, I'm a surgical resident in the UK by background and am currently taking a year out of training to study a masters in computer science. My daughter just turned one. There are two things she really loves: the first is particular soft toy that she just can't live without, and the other is a good story book. Her grandparents live hours away and I didn't want her to forget what they sound like between visits. I wanted her to hear them whenever she missed them. My parents brought my brother and I up with incredible…
Apr 2026 · storyfriend.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Hi! I have a 3-yo child that loves bedtime stories and I built an app for him that has evolved a lot during the last 5 months. The main features are: - Personalised stories with your own character names, topics (emojis) and moral - Interactive mode, which is like the "Choose your own adventure" books I used to read in the 80s - Image generation (DALL-e 3) - Text-to-speech (Google TTS) - Supports 5 languages: EN, ES, PT, FR, NO I'd love to see some feedback about the app functionality and how to find a suitable business model (that covers API expenses). Thanks in advance!
2023 · fantasaur.com · its alternatives →
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eBook to Audiobook in Minutes, using AI Text-To-Speech
2025 · audiobookcreator.io · its alternatives →
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I was somewhat hesitant about sharing this personal projects, especially since I just saw that cool looking Werk[1] tool posted, but I figured that my ADHD-fueled creation might still have it's own place to be. I just finished rewriting the code for a personal tool I use to automate terminal tasks while minimizing the amount of Python/Bash code I have to write. As with all other tools I create for my own use, the guiding principle is simplicity and approachability, as if the tool creates more issues or friction than it solves, I'll get discouraged from using it again. [1]:…
Jun 2026 · 0xff.nu · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built SceneReaderAI to help actors and creators hear their scripts read aloud using natural AI voices. You can try it free (200 words included) here → https://scenereaderai.com It supports 6+ AI voices, lets you replay your readings unlimited times, and charges only per spoken word (no monthly subscription). I’d love feedback on: • How clear the workflow feels • Whether the pay-per-word model makes sense • What voices/features would make it more useful for you I’m the solo builder and launched this earlier this year — would really appreciate your thoughts!
2025 · scenereaderai.com · its alternatives →
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I’m excited to share the project I’ve been working on for a while now called Nuvvel, which utilizes AI to generate detailed, rich stories for avid readers. You might think of it as a mix between an endless Netflix series and a dedicated Wikipedia for each series. The platform features interconnected characters, each with their own story arcs, and immersive locations where events unfold, connecting everything together. Each series begins with a story arc told over many chapters. Once a chapter is unlocked, it becomes available for everyone to read. Some chapters might already be unlocked by…
2024 · nuvvel.com · its alternatives →
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Personalized AI Audiobooks Tailored to Your Interests.
2023 · novels-ai.com · its alternatives →
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