AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AkooBooks Audio
Giving Voice to Global African Authors
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. AkooBooks Audio launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Every book deserves to be heard
2023 · authors.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Listen to anything on the go with the highest quality voices
2024 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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ElevenLabs & Spotify make audiobook publishing effortless
2025 · findawayvoices.com · its alternatives →
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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 HN, I've been working on AfriTales, a flutter based mobile app that brings African folktales into modern stories narrated episodes wrapped in a children and adult friendly UI player. The stories are created to cover north, south, west and east Africa. I think of it as a digital by-the-fire-side. Why AfriTales: Cultural relevance: There is a gap in culturally-rich audio-native storytelling apps for Africans, the diaspora and people interested in African stories. Modern Influence: Modern UI makes the the app feel elegant and emotionally resonant. Retention via structure: Episodes are short…
2025 · afritales.org · its alternatives →
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Audible.com▲75The best way to listen to Audiobooks on your iPhone
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
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Booktime▲78Simple audiobook player with several great features
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Record and edit audiobooks in Audacity
2016 · krystalwascher.com · its alternatives →
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ReadBit▲122Read wisely & save time with text-to-speech audiobook reader
2021 · readbit.app · its alternatives →
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🚀 Open-Source Release: "Run & Read" for Android | iOS 🎧📚
Jan 2026 · answersolutions.net · its alternatives →
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Odiofy▲56AI text reader that turns text into an interactive audiobook
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Listen to your audiobooks with music simultaneously
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce a project I've recently launched: Oration, an iOS app designed to convert PDFs into audiobooks. This idea was inspired by my experiences as an engineering student with ADHD, struggling to engage with dense academic papers. Relying on Text-to-Speech tools, despite their robotic quality, was a workaround for me and others with similar learning preferences or challenges, such as Dyslexia. Recognizing the limitations of existing tools—difficulty with complex formats, inability to skip over citations or footnotes, and inadequate handling of tables,…
2024 · oration.app · its alternatives →
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I'm launching something that started as a side project publicly today: ReadToMe, which is an iPhone app that turns paper books and other printed text into audio. Originally this was a Christmas present for my fiancée, who loves books but has an eye problem that makes it hard for her to read more than a few pages at a time. She mostly listens to audiobooks while following along with the paper book, but some books aren't available in audiobook or even e-book form, and all of the existing apps we tried were surprisingly bad at scanning paper books into audio — they make lots of mistakes,…
2024 · readtome-app.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, Eke here, co-founder of Genti Audio. Genti Audio is a mobile app for streaming and downloading Africa-focused audiobooks, stories, and podcasts in regional and local African languages. In September 2021, my sister and I sat down to work on an audio show exploring Nigeria’s cultural and linguistic diversity. As we began to put the show together, we realized that our target audience- Nigerians and Africans in both urban and rural areas, were not heavily present on any of the major audio platforms for this type of content. Recognizing this, we decided to first fix this distribution gap,…
2022 · gentimedia.com · its alternatives →
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