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24 alternatives to Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
Shown HN: Lue - Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech Hello, Just went live on GitHub with this project. I really enjoy listening to my eBooks as audiobooks but was frustrated by the available options. Converting books into audiobooks with scripts is tedious, and most tools stumble over footnotes, headers, or formatting. I wanted something simple: just throw a book at it, and it starts reading immediately without any clicking or loading. I also wanted it to be customizable and modular because new, better TTS engines are released all the time. For this initial release, I settled on Edge…
Lue is a terminal-based eBook reader that converts text to speech and reads books aloud. It supports multiple formats including EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOCX, HTML, RTF, and Markdown, handling footnotes and formatting… 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 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.
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2021 · loudreader.com · its alternatives →
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Read smarter, not harder with this text-to-speech reader
2022 · speechify.com · its alternatives →
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QuickPiperAudiobook locally generates an mp3 audiobook on Linux with one easy command. It can convert PDFs, epub, mobi, and many more by using ebook-convert. It uses any piper TTS model, and thus supports a wide variety of languages. I've had great success using it to read more while reducing eye strain and computer usage. I think I've probably read 30 or so books this way now over the past year. Being able to listen to any content you want in audio form free and offline while going for a walk is extremely handy. I hope it helps you as well! Cheers
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Readvox▲211Chrome Extension that will read texts on web pages for you
2024 · readvox.com · its alternatives →
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Liso▲106Highlight text on any page and turn it into audio.
Jul 2026 · getliso.app · its alternatives →
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Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks
2017 · speechify.com · its alternatives →
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Reader Mode▲405Remove clutter and ads from any article. Instantly ⚡
2019 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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Audeus▲130Read Aloud PDFs, GDocs, Email, & More - Works Where You Do
2024 · audeus.com · its alternatives →
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ReadHere▲146Lightweight PDF & EPUB reader in your browser
Jun 2026 · readhere.app · 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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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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Turn Ebooks into Audiobooksfree tier▲34Create AI voiceovers with 1500+ voices in 80+ languages. Use text to speech, voice cloning, and studio controls for videos, audiobooks, courses, and ads.
2019 · auditus.cc · its alternatives →
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Natural Reader▲121The most powerful text to speech reader
2018 · naturalreaders.com · 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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Voice Out▲97Text-to-speech to read any webpage, Google Doc, or PDF
2024 · voiceout.app · its alternatives →
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A way to generate .mp3 files from ePUB. I wanted to continue "reading" even after my eyes got tired or if I went away from the screen. For these cases, what I did was select a given text, and select "Speech". If you've used this before, you know it's fine for small sections, but not for big chunks of text. So, I challenged myself to create a project that would "text-to-speech" a given book. After some attempts, I came up with a good-enough initial version using Golang. It will parse an ePUB into sections and run MacOS's `say` command to generate audio files. For now it's quite basic, but…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Readox▲7Readox is a Chrome extension that reads web pages, PDFs, selections, text files (ie markdown), and text input notes aloud with TTS. You can just play the current page, or save things to a library and queue them up. It highlights as it reads, keeps your place across items, and can OCR scanned PDFs. TTS (for text and PDF) and OCR run on-device, and it works offline after setup. I’m interested on feedback on the library collections as a "playlist-like" functionality, or if most people just want a play button for the current page. Also interested in anything that feels missing or awkward. Thanks!
Apr 2026 · readox.ai · its alternatives →
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Voitex▲67A text to speech app to listen to news, docs and more
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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PDF, Docx, Image, Web Pages, Clipboard text to speech reader
2024 · kgergooo.github.io · its alternatives →
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I had a bunch of ebooks with no audiobook version available. So I built an iOS app that converts EPUB files into audiobooks using text-to-speech. Two voice options: - Free on-device voices (processed locally, no server needed) - Natural cloud voices (one-time purchase per book, no subscription) Cloud conversion runs chunk by chunk. You can start listening other chapters generate in the background. Once done, the audiobook lives on your device. No account required. No subscription. You import your own EPUBs and either use device TTS for free or pay per book for the cloud voices. Nothing…
Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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PDF, eBooks to Audiobooks, MP3 with OpenAI Text To Speech
2024 · its alternatives →
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