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denizsafak/abogen

Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/denizsafak/abogen · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

75/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 69
  • Longevity 35
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 6
  • age_days: 497
  • days_rel: 208
  • days_push: 13
  • n_releases_24m: 24

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

5771 stars · 429 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Abogen is a desktop text-to-speech application that converts EPUB, PDF, text, markdown, and subtitle files into audiobooks with synchronized captions using the Kokoro-82M TTS model. It is a Python-based GUI tool available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Use cases

  • generate audiobooks from epub files
  • convert pdf to audio with subtitles
  • create voiceovers for youtube or tiktok videos
  • turn text files into natural-sounding speech
  • make synced caption videos from ebooks
  • narrate documents with tts

When to choose

  • you want a ready-to-use GUI app for converting ebooks or documents to audio
  • you need synchronized subtitles or captions alongside generated audio
  • you want local, offline TTS using the Kokoro-82M model
  • you create voiceover content for social media

When to avoid

  • you need a headless or API-driven TTS service for server integration
  • you require the highest-quality neural voices beyond Kokoro-82M's capabilities
  • you need real-time streaming speech synthesis
  • you want a cloud-hosted solution with no local GPU/CPU setup

Facets

application · maturity active

tts speech-recognition audio-processing pdf gui media accessibility developer-tools windows python audiobook-generator kokoro-tts subtitles epub-converter voiceover natural-language-processing linux macos desktop

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
denizsafak/abogenmain75

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="denizsafak/abogen")

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