Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

Summary

abogen Abogen is a powerful text-to-speech conversion tool that makes it easy to turn ePub, PDF, or text files into high-quality audio with matching subtitles in seconds. Use it for audiobooks, voiceovers for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or any project that needs natural-sounding text-to-speech, using Kokoro-82M. Demo demo.mp4 This demo was generated in just 5 seconds, producing ∼1 minute of audio with perfectly synced subtitles. To create a similar video, see the demo guide. How to install? Windows Go to espeak-ng latest release download and run the *.msi file. OPTION 1: Install using script Download the repository Extract the ZIP file Run WINDOWS_INSTALL.bat by double-clicking it This method handles everything automatically - installing all dependencies including CUDA in a self-contained environment without requiring a separate Python installation. (You still need to install espeak-ng.) Note You don't need to install Python separately. The script will install Python automatically. OPTION 2: Install using pip # Create a virtual environment (optional) mkdir abogen && cd abogen python -m venv venv venv \S cripts \a ctivate # For NVIDIA GPUs: pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128 # For AMD GPUs: # Not supported yet, because ROCm is not available on Windows. Use Linux if you have AMD GPU. # Install abogen pip install abogen Mac # Install espeak-ng brew install espeak-ng # Create a virtual environment (recommended) mkdir abogen && cd abogen python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate # Install abogen pip3 install abogen Linux # Install espeak-ng sudo apt install espeak-ng # Ubuntu/Debian sudo pacman -S espeak-ng # Arch Linux sudo dnf install espeak-ng # Fedora # Create a virtual environment (recommended) mkdir abogen && cd abogen python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate # Install abogen pip3 install abogen # For NVIDIA GPUs: # Already supported, no need to install CUDA separately. # For AMD GPUs: # After instal...