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Turn any e-book into a chaptered audiobook in your own voice: free, fully local. CosyVoice 3 or Fish Audio Drama 3 (80+ languages, several voices), no cloud needed

Why this job: topics: text-to-speech, tts, whisper, voice-cloning

Folivox studio rendering a book: progress, chapter lanes, live fragments

What it does

  • Many formats in. FB2 (also .fb2.zip), EPUB, DOCX, PDF (text layer, no OCR) and TXT. Chapters, nested sections, poems and epigraphs are kept; PDF headers, footers and page numbers are removed and hyphenation is undone.
  • Fish Audio Drama 3. Directed in plain words ([calm, warm narration]), 80+ languages, several speakers in one scene. Runs locally on a Mac with enough memory; an online variant with your key is optional. Details.
  • 10 languages with full rules, 80+ with Drama 3. Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Dutch get their own text rules (CosyVoice reads the first nine; Dutch needs a Fish or online engine). Any othe
  • Text prepared for speech. Numbers, dates, times, money, units, roman numerals and abbreviations read in full, with case and gender agreement where the language has it (Russian cases, Spanish veintiuna, French une, German eine, Korean native
  • Stress, ё and your own pronunciations. For Russian, ё is restored automatically with ruaccent, and full stress marks are available (--stress all, experimental). Names and invented words: a plain-text dictionary next to the book (Kvothe = Qu

Get started

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vatavale/folivox/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Maintenance
Active
Last commit 2 days ago
Stars
112
+2 this week
Licence
Apache-2.0
Allows business use
Downloads for
None listed
No release files
Latest version
v0.1.0
Released 19 days ago
Built with
Python
82% of the code

Is it looked after?

Contributors
1
Last 90 days
Issues
75% closed
2 still open
Pull requests
0 merged
0 waiting
Releases
1
1 in the last year

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Languages

  • Python 82%
  • HTML 17%
  • Shell 1%
  • PowerShell 1%

Topics

  • audiobook-creator
  • audiobook-generator
  • audiobooks
  • audiobookshelf
  • cosyvoice
  • cosyvoice3
  • drama3
  • ebooks
  • epub
  • m4b
  • self-hosted
  • text-to-speech

Project record

  • JobSpeech and audio
  • StatusNew to our list
  • Commits342
  • Forks13
  • Watching1
  • Stars in 28 days+80
  • CreatedOct 11, 2026
  • First seen by usNov 7, 2026
  • CheckedNov 8, 2026

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