paulilaaso / lue
Terminal eBook Reader with Audiobook-Quality Text-to-Speech — Supports EPUB, PDF, DOCX, HTML, RTF, TXT, and MD.
Why this job: says: text to speech; topics: text-to-speech, tts
What it does
Lue is a versatile terminal eBook and document reader that is designed to seamlessly blend reading and listening. Built with multi-format support and modular multi-lingual text-to-speech integration, it provides synchronized word highlighting, smooth auto-scrolling, chapter navigation and persistent progress tracking to keep your reading workflow simple and streamlined.
Get started
brew install ffmpeg
# Optional
brew install espeakYou need: FFmpeg - Audio processing (required)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 3 months ago
- Stars
- 817
- On GitHub
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Share-alike terms
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.5.0
- Released 4 months ago
- Built with
- Python
- 100% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 0
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 91% closed
- 3 still open
- Pull requests
- 0 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 8
- 2 in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 100%
Topics
- book
- cli
- docx
- ebook
- epub
- modular
- reader
- terminal
- text-to-speech
- tts
- tui
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits112
- Forks46
- Watching7
- Stars in 28 days+3
- CreatedAug 16, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026