subev / libratory
Your free book and audiobook laboratory. Turn the PDFs you own into chapter-marked M4B audiobooks, read-along books and bilingual editions, on your own machine. Local TTS, AI cleanup and translations, an assistant that runs the library, chat with cited sources. Apple Silicon Mac, Linux, or one Docker container on a headless server.
Why this job: says: tts; topics: text-to-speech, tts
What it does
- PDF → audiobook. it finds the chapters, narrates each one, and gives you a single M4B with chapter markers and a cover.
- Instant uploads. the text is out in seconds, so you can read, search and ask questions straight away. The slow, thorough pass that can also read scanned pages is optional.
- Per-chapter control. edit, re-narrate, exclude or queue a chapter, have AI tidy up the mistakes scanning left behind, redraw where chapters start and end.
- Translate & rewrite. a chapter at a time, in whichever AI model you have set up, each version with its own audio. The original is never overwritten.
- Ask AI & notes. answers save as notes, and any note can become a chapter of the book.
Get started
docker compose -f oci://ghcr.io/subev/libratory-compose up -d --pull always git clone https://github.com/subev/libratory.git && cd libratory
pnpm run setup
# deps, .venv, model cache, Postgres, migrations
pnpm dev
# server on :3034, web on :3033 - Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 4 days ago
- Stars
- 143
- +3 this week
- Licence
- Custom
- Read before business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- Latest version
- v26.1106.1
- Released 4 days ago
- Built with
- TypeScript
- 85% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- Not stated
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 100% closed
- 0 still open
- Pull requests
- 12 merged
- 2 waiting
- Releases
- 80
- 30+ in the last year
- No contributing guide
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Languages
- TypeScript 85%
- JavaScript 6%
- Python 4%
- HTML 3%
Topics
- audiobook
- audiobooks
- docker
- epub
- kokoro
- llm
- local-first
- mlx
- rag
- read-along
- self-hosted
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits771
- Forks7
- Watching1
- Stars in 28 days+30
- CreatedJul 5, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 8, 2026