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🎧ebook2audiobook

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DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook

Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1158+ languages!

⭐ Very popular: 20k stars, gaining about 59 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2024 2 years old
delivery library
language Python
license Apache-2.0

momentum

total stars 20k
stars added last week +59
weekly downloads 29 /wk · PyPI
commits / week 23 cooling · -88% vs prior mo
issues closed 99% ~1 day to close, median
contributors 43
release cadence fortnightly
last activity 6d ago

durability

backing community / independent
openness permissive
bus factor 1 solo
top-author share 96% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 499/mo (+3%/mo) · + 5k total since PR#21

why it's a big deal

  • Turns any legally acquired textual content into high-quality audiobooks in multiple voices and languages.
  • Enables creators to repurpose content or reach audiences via audio (podcast style) with minimal production overhead.
  • Supports voice-cloning and local processing - giving users control over voice, privacy, and output format.

under the hood

  • Licensed under Apache-2.0. GitHub.
  • Built in Python, leveraging multiple TTS engines and a command-line interface plus optional GUI. GitHub.
  • Supports chapter metadata, multilingual processing (1,100+ languages) and optional GPU acceleration. GitHub.

our take from PR#21, 2025-11-12

star history

PR#21 · 15k20k now Jan 2024Aug 2026
  1. PR#21 15k 2025-11-12
  2. now 20k + 5k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Deep in the understory, shipping hard, still flying under the radar.

+40 understory score output 97 · clout 57
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#21 2025-11-12 on the radar

    Convert any eBook into a natural AI-narrated audiobook

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