VoiceBooks books bot
In short
A rare case where free means free: the author published the project as open source and charges nothing. A neural voice won't replace a live narrator, but for non-fiction and books with no audio edition it does the job. The downside: a long book takes a while to render.
About the bot
A book file goes to the bot, it parses the text and reads it with a neural voice. There are twenty voices in ten languages, each with a preview. Six formats are accepted: EPUB, FB2, PDF, DOCX, TXT and MOBI, so a store purchase and your own document both work.
Under the hood
The developer described the service in an article in spring 2026: voices come from Edge TTS, the player opens as a mini app inside Telegram, and files up to 2 GB are accepted because the bot runs through its own Bot API server. The code is open and the narration costs nothing.
What the audio sounds like
Neural voices read evenly, with no acting and no distinct voices for characters. That's enough for textbooks, articles and business books; a novel full of dialogue will feel flatter.
The interface is Russian, but narration exists in other languages too, so an English book gets read as well.
You'll like it if
- the book has no audio edition and you want to listen
- you read a lot of non-fiction and study texts
- narration should cost nothing
Skip it if
- you expect acted reading with character voices
- you need a library of ready audiobooks, not narration of your own files
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