Hi, I'm Chong, the developer of Elmren Voice. I built it for people who want to turn documents they own or have permission to adapt into something they can listen to or read along with.

Elmren Voice runs speech generation locally on an Apple Silicon Mac. It imports TXT, PDF, DOCX and EPUB, includes 64 voices, and supports cloning your own voice or an authorized voice. Script Mode lets you assign different voices to characters.

You can export audio, chaptered M4B audiobooks, MP4 or a self-contained HTML player with word highlighting. The exported HTML can be opened in a browser on another device.

Requirements: M1 or newer, macOS 13+. Initial model downloads and license checks need internet access. A full license is $39.99 once for one Mac. The 7-day trial includes 120 minutes of synthesis without an account or payment card.

Website and app download
Browser read-along demo

I'd welcome feedback on the first document-to-audio export, especially from authors with their own manuscripts and parents using authorized reading materials.

Disclosure: this is my product; this post was prepared with AI assistance.