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Hearken

Offline AI audiobooks from your own books and documents

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Hearken is an audiobook-style reader that turns your own books and documents into audio using on-device text-to-speech. Import EPUBs, PDFs, Markdown, HTML, FB2, or text files, download a voice model once, and listen offline anywhere — even on a plane. Because narration runs locally on your phone, your books and documents do not need to be uploaded to a cloud TTS service.

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