📄🔊 OpenReader

OpenReader is an open source, self-host-friendly text-to-speech document reader built with Next.js for EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX with synchronized read-along playback.

Previously named OpenReader-WebUI.

Get started in the docs.

✨ Highlights

• 🎯 Multi-provider TTS with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and cloud providers (Kokoro-FastAPI, KittenTTS-FastAPI, Orpheus-FastAPI or OpenAI, Replicate, DeepInfra).
• 📖 Read-along playback for PDF/EPUB with sentence-aware narration.
• ⏱️ Word-by-word highlighting via optional whisper.cpp timestamps.
• 🛜 Sync + library import to bring docs across devices and from server-mounted folders.
• 🗂️ Flexible storage with embedded SeaweedFS or external S3-compatible backends.
• 🎧 Audiobook export in m4b/mp3 with resumable chapter processing.
• 🐳 Self-host friendly with Docker, optional auth, and automatic startup migrations.

🚀 Start Here

Goal	Link
Run with Docker	Docker Quick Start
Deploy on Vercel	Vercel Deployment
Develop locally	Local Development
Configure auth	Auth
Configure SQL database	Database and Migrations
Configure object storage	Object / Blob Storage
Configure TTS providers	TTS Providers
Run Kokoro locally	Kokoro-FastAPI
Run KittenTTS locally	KittenTTS-FastAPI
Get support or contribute	Support and Contributing

🧭 Community

• Questions and ideas: GitHub Discussions
• Bug reports: GitHub Issues
• Contributions: open a pull request

📜 License

MIT. See LICENSE.