📄🔊 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 (OpenAI, DeepInfra, Kokoro, KittenTTS-FastAPI, Orpheus, custom).
• 📖 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.