Pick the EPUB
From Downloads, Google Drive or wherever your file picker reaches. DRM-free EPUBs, including fanfic and web-serial exports, all work.
EPUB on Android
EPUB Text to Speech on Android
Your ebook reader reads every character in the phone’s one flat voice. Lyraboo turns the EPUB into an audiobook where every character has their own AI voice.
EPUB to listening, in the app
No copying text, no converters in between.
Chapters come straight from the EPUB
EPUB marks its chapters explicitly, so the audiobook follows the book’s own table of contents.
Listen with a full cast
Every character gets their own AI voice, in a player with chapters, speed and lock-screen controls.
Two ways to listen to an EPUB on Android
An ebook reader with read-aloud — Moon+ Reader, ReadEra, Librera, @Voice Aloud Reader. They read with the text-to-speech engine installed on your phone: free, offline and fine for a page, but one voice for every character, with the phone’s intonation.
An AI audiobook app — Lyraboo converts the EPUB into an audiobook with natural AI voices. It finds the characters and gives each one a different voice, and plays the result in a music-app-style player: chapters, 0.25×–3× speed, background playback and read-along text. It needs an internet connection; hours come from a free monthly allowance or a plan.
Many people use both: the reader for reading, Lyraboo for the commute. If the reader’s voice is what puts you off, see a better voice than Moon+ Reader, ReadEra or Librera.
EPUBs worth trying first
- Fanfiction downloaded from AO3 as EPUB.
- Web serials exported from Royal Road or ScribbleHub.
- Classics from Standard Ebooks or Project Gutenberg — or the 1,000+ already built into the app.
Why listeners choose Lyraboo
The things people notice in the first chapter — and the reasons they stay.
Every character gets their own voice
Lyraboo’s AI finds every character in the book and casts a distinct voice for each — automatically, for every book. You always know who is speaking, and dialogue sounds like a real conversation instead of one narrator doing all the parts. Most reading and text-to-speech apps use one voice for everything.
The text follows along, like lyrics
Under the player, the book scrolls with the voice the way song lyrics do in Spotify: words light up as they are spoken, each line shows who says it, and tapping any word jumps there.
A player that feels like a music app
Chapters, speed from 0.25× to 3×, background playback with lock-screen controls, and it picks up exactly where you stopped.
Upload, and you are listening in minutes
Pick an EPUB, PDF or TXT and there is nothing to set up: the first chapter is ready in about one to two minutes, and the rest generate while you listen.
Any book you have, not just a catalogue
Novels, fanfiction and web-serial exports, indie ebooks, study PDFs — plus over 1,000 English classics already in the app.
Fair on cost
One free hour of listening every month, no card needed. Hours are spent once per chapter — replaying is always free.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best EPUB reader with text to speech on Android?
If you mainly read with your eyes and occasionally listen, a reader like Moon+ Reader or ReadEra with the phone’s TTS is free and offline. If you mainly listen, Lyraboo turns the EPUB into an audiobook with natural AI voices and a separate voice for each character.
Why does EPUB work better than PDF?
An EPUB knows where its chapters start and keeps the text as flowing text, so nothing like page headers or footnotes leaks into the narration.
Can I listen to an EPUB without internet?
Not with Lyraboo — its voices are generated in the cloud. Readers using the phone’s built-in voice work offline.
Are DRM-protected EPUBs supported?
No. Lyraboo opens DRM-free EPUB files only.
Try Lyraboo on Android
Upload a book you own and let the app turn it into a multi-voice audiobook automatically.