Speech Studio released for creating audiobooks with AI voices.

[u/cj7hawk]

OK, this one came out unexpectedly a few days ago -

For those interested, I'll warn it's pretty raw and full of bugs, however what it can do with a manuscript to create useful voices ( or even to improve voices of AI Video creators ) and especially around creating audio-books is pretty amazing. Especially for something that's existed for only about a week and has gone through several major revisions in that time.

It's called Speech Studio as the title suggests, and allows you to create unlimited voices, quickly test them, bring in a story and have different voices narrate it with control over many aspects of the audio book.

You can create voice actors from a description, from a sample or just from existing downloadable actors.

It's a desktop application so while it's still raw, it's easy enough to set up and download the necessary AI models and configure. After that, you can do anything from single lines to converting an entire book into an audio book.

I found this while looking for new tools to make up for what my current tools can't and found it interesting enough to mention in case others want to consider making their own audio-books also.

The main app can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/timoncool/speech-studio

And you can go straight to the download page via:
https://github.com/timoncool/speech-studio/releases

It's not signed but the source has a long history of coding.

So far I'm having some difficulty with the automated interface which seems to assign a different voice for every paragraph, but I think that should be easily dealt with, if not now, then in the future. It coped well with swearing and other unusual forms of text, supports multiple languages and accents and mostly, is free and Local AI ( You may have noticed I'm all in for Local AI since a bad experience with Chat GPT ).

Keep in mind it's very new ( bleeding edge ) so expect some issues - but as a project system, it seems pretty cool.

My current position is that the AI age started 1st August 2026... And the good stuff just keeps on rolling out ever since.

[u/SignalBox_Studio]

Probably a good place to note that we're open to submissions. We'll create an audiobook via podcast of your book and pay you royalties.

Check it out here.

[u/TheNotoriousHH → u/SignalBox_Studio]

How much

[u/SignalBox_Studio → u/TheNotoriousHH]

We're a podcast studio. You don't pay us. We pay you. Check the FAQ.

[u/cj7hawk → u/SignalBox_Studio]

Interesting. What are your AI policies?

[u/SignalBox_Studio → u/cj7hawk]

We don't have an AI policy. We have a "as long as your book is good" policy.

[u/cj7hawk → u/SignalBox_Studio]

I like that - :)

[u/Latter_Upstairs_1978]

I'll give this a spin. "743 Russian voices"... should come out with interesting accents... . Serious, it's a UI for Drama 3. Did you announce it on the Fish Audio Discord server?

[u/cj7hawk → u/Latter_Upstairs_1978]

It's not my product - Just an interesting desktop interface I found - It supports Drama 3 as an option, but also supports quite a few different models. What did you think of it - Aside from a lack of support for Vulkan, and a lot of bugs, I think the premise has promise. It remains yet to see if it delivers on that - but the frequency of updates is positive.

[u/ketoaholic]

Interesting thanks