About recito

recito turns public-domain and copyleft ebooks into audiobooks you can listen to anywhere — free of charge, free of DRM, free of tracking.

Each book is narrated by an AI voice. If you would rather listen to audiobooks recorded by humans, not AI, check out LibriVox.

The ebooks come from Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg, whose editions are in the public domain. Our AI voices do the narrating. Each audiobook carries the license of its underlying text and the license is shown on the book's page.

Audiobooks are published as .m4b files with chapter markers, cover art, and full metadata — ready for any audiobook player (see how to listen).

The archive currently holds 1,741 books — about 18,153 hours of listening, or 756 days back to back.

New books appear as they are rendered. To follow along, subscribe to the new-audiobooks feed in any feed reader, or add the OPDS catalog to a compatible library app (see how to listen).

Curious about the technology? Everything behind recito is free software — see the developers page for the whole stack.