r/LocalLLaMA
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Building a Fully Local PDF Read-Aloud & PDF-to-Audiobook Desktop App with Kokoro 82M, Qwen, and llama.cpp
Hey everyone, I’ve been building Speechfony - a desktop app for reading PDFs (and EPUBs) with offline text-to-speech. Open a document, listen sentence-by-sentence with highlighting, or export selected pages to an MP3. Everything runs locally: Kokoro for speech, and an on-device embedding model for semantic search. I wa