Elmren Voice
Good for: Turning your own text, EPUB, PDF or DOCX files into natural speech on a Mac, offline: pick one of 64 built-in voices or clone a voice you have permission to use, then export audio, a chaptered M4B audiobook, a follow-along HTML page or a karaoke-style video
Details
Note: Reader submission via /submit/ (2026-10-24, maker). Home, download and pricing pages checked Oct 24, 2026: native Mac app (Apple silicon M1 or later, macOS 13+, current build 1.10.0); imports TXT, MD, EPUB, PDF, DOCX, SRT, VTT and HTML (scanned PDFs need a text layer); Script Mode assigns a voice per speaker; runs offline after a one-time voice-pack download (about 700 MB to a few GB). A Windows version is in development. Testing needs an Apple silicon Mac. Submitted with outreach UTM parameters; clean URL listed.
Prices are from the official pricing page on Oct 24, 2026 and can change; check the pricing page before you buy. We haven’t hands-on tested this tool yet, so there is no score.
In the free test queue: #27, est. Mon, Dec 7. Skip the line with a $29 or $99 priority test.