Elmren Voice
Local text-to-speech studio for Mac
About Elmren Voice
Elmren Voice is a text-to-speech studio for the Mac that turns your own text, documents and manuscripts into narrated audio, chapter audiobooks, read-along web pages and videos, with all synthesis running locally on the computer. It is built for people who want natural-sounding narration of their own materials without uploading them to a cloud service or paying per minute. You can pick from a library of built-in voices or clone a voice from a short recording you have permission to use.
The app is sold as a one-time purchase of $39.99 for a lifetime license on one Mac, with no subscription and no per-minute billing after purchase. A trial gives 120 synthesis minutes within 7 days of first run, and purchases carry a 7-day money-back guarantee. After a one-time download of the engine and voice packs (from about 700MB up to a few GB with all voice packs), day-to-day creation works offline; the network is used only for that download and for license activation through Payhip. It requires Apple silicon and macOS 13 or later.
- •Start with your words - Paste text or import TXT, MD, EPUB, PDF, DOCX, SRT, VTT or HTML. Chapters and structure are kept, and you can merge, split or skip chapters before rendering. Scanned PDFs need a text layer.
- •Choose a voice - Pick a built-in voice, clone a permitted recording, or use Script Mode to assign voices to each speaker in a script.
- •Generate locally - Speech is synthesized on the Mac. Long jobs stay visible and can be interrupted, and you can revise a paragraph and re-render without starting over.
- •Export - Save chapter audio, an M4B audiobook with navigable chapters, a self-contained read-along HTML page with word highlighting, or an MP4 video.
- •64 built-in voices - 54 Kokoro studio presets, 9 Qwen voices and the macOS Samantha voice, downloaded once and used offline.
- •Local voice cloning - Clone a voice from a six to ten second recording. A quality gate checks length, background noise and whether the transcript matches, with per-sentence retry, and there are fast and quality cloning tiers.
- •Script Mode - For multi-speaker scripts, the app suggests a voice for each speaker, which you confirm or change by hand.
- •Read-along HTML - Export a self-contained page per chapter where words are highlighted as the voice reads.
- •Audiobook and video export - M4B chapter audiobooks for audio players and MP4 karaoke-style videos for a TV or tablet.
- •Offline and private - Materials, recordings and generated audio stay in a data folder on the Mac, with no account, cloud voice library or sync.
Elmren Voice is aimed at parents and teachers making read-along books for reading practice, including families supporting children with dyslexia, and at authors and self-publishers who want to turn a manuscript or EPUB into an M4B audiobook. It also suits anyone who wants to listen to their own documents and PDFs offline, and privacy-minded users who want voice cloning without uploading a voice sample. Mac users who prefer a single purchase over a subscription are the clearest fit.
Pricing
One time purchase, not a subscription
- Elmren Voice for Mac$39.99 once
From the vendor pricing page, 2026-10-15
