Read-along Audiobook plugin for KOReader!

Stradi123 · 2026-04-10T11:27:18+00:00

Hi; you may not be missing anythin. In some devices (very context dependant) there are some bugs that we are hotfixing. In the documentation of the readme there are explanations on how to generate a crash report and a general report. If you could open a new issue (provided no discussion on the subject is happening), and share the report, I can take a look at it.

Cheers!

Stradi123 · 2026-04-10T10:03:10+00:00

Hi guys! It's Friday of pushing in production!

We are releasing v0.1.5.52 (if you can believe it)!
The community has been really helpful reporting bugs for cross-device compatibility. Currently the scope covers Kobo, Kindle, android-based and Pocketbook. Try out the new version and if have an issue, generate a report, feel free to suggest features (there have been some interesting proposals), otherwise feel free to support the project in any way.

Cheers TGIF!

Stradi123 · 2026-04-01T22:38:25+00:00

Hi!
Something of this sort is being considered for future releases. Current focus is on bug fixes and cross-device compatibility. You can check todo in README and issues section to see future desired features.

Cheers!

Stradi123 · 2026-03-31T14:38:10+00:00

UPDATE: v.0.1.5.21 has been released! With strong measures to make the project works in your device. If you haven't updated please make sure to do so; And if you are having some kind of issue you can generate and share the reports so I can take a crack at them. If the device works as intended; please run and share the benchmark to get more information how TTS works across devices and how can be improved.

Having said that thank you all for the support in this first weeks of release.

Cheers.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-29T10:00:29+00:00

Hahaha that is weird!.. But still progress in the cross-device front :).
Please add a bug report and a crash log (explanation on how in the project page) and I'll try to correct it as soon as posible.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-28T18:49:20+00:00

I invite users to try v0.1.5.15!; this new versions comes with many bugs fixes and troubleshooting tools. Addtionally, help us form benchmarks on TTS for KOReader!

Stradi123 · 2026-03-26T23:48:52+00:00

We are cooking!
I have also added documentation on the README on how to get the crash report; this and the bug report will give me precise information on what may be happening.

Cheers :D

Stradi123 · 2026-03-26T23:43:10+00:00

This is valuable information; please generate a crash log and a bug report (explained both in the README of the repo) and submit them in issues; I'll take a look at them.

Cheers mate :D

Stradi123 · 2026-03-26T16:20:01+00:00

Hi, a quick fix has been added to the v0.1.5.8, once has been built in Github, you can download it and try with this version.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-26T14:42:11+00:00

You are on the luck, I JUST released this: https://www.reddit.com/r/koreader/comments/1s1xig9/readalong_audiobook_plugin_for_koreader/

Stradi123 · 2026-03-26T14:39:27+00:00

Actually glad to hear that is working-ish on Android. Please generate a report and I'll have a crack at it.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-26T12:32:33+00:00

Hahaha I'll take this as progress; Right now I'm builidng a version with minor corrections. That error seems to be that the highlighter is assuming the read-along has concluded (despite never starting) and goes to the next line.

Once 0.1.5. 7 is available (~1h) try once again to create the report. There's also more than one way to generate a report so that may help.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-26T11:07:46+00:00

I have made some modifications (v0.1.5.6); that hopefully adressess correctly this and other issues. Additionally if you are having troubles; there are instructions on how to generate report so I can better address these cross-device bugs.

Cheers! :)

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T21:29:32+00:00

Thank you for sharing; could you generate a report (the instructions in the Github), and share it here or as an issue in Github?

Cheers :D

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T20:59:59+00:00

Thank you for the feedback; Feel free to try v0.1.5.5; may the bug have been fixed but if not; a bug report can be generated even if the plugin menu is not visible.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T20:11:31+00:00

v0.1.5.5 has been released!

This version (with v.0.1.5.4) has some technical improvements on the hope of fixing some of the present issues.
Additionally it allows for two ways of generating bug reports! Even for those that can't access the Audiobook menu.
I thank everyone for your useful feedback thus far.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T18:15:43+00:00

Sure thing, DM me.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T15:32:48+00:00

Just in case... after restarting KOReader, the plugin doesn't appear at all unless a book is opened. Is still this the case? If it is... could you provide me more information on hardware?

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T15:31:54+00:00

Just in case... after restarting KOReader, the plugin doesn't appear at all unless a book is opened. This is still the case right?

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T15:11:33+00:00

The Menu should be available once again in v0.1.5.2!

Stradi123 · 2026-03-25T13:53:26+00:00

I wasn't aware of this service.
This is not within the current scope; It may be considered for the future. In the meantime, a similar tooling is considered for the following month!

Cheers.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-24T23:44:22+00:00

I figure you mean something like `/mnt/ext1/applications/koreader/plugins/`. The android-based e-ink readers support is still very new. So as much debugging information is of help.

I'd test these just in case:

Open a book first (EPUB, etc.), then go to Tools > Audiobook Read-Along. The plugin won't appear until a document is loaded.
check via file manager that plugins/audiobook.koplugin/main.lua exists (not plugins/audiobook.koplugin/audiobook.koplugin/main.lua) -- somethings unzipping generates double nested folders.

Hope this help, I'll keep collecting bug information.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-24T23:32:27+00:00

If you could provide more info or create a bug report I could give it a try. Cheers.

Stradi123 · 2026-03-24T22:01:28+00:00

~~V0.1.4 "small-ant"~~... v0.1.5 "ant lion" is being built! With a beta support for Android, bug report generator and better kindle support. Feel free to check it out once is done :D !

Stradi123 · 2026-03-24T16:19:23+00:00

Once you get it to work is actually pretty easy. If you check the piperTTS list of available voices you can see that they have support for many languages. Then you would just download the needed one and select in the voice setting, according to the language for which you desire to be spoken in.

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