Aloud fork turns notes into local audiobooks

This is exactly the kind of scrappy local-AI workflow developers care about: not a polished product launch, but a believable proof that private, high-quality long-form TTS is getting practical inside everyday tools.

• –The interesting part is the stack design: an Obsidian reading interface on top of a local voice backend, rather than another standalone TTS app
• –Using Chatterbox Turbo instead of Voicebox’s default Qwen3-TTS suggests model choice is now a real UX lever for local voice products
• –Because the author has not open-sourced this fork yet, the post reads more like an implementation demo and recipe than a launch announcement
• –The audiobook-reading angle is a smart niche for local AI: long-form note consumption, privacy, and offline use all matter more here than in generic chatbot demos