L&N Reader vs LyraReader

Lectures and Narrations — a player for enhanced, multi-voice .m4b audiobooks on iPhone and iPad, with an EPUB companion reader that highlights the text in sync with the narration. PLAYER • Chapter-relative scrubbing with a whole-book progress strip and live time remaining. • ±10/30 s skips, previous/next chapter, tappable chapter list. • Pitch-preserving 0.5×–3× speed, remembered across launches. • Background playback with full lock screen and Control Center support. • Mini-player on every screen — skips, chapter and book progress, and a Read shortcut. • Auto-saves your position and resumes where you left off. CAST ANYWHERE • AirPlay and Google Cast, side by side — stream to any speaker or TV while the sleep timer, reader sync, and progress saving keep working. READER + SYNC • Attach the matching EPUB and a sync manifest, and the text highlights itself in sync with the audio, scrolling and turning pages as you listen. • Manual paging pauses following; Resume jumps back to the narrated line. • Whole-book text search with in-place highlighting. • Light/dark mode and adjustable text size, both remembered. LIBRARY • Import .m4b audiobooks from the Files app — or AirDrop a book to your device and it imports itself. • Covers with progress bars; folder-style collections you can arrange by hand. • Finish a book in a collection and the next one is offered by its cover. IMAGES • Every illustration embedded in the audiobook, in a gallery with pinch zoom — and as tappable markers on the player scrubber. SLEEP TIMER • By time or by chapters, with volume fade-out, postpone, and shake-to-postpone. ONE ECOSYSTEM, TWO HALVES LN began as an AI experiment in book understanding — using language models to analyze narrative structure, character traits, and scene dynamics — and grew into an end-to-end pipeline for immersive, multi-voice audiobooks. ln-vox, the creator: an offline, self-hosted AI pipeline that ingests raw text or EPUBs, orchestrates LLMs to cast characters and direct emotional delivery, then uses local TTS to generate a fully acted, multi-voice .m4b complete with text-to-audio sync markers. ln-reader, the consumer: this app — built specifically to play those enhanced audiobooks. Free public-domain sample books: https://github.com/vibetuned/ln-samples Everything stays on your device — no accounts, no analytics, no servers. More at https://ln.vibetuned.com

LyraReader is a reader that can read aloud. Open your own book and listen from the place where you stopped. The interface is translated into 13 languages. Honestly about the narrator voice The neural narrator voice reads Russian books only — the model was trained on Russian speech. A book in any other language is read by the standard device voice, the same one the phone uses to read aloud. With Premium, too, the narrator reads Russian books only: we do not promise a narrator voice in other languages. Read the way that suits you • FB2, EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, RTF, MOBI, ODT — just add the file • Covers and descriptions are filled in automatically • Font, margins, brightness, warm light; separate themes for the app and for reading • Reading works with no internet connection Listen to your own books • Narration on the fly: not an audiobook from someone else's catalog, but your book • Read with your eyes, carry on with your ears from the same place, and back again • Controls in the background and on the lock screen • The device voice reads books in any language Russian classics — free • A catalog of Russian classics in the public domain • Narrated in the narrator voice: listen without Premium and with no time limit Your progress • Reading and listening statistics, day streaks, goal of the year • Achievements and monthly summaries • Shelves and collections, reviews, readers with a similar taste • Sync across devices through your account Premium A Premium subscription unlocks the narrator voice for your own books, the AI “Earlier in the book” plot recap and the AI advisor for your library. Honestly about the narration: the voice is made by artificial intelligence from the voice of a real narrator, recorded with his consent. It is not a studio recording of every book. No ads. Support: lyrareaderapp@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://lyrareader.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://lyrareader.app/privacy