Guides

Step-by-step guides to writing, narrating, and exporting your audiobook with Arqenne — all on your own computer, on macOS or Linux.

Narrate your book with AI text-to-speech

Turn a manuscript into chapter audio with 28 built-in AI voices — generate, tune, and listen back, paragraph by paragraph.

Clone your voice for audiobook narration

Build a custom narrator voice from a 5–15 second recording and narrate your audiobook in it — fully on-device, on Creator and Studio.

Downloading and managing local models

What Arqenne downloads to run narration and writing offline on Mac and Linux: model sizes, storage locations, and how to reclaim disk space.

AI writing suggestions, fully offline

Select a passage and get an on-device rewrite as a reviewable diff — your manuscript never leaves your computer.

Use Arqenne with your AI agent (MCP)

Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or OpenCode to Arqenne to work in your projects, narrate, storyboard, and speak with local text-to-speech.