Guides
Step-by-step guides to writing, narrating, and exporting your audiobook with Arqenne — all on your own Mac.
Narrate your book with AI text-to-speech
Turn a manuscript into chapter audio with 29 local AI voices — generate, tune, and listen back, paragraph by paragraph.
Clone your voice for audiobook narration
Build a custom narrator voice from a 10–30 second recording and narrate your audiobook in it — fully on-device.
Downloading & managing local AI models
What Arqenne downloads to run narration and writing offline: 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 Mac.
Use Arqenne with your AI agent (MCP)
Connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenCode to Arqenne for unlimited local text-to-speech.