Full-cast audiobooks of the classics, free

Lorecast is a free audiobook library where every character speaks in their own voice. Not one narrator performing every part — the narrator has a voice, and so does each character they introduce.

31 books · 558 chapters · 159 hours · 304 character voices · no card needed

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Every book

• A Case of Identity — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 39m, 5 voices
• A Scandal in Bohemia — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 47m, 5 voices, Victorian Mystery
• A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle, 14 chapters, 3h 39m, 10 voices, Victorian Mystery
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain, 43 chapters, 8h 12m, 13 voices, Adventure
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll, 12 chapters, 2h 23m, 14 voices, Fantasy
• Dracula — Bram Stoker, 27 chapters, 13h 42m, 14 voices, Gothic Horror
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley, 30 chapters, 7h 16m, 13 voices, Gothic Horror
• Great Expectations — Charles Dickens, 59 chapters, 15h 56m, 12 voices, Victorian Mystery
• Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë, 38 chapters, 18h 6m, 11 voices, Gothic Horror
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen, 61 chapters, 11h 0m, 13 voices, Comedy
• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 50m, 7 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 43m, 8 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 51m, 7 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 35m, 7 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 46m, 7 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 53m, 5 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain, 36 chapters, 5h 45m, 9 voices, Adventure
• The Boscombe Valley Mystery — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 52m, 8 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Five Orange Pips — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 40m, 4 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle, 15 chapters, 5h 3m, 13 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde, 3 chapters, 1h 40m, 10 voices, Comedy
• The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells, 27 chapters, 4h 23m, 8 voices, Sci-Fi
• The Island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells, 22 chapters, 4h 3m, 6 voices, Sci-Fi
• The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling, 7 chapters, 4h 32m, 16 voices, Fantasy
• The Man with the Twisted Lip — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 49m, 8 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde, 20 chapters, 7h 9m, 9 voices, Psychological Drama
• The Red-Headed League — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1 chapters, 45m, 8 voices, Victorian Mystery
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 chapters, 2h 24m, 9 voices, Gothic Horror
• The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas, 67 chapters, 23h 11m, 18 voices, Adventure
• The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells, 27 chapters, 5h 49m, 4 voices, Sci-Fi
• Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson, 33 chapters, 5h 54m, 23 voices, Adventure

How it works

1. A clean copy of the book — Every recording starts from a professionally proofread public-domain edition, mostly from Standard Ebooks. This is not housekeeping: a scan with stray page numbers and broken paragraphs derails every step that follows, because the pipeline reads structure as well as words.
2. Casting the book — A language model reads the novel the way a casting director would — who speaks, how often, and what are they like? Confident or timid, young or old, warm or cold. Every character with a speaking part is matched to a distinct voice, and no two characters in one book are allowed to sound alike.
3. Working out who is talking — A second model goes through each chapter paragraph by paragraph and decides, line by line, whether this is the narrator describing a room or a specific character speaking, and in what emotional register. This is the step that lets one paragraph move between narration and two people arguing.
4. Performing the narration — Each book has one narrator, chosen to match its tone — a measured voice for a Gothic novel, a brighter one for an adventure. The narrator is generated by a fast text-to-speech model, which is why 159 hours of audio was affordable to produce at all.
5. Performing the dialogue — Every character’s lines are generated in the voice cast for them, from a short reference clip in an openly licensed speech corpus. The same reference produces a different performance depending on the mood of the line: afraid, sarcastic, grieving, delighted.
6. Assembling the chapter — The pieces are joined with the pauses a listener expects — half a second when the speaker changes, slightly less between sentences by the same speaker — then levelled so nothing is inaudible and nothing is shouted, and encoded as one file per chapter.