Audio Bible

Audio Bible — five Bibles, read aloud, for Claude, Cursor and any MCP client

Audio Bible gives an AI assistant a Bible as text and as sound: every verse of a chapter, numbered, a listening link that starts at a given verse with its timing in seconds, a recording made on demand when a chapter has not been read aloud yet, and a personal download link for the result. Five Bibles are offered — the World English Bible (English), Bibelen Anno 2026 (NB2026, Norwegian Bokmål), the Old Persian Version (OPV, 1895, Persian), the Reina Valera (RV1909, Spanish) and the Lutherbibel (1912, German) — and every capability tool takes a `bible` argument to choose between them. It runs as a hosted MCP server over HTTPS.

Connect

{ "mcpServers": { "audiobible": { "type": "http", "url": "https://audiobible.publifye.com/mcp" } } }

Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http audiobible https://audiobible.publifye.com/mcp, then /mcp to sign in. The discovery chain is the same as for the other servers: [../../docs/connect.md](../../docs/connect.md).

Five Bibles, one tool surface

Every capability tool accepts an optional bible argument — web, nb2026, opv, rv1909 or gerlut1912; the World English Bible stays the default when it is omitted. Book slugs are each Bible's own, so take them from list_books for that Bible. Each has its own contents page: NB2026, OPV, RV1909 and Luther 1912. coverage and chapter_status report how far each Bible has been read aloud, per Bible.

The tool schemas in this repository were captured on 2026-09-29, when only web and nb2026 were offered, so their bible parameter still lists those two; the live server accepts all five.

The text is quoted, not remembered

get_chapter returns every verse's exact text, numbered, and its own description tells the assistant to quote it as returned rather than paraphrase it as scripture. The World English Bible is public domain; the chapter pages are plain server-rendered HTML that anyone can read.

Listening is free; keeping is a plan

• Listen — listen_link returns the public reading page, which plays the audio with the verse highlighted, and the direct stream with that verse's start and end in seconds.
• Record — prepare_chapter has a chapter read aloud if it is not yet recorded, through the same idempotent queue as the website's Read button. It takes a minute or two; chapter_progress reports how far it has got without starting anything.
• Download — download_link mints a personal, expiring link: one chapter as .opus, or several as a ZIP on the annual plan. my_allowance states what is left in the rolling 24 hours before an assistant promises a download it cannot deliver.

Watch it read aloud on YouTube

The book of Ruth, all four chapters from the World English Bible, is on YouTube as a playlist: [Ruth — Audio Bible (World English Bible)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLafP-kvSDbS8), on Publifye's channel, [@publifyeofficial](https://www.youtube.com/@publifyeofficial). Each video is one chapter, read aloud with the text on screen — for example Ruth 3.

What the tools do

Every tool is documented with its exact description, annotations and input schema — 10 in all, generated from the service's own tools/list, never written by hand.

Machine-readable: [tools.json](tools.json) carries all 10 with full JSON Schema, plus every excluded bucket listed by name so the count is auditable. The staff-only admin tools (recording runs, voice options, deletion and restore, batch narration, search-engine notification) are excluded from the customer surface.

What it does not do

• Five translations, not the originals. The World English Bible, NB2026, OPV, RV1909 and the Lutherbibel 1912, and no other. For the Hebrew and Greek, other translations, lexicons and cross-references, see [Darash](../darash).
• No commentary or interpretation. Text and audio only.
• Not a crawler endpoint. Audio, generation, downloads and accounts are for people and their assistants; the public chapter pages are what search engines should read.

Plans

Listening is free. A free registered plan includes a small rolling download allowance; the annual plan raises it and adds multi-chapter ZIP downloads. Plans and prices can change; the current ones are always on [https://audiobible.publifye.com/store](https://audiobible.publifye.com/store), and where this page and the site differ, the site is right.