sherpa-onnx-tts

sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop. It costs 26 tokens per session (959 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of sherpa-onnx-tts, MIT.

An offline text-to-speech command that turns written text into a WAV audio file using sherpa-onnx and a locally installed voice model. Text-to-speech means generating spoken audio from text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create spoken audio files from text, choose a different installed voice model, or override the runtime and model files.
Why use it?
It produces speech without sending the text to a cloud service, so it can work locally and keep the input on the machine.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create spoken audio files from text, choose a different installed voice model, or override the runtime and model files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/sherpa-onnx-tts
About the project

Bitterbot is a local-first personal AI agent that runs on a user’s devices, keeps persistent memories, performs tasks, and can exchange reusable skills with other agents. It is intended for people who want a personal assistant that remains available across conversations and activities. The catalogue entries provide instructions and agents for working with Bitterbot.

Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop · 2,462 stars · on GitHub · bitterbot.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill sherpa-onnx-tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 959 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00959
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00096

Measured 13d ago against content hash 55f21fa4bc19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sherpa-onnx-tts scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/sherpa-onnx-tts/SKILL.md · 104 lines

What it actually says

sherpa-onnx-tts

Local TTS using the sherpa-onnx offline CLI.

Install

  1. Download the runtime for your OS (extracts into ~/.bitterbot/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime)
  2. Download a voice model (extracts into ~/.bitterbot/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/models)

Update ~/.bitterbot/bitterbot.json:

{
  skills: {
    entries: {
      "sherpa-onnx-tts": {
        env: {
          SHERPA_ONNX_RUNTIME_DIR: "~/.bitterbot/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime",
          SHERPA_ONNX_MODEL_DIR: "~/.bitterbot/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/models/vits-piper-en_US-lessac-high",
        },
      },
    },
  },
}

The wrapper lives in this skill folder. Run it directly, or add the wrapper to PATH:

export PATH="{baseDir}/bin:$PATH"

Usage

{baseDir}/bin/sherpa-onnx-tts -o ./tts.wav "Hello from local TTS."

Notes:

  • Pick a different model from the sherpa-onnx tts-models release if you want another voice.
  • If the model dir has multiple .onnx files, set SHERPA_ONNX_MODEL_FILE or pass --model-file.
  • You can also pass --tokens-file or --data-dir to override the defaults.
  • Windows: run node {baseDir}\\bin\\sherpa-onnx-tts -o tts.wav "Hello from local TTS."
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 104 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 55f21fa4bc19

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sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop (2,462 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 959 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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