A tool for turning written text into spoken audio, such as narration, voiceovers, phone prompts, or accessibility readings.

Creating single recordings or batches of speech with built-in voices, then checking clarity, pacing, pronunciation, and format.

It removes the need to record every script manually and supports repeatable generation for one or many audio clips.

speech — Skill for Codex by cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill speech

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,707 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 100% 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00070	$0.01707
Opus 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00683
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00341
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00171

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d6120efc03ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speech 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/text_to_speech.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

100% identical to speech — 0 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/ai-automation/codex/speech/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Speech Generation Skill

Generate spoken audio for the current project (narration, product demo voiceover, IVR prompts, accessibility reads). Defaults to gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15 and built-in voices, and prefers the bundled CLI for deterministic, reproducible runs.

When to use

Generate a single spoken clip from text
Generate a batch of prompts (many lines, many files)

Decision tree (single vs batch)

If the user provides multiple lines/prompts or wants many outputs -> batch
Else -> single

Workflow

Decide intent: single vs batch (see decision tree above).
Collect inputs up front: exact text (verbatim), desired voice, delivery style, format, and any constraints.
If batch: write a temporary JSONL under tmp/ (one job per line), run once, then delete the JSONL.
Augment instructions into a short labeled spec without rewriting the input text.
Run the bundled CLI (scripts/text_to_speech.py) with sensible defaults (see references/cli.md).
For important clips, validate: intelligibility, pacing, pronunciation, and adherence to constraints.
Iterate with a single targeted change (voice, speed, or instructions), then re-check.
Save/return final outputs and note the final text + instructions + flags used.

Temp and output conventions

Use tmp/speech/ for intermediate files (for example JSONL batches); delete when done.
Write final artifacts under output/speech/ when working in this repo.
Use --out or --out-dir to control output paths; keep filenames stable and descriptive.

Dependencies (install if missing)

Prefer uv for dependency management.

Python packages:

uv pip install openai

If uv is unavailable:

python3 -m pip install openai

Environment

OPENAI_API_KEY must be set for live API calls.

If the key is missing, give the user these steps:

Create an API key in the OpenAI platform UI: https://platform.openai.com/api-keys
Set OPENAI_API_KEY as an environment variable in their system.
Offer to guide them through setting the environment variable for their OS/shell if needed.

Never ask the user to paste the full key in chat. Ask them to set it locally and confirm when ready.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

15 files 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.

1mo ago First seen · 145 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A d6120efc03ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speech is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,707 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to speech, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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