What is speech-build?

A development skill for creating speech from text and turning recorded or live speech into text with Google’s Gemini-TTS and Chirp models. It also supports identifying different speakers in a recording.

Use it to generate single- or multi-speaker audio, create a custom voice, transcribe recordings or streams, and separate speakers in transcripts.

It provides code patterns and reference material for adding voice and transcription features without working out the Google SDK usage alone.

speech-build — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by cnemri

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 cnemri/google-genai-skills --skill speech-build

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnemri/google-genai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, 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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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 439 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 original No closer match found 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	$0.00048	$0.00439
Opus 5.5	$0.00019	$0.00176
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00088
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00044

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cb5bcd9fb272, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speech-build 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 2mo 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.

skills/speech-build/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Speech Skill (TTS & STT)

Use this skill to implement audio generation and transcription workflows using the google-genai and google-cloud-speech SDKs.

Quick Start Setup

from google import genai
from google.genai import types
# For STT: from google.cloud import speech_v2

client = genai.Client()

Reference Materials

Text-to-Speech (TTS): Gemini-TTS, Chirp 3 HD, Instant Custom Voice.
Speech-to-Text (STT): Chirp 3 Transcription, Diarization, Streaming.
Voices & Locales: Available voices (Aoede, Puck...) and languages.
Prompting Guide: How to control style, accent, and pacing in Gemini-TTS.
Source Code: Deep inspection of SDK internals.

Common Workflows

1. Generate Speech (Gemini-TTS)

response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts",
    contents="Hello, world!",
    config=types.GenerateContentConfig(
        response_modalities=["AUDIO"],
        speech_config=types.SpeechConfig(
            voice_config=types.VoiceConfig(
                prebuilt_voice_config=types.PrebuiltVoiceConfig(voice_name='Kore')
            )
        )
    )
)

2. Transcribe Audio (Chirp 3)

# Requires google-cloud-speech
from google.cloud import speech_v2
# ... (See stt.md for full setup)
response = speech_client.recognize(...)

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

2mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A cb5bcd9fb272

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speech-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnemri/google-genai-skills (129 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 439 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Creative and media

speech-build next to 6 skills from other repositories
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