What is add-tts-engine?

A step-by-step guide for adding a new text-to-speech engine to Voicebox, an application that turns written text into spoken audio. It covers research, backend and user-interface changes, packaging, and testing.

Use it to integrate a text-to-speech provider into Voicebox from initial dependency review through frozen-build testing. It is intended for developers changing both the application and its distribution bundle.

It ensures the new engine works throughout the application, including packaged builds, instead of only working in development. It requires checking the engine’s dependencies before coding.

How drhousejunior982-cyber/voicebox.sh configures Claude Code and Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to drhousejunior982-cyber/voicebox.sh. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drhousejunior982-cyber/voicebox.sh/main/.agents/skills/add-tts-engine/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drhousejunior982-cyber/voicebox.sh

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,308 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	$0.00056	$0.01308
Opus 5	$0.00028	$0.00654
Sonnet 5	$0.00011	$0.00262
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00131

Measured 11d ago against content hash ac1d6d859938, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-tts-engine 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 11d 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

100% identical to add-tts-engine — 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.

.agents/skills/add-tts-engine/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add TTS Engine

Goal

Integrate a new text-to-speech engine into Voicebox end-to-end: dependency research, backend protocol implementation, frontend UI wiring, PyInstaller bundling, and frozen-build verification. The user should only need to test the final build locally.

Reference Doc

The full phased guide lives at docs/content/docs/developer/tts-engines.mdx. Read this file in its entirety before starting. It contains:

Phase 0: Dependency research (mandatory before writing code)
Phase 1: Backend implementation (TTSBackend protocol)
Phase 2: Route and service integration (usually zero changes)
Phase 3: Frontend integration (5 files)
Phase 4: Dependencies (requirements.txt, justfile, CI, Docker)
Phase 5: PyInstaller bundling (build_binary.py + server.py)
Phase 6: Common upstream workarounds
Implementation checklist (gate between phases)

Workflow

1. Read the guide

# Read the full TTS engines doc
cat docs/content/docs/developer/tts-engines.mdx

Internalize all phases, especially Phase 0 and Phase 5. The v0.2.3 release was three patch releases because Phase 0 was skipped.

2. Dependency research (Phase 0)

Clone the model library into a temporary directory and audit it. Do NOT skip this.

mkdir /tmp/engine-research && cd /tmp/engine-research
git clone <model-library-url>

Run the grep searches from Phase 0.2 in the guide against the cloned source and its transitive dependencies. Produce a written dependency audit covering:

PyPI vs non-PyPI packages
PyInstaller directives needed (--collect-all, --copy-metadata, --hidden-import)
Runtime data files that must be bundled
Native library paths that need env var overrides in frozen builds
Monkey-patches needed (torch.load, float64, MPS, HF token)
Sample rate
Model download method (from_pretrained vs snapshot_download + from_local)

Test model loading and generation on CPU in the throwaway venv before proceeding.

3. Implement (Phases 1–4)

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

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.

11d ago First seen · 121 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ac1d6d859938

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add-tts-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository drhousejunior982-cyber/voicebox.sh (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to add-tts-engine, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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