tts

Instructions for converting written text into spoken audio files using text-to-speech tools. Text-to-speech means software reads typed words aloud, and the instructions cover languages, speed, voices, and output files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making narrated audio, voiceovers, spoken versions of text, and multilingual or slower speech files.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a repeatable way to create audio instead of treating speech generation, transcription, music, and audio editing as the same task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericwang915/pythonclaw/tts
Any agent
npx skills add ericwang915/PythonClaw --skill tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericwang915/PythonClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 616 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00065 $0.00616
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 2d ago against content hash d70522ccac04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (speak.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.

pythonclaw/templates/skills/media/tts/SKILL.md · 84 lines

What it actually says

Text-to-Speech

Convert text to spoken audio files.

When to Use

USE this skill when:

  • "Read this text aloud"
  • "Generate an audio file of this paragraph"
  • "Create a voiceover for this script"
  • "Convert this text to speech"
  • "Say this in Spanish"

When NOT to Use

DON'T use this skill when:

  • Speech-to-text / transcription → use Deepgram or Whisper
  • Music generation → use specialised music tools
  • Audio editing or effects → use ffmpeg or audio editors
  • Playing existing audio files → use system player

Usage

Basic TTS (using gTTS — Google Translate TTS)

python {skill_path}/speak.py "Hello, this is PythonClaw speaking." --output hello.mp3

Options

# Different language
python {skill_path}/speak.py "Bonjour le monde" --lang fr

# Slow speed
python {skill_path}/speak.py "Important message" --slow

# Custom output path
python {skill_path}/speak.py "Text here" --output ~/audio/speech.mp3

Alternative: edge-tts (higher quality, more voices)

If edge-tts is installed (pip install edge-tts):

python {skill_path}/speak.py "Hello world" --engine edge --voice en-US-AriaNeural

Available edge-tts voices (examples)

  • en-US-AriaNeural — Female, US English (default)
  • en-US-GuyNeural — Male, US English
  • en-GB-SoniaNeural — Female, British English
  • zh-CN-XiaoxiaoNeural — Female, Chinese
  • ja-JP-NanamiNeural — Female, Japanese
  • de-DE-KatjaNeural — Female, German

List all voices: python -m edge_tts --list-voices

Notes

  • gTTS requires internet (uses Google Translate's TTS endpoint)
  • edge-tts requires internet (uses Microsoft Edge's TTS service)
  • Output format is MP3 by default
  • For offline TTS, consider pyttsx3 (lower quality but no network needed)

Resources

File Description
speak.py Multi-engine TTS wrapper (gTTS + edge-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. 2d ago First seen · 84 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A d70522ccac04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericwang915/PythonClaw (41 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 616 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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.

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