sherpa-onnx-tts

sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kaivyy/kabot. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,005 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of sherpa-onnx-tts, MIT.

A local text-to-speech command-line tool that turns written text into an audio file without sending it to a cloud service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make WAV voice recordings from text with a selected voice model.
Why use it?
It lets you create speech audio offline, which can help keep text private and avoid depending on an internet connection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to make WAV voice recordings from text with a selected voice model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kaivyy/kabot/sherpa-onnx-tts
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kaivyy/kabot --skill sherpa-onnx-tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kaivyy/kabot

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 1,005 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 84% 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 $0.01005
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 12d ago against content hash 27f9d6fc2182, 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 12d 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

84% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts — 30 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.

kabot/skills/sherpa-onnx-tts/SKILL.md · 106 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 ~/.kabot/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime)
  2. Download a voice model (extracts into ~/.kabot/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/models)

Update ~/.kabot/kabot.json:

{
  skills: {
    entries: {
      "sherpa-onnx-tts": {
        env: {
          SHERPA_ONNX_RUNTIME_DIR: "~/.kabot/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime",
          SHERPA_ONNX_MODEL_DIR: "~/.kabot/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. 12d ago First seen · 106 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 27f9d6fc2182

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sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository kaivyy/kabot (20 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,005 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts, differing in 30 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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