evo-tts-audiobook-synth

evo-tts-audiobook-synth is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLAIR/OpenSkill. It costs 60 tokens per session (490 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A text-to-speech tool that turns written text into MP3 audio, splitting long text into chunks and joining the resulting audio files. It can try several online or local speech services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create audiobook-style audio from text, generate MP3 files for text chunks, and combine those chunks into one file.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of recording or combining many audio sections. Fallback services can provide another route when an earlier speech service is unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create audiobook-style audio from text, generate MP3 files for text chunks, and combine those chunks into one file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlair/openskill/evo-tts-audiobook-synth
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OpenLAIR/OpenSkill --skill evo-tts-audiobook-synth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLAIR/OpenSkill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 490 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00060 $0.00490
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00245
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00049

Measured yesterday against content hash ff6e967631a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evo-tts-audiobook-synth 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/utils.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.

tasks-evolved/pg-essay-to-audiobook/environment/skills/evo-tts-audiobook-synth/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

evo-tts-audiobook-synth

Converts text to speech with cascading API fallback and audio concatenation.

Key Functions

  • synthesize_with_openai(text, output_path) - Uses OpenAI TTS API (tts-1, 4096 char limit)
  • synthesize_with_elevenlabs(text, output_path) - Uses ElevenLabs API (client.text_to_speech.convert)
  • synthesize_with_local_tts(text, output_path) - Uses edge-tts (async) or gTTS as fallback
  • synthesize_text_to_audio(text, output_path) - Tries OpenAI -> ElevenLabs -> local, returns bytes
  • concatenate_audio_chunks(chunk_files, output_file) - Concatenates MP3 files using pydub/ffmpeg

Usage

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/app/environment/skills/evo-tts-audiobook-synth/scripts')
from utils import synthesize_text_to_audio, concatenate_audio_chunks

# Synthesize each chunk
chunk_files = []
for i, chunk in enumerate(chunks):
    path = f'/tmp/chunk_{i}.mp3'
    synthesize_text_to_audio(chunk, path)
    chunk_files.append(path)

# Concatenate all chunks
concatenate_audio_chunks(chunk_files, '/root/audiobook.mp3')

Technical Notes

  • OpenAI TTS: client.audio.speech.create(model="tts-1", voice="onyx", input=text), max 4096 chars
  • ElevenLabs: client.text_to_speech.convert(text=text, voice_id="...", model_id="eleven_multilingual_v2")
  • edge-tts: async, uses Microsoft Edge neural voices, no API key needed
  • gTTS: Google Translate TTS, no API key needed, lower quality
  • Audio concat: use pydub AudioSegment or ffmpeg subprocess
  • Always use "wb" mode for writing audio binary data
  • Add time.sleep(1) between API calls to avoid rate limiting
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. yesterday First seen · 43 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A ff6e967631a7

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evo-tts-audiobook-synth is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLAIR/OpenSkill (90 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 490 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 2026-09-11.

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