free-tts

free-tts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenMinis/MinisSkills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A free text-to-speech tool that converts written text into MP3 audio using Microsoft Edge’s online speech service. Text-to-speech means generating spoken audio from text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read text aloud or generate MP3 narration files.
Why use it?
It needs no API key, account, or registration, so you can create spoken audio without configuring a paid speech service. It does require the edge-tts Python library.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to read text aloud or generate MP3 narration files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openminis/minisskills/free-tts
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 OpenMinis/MinisSkills --skill free-tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenMinis/MinisSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,262 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00088 $0.01262
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00631
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00126

Measured 10d ago against content hash 30f691f096de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

free-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 10d 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.

free-tts/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Free TTS Skill

Use edge-tts (a Python library) to convert text to an MP3 audio file. It calls the Microsoft Edge browser's online TTS interface in the background. It is completely free, requires no registration, needs no configuration, has unlimited usage, and connects directly from within China.

Environment Dependencies

pip install edge-tts

No API key, account, or token is required.

Complete List of Chinese Voices

# Voice ID Name Gender Language/Style
1 zh-CN-XiaoxiaoNeural Xiaoxiao ⭐ Female Mandarin, warm and natural
2 zh-CN-XiaoyiNeural Xiaoyi Female Mandarin, lively and playful
3 zh-CN-YunxiNeural Yunxi Male Mandarin, cheerful and energetic
4 zh-CN-YunjianNeural Yunjian Male Mandarin, passionate and powerful
5 zh-CN-YunyangNeural Yunyang Male Mandarin, professional and reliable
6 zh-CN-YunxiaNeural Yunxia Male Mandarin, cute and charming
7 zh-CN-liaoning-XiaobeiNeural Xiaobei Female Northeastern Chinese, humorous and friendly
8 zh-CN-shaanxi-XiaoniNeural Xiaoni Female Shaanxi dialect, bright and cheerful
9 zh-HK-HiuGaaiNeural HiuGaai Female Cantonese, friendly
10 zh-HK-HiuMaanNeural HiuMaan Female Cantonese, friendly
11 zh-HK-WanLungNeural WanLung Male Cantonese, friendly
12 zh-TW-HsiaoChenNeural HsiaoChen Female Taiwan Mandarin, friendly
13 zh-TW-HsiaoYuNeural HsiaoYu Female Taiwan Mandarin, friendly
14 zh-TW-YunJheNeural YunJhe Male Taiwan Mandarin, friendly

To view the complete list of multilingual voices, run edge-tts --list-voices.

Usage

# Default voice (Xiaoxiao)
edge-tts --text "Hello, and welcome to our free text-to-speech service." --write-media /var/minis/workspace/output.mp3

# Specify a voice
edge-tts --voice zh-CN-XiaoyiNeural --text "The weather is really nice today." --write-media /var/minis/workspace/output.mp3

# Adjust speech rate and volume (percentage, -50 ~ +100)
edge-tts --voice zh-CN-XiaoxiaoNeural --rate=+20% --volume=+50% \
  --text "Welcome to today's news." --write-media /var/minis/workspace/output.mp3

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 101 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 30f691f096de

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free-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenMinis/MinisSkills (407 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,262 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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