pn-tts

pn-tts is a skill for Cursor from perniemann/pnCore. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,698 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A text-to-speech workflow that turns written scripts into narration audio. It covers voice selection, pronunciation and expression controls, timing for captions, and audio loudness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create narration for demos, marketing videos, social clips, and other audio or video projects.
Why use it?
It removes the need to record every voiceover in a studio. It also helps keep narration, subtitles, and localized versions consistent.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the pn-core plugin — 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create narration for demos, marketing videos, social clips, and other audio or video projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/perniemann/pncore/pn-tts
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add perniemann/pnCore --skill pn-tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perniemann/pnCore

Made for: Cursor.

Or install pn-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,698 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 $0.00073 $0.01698
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00170

Measured 6d ago against content hash 470703bbaf4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pn-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 6d 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.

packages/pn-core-mcp/content/skills/media/pn-tts/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Text-to-speech (TTS)

When to use

  • A video composition (pn-html-to-video or pn-generative-video-pipelines) requires narration audio before render.
  • A marketing cut, demo video, or social reel needs voiceover without a recording studio.
  • Captions or subtitle tracks must be derived from narration timing (feed output into pn-transcribe).
  • Localized variants need the same script in multiple languages or voice styles.

Tool selection

Tool Model / tier Best fit Notes
ElevenLabs Multilingual v3, Flash v2.5 Highest prosody quality, voice cloning, streaming Paid; Flash tier cheaper for batch; supports SSML subset
OpenAI TTS tts-1, tts-1-hd Fast, API-simple, good for short clips No SSML; tts-1-hd for delivery masters; 6 built-in voices
Kokoro / TTS-1 local Kokoro-82M or similar ONNX Air-gapped, no cost per character, repeatable Requires local model; quality below ElevenLabs on nuanced prosody
Azure / Google Cloud TTS Neural2, Azure Neural Enterprise compliance, 100+ languages, WaveNet SSML full support; cost at scale

Default recommendation: ElevenLabs (quality-first) or OpenAI TTS-1-hd (API-simple). Use local only when the content is sensitive or offline is required.

Voice specification

Declare before generating:

  • Voice ID or name — lock it; do not let the API pick a random default.
  • Language and localeen-US vs en-GB vs de-DE; accent matters for credibility.
  • Speaking rate0.91.1 for narration; 0.85 for slower explanatory content.
  • Stability / similarity / expressiveness (ElevenLabs) — stability 0.5–0.65 for engaging narration; similarity 0.75–0.85; expressiveness 0.5–0.7.

Script preparation

  1. One sentence per line in the input text. This makes timestamp alignment easier and limits runaway prosody errors.
  2. Punctuation drives prosody. Em dashes () create pause-like pauses; ellipsis (...) elongates final syllable; question marks raise inflection. Use deliberately.
  3. Numbers and abbreviations: Spell out what the model may mispronounce ($1,200 → "twelve hundred dollars"; API → "A-P-I" or "ay-pee-eye" depending on brand).
  4. Maximum chunk length: Many APIs cap at 5 000 characters. Split at natural paragraph breaks; plan overlapping 0.5s fade edges when concatenating.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 6d ago First seen · 120 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 470703bbaf4e

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pn-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository perniemann/pnCore (0 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,698 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 2026-09-03.

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