sherpa-onnx-tts

sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SeanHogg/Builderforce.ai. It costs 26 tokens per session (978 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of sherpa-onnx-tts, MIT.

An offline text-to-speech tool that turns written text into a WAV audio file on your computer. It uses sherpa-onnx and downloaded voice models, so the text does not need to go to a cloud service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating voice recordings from text, testing spoken prompts, and choosing among installed voice models.
Why use it?
It provides spoken audio without relying on an internet service or sending text elsewhere.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Creating voice recordings from text, testing spoken prompts, and choosing among installed voice models.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seanhogg/builderforce.ai/sherpa-onnx-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 SeanHogg/Builderforce.ai --skill sherpa-onnx-tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SeanHogg/Builderforce.ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for sherpa-onnx-tts

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/seanhogg/builderforce.ai/sherpa-onnx-tts/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/seanhogg/builderforce.ai/sherpa-onnx-tts)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/seanhogg/builderforce.ai/sherpa-onnx-tts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/seanhogg/builderforce.ai/sherpa-onnx-tts/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for sherpa-onnx-tts

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/seanhogg/builderforce.ai/sherpa-onnx-tts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/seanhogg/builderforce.ai/sherpa-onnx-tts.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 978 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 95% 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 $0.00978
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00098

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3cf07d3235ca, 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

95% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts — 22 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.

agent-runtime/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 ~/.builderforce/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime)
  2. Download a voice model (extracts into ~/.builderforce/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/models)

Update ~/.builderforce/builderforce.json:

{
  skills: {
    entries: {
      "sherpa-onnx-tts": {
        env: {
          SHERPA_ONNX_RUNTIME_DIR: "~/.builderforce/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime",
          SHERPA_ONNX_MODEL_DIR: "~/.builderforce/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."
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 3cf07d3235ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository SeanHogg/Builderforce.ai (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 978 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts, differing in 22 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

local-ai-agents

Build local-first AI agents that run entirely on a developer workstation with Microsoft Foundry Local and Qwen function-calling models. Covers Small Language Models (SLMs), the OpenAI-compatible local endpoint, sandboxed local tools, local RAG with Chroma, local MCP servers, hybrid cloud/local routing, and the…

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · 200 tokens

next-cache-components-adoption

Turn on Cache Components in a Next.js app and resolve the blocking routes it surfaces. Use when the user wants to enable, adopt, or migrate to Cache Components, flip the cacheComponents flag, work through a flood of blocking-prerender / instant validation errors, run the cache-components-instant-false codemod, or…

vercel/next.js · 95 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

insight-error-page

Write or audit an insight-kind error page for the Next.js dev overlay. Use when creating a new errors/ .mdx page, auditing an existing one, or checking that a page matches the framework fix cards. Covers page structure, title alignment, FixCard cards with Copy prompt button, code snippets, terminology verification…

vercel/next.js · 83 tokens