sherpa-onnx-tts

sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from understudy-ai/understudy. It costs 26 tokens per session (952 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of sherpa-onnx-tts, MIT.

An offline text-to-speech tool turns written text into spoken audio on your own computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate WAV voice files from text, choose a downloaded voice model, and adjust model files or related data paths.
Why use it?
It lets you create speech without sending text to a cloud service or needing an internet connection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to generate WAV voice files from text, choose a downloaded voice model, and adjust model files or related data paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/understudy-ai/understudy/sherpa-onnx-tts
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

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 952 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 94% 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 $0.00952
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00476
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00095

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5eb2ee7d05ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts — 20 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.

skills/sherpa-onnx-tts/SKILL.md · 104 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 ~/.understudy/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime)
  2. Download a voice model (extracts into ~/.understudy/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/models)

Update ~/.understudy/config.json5:

{
  skills: {
    entries: {
      "sherpa-onnx-tts": {
        env: {
          SHERPA_ONNX_RUNTIME_DIR: "~/.understudy/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime",
          SHERPA_ONNX_MODEL_DIR: "~/.understudy/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. 10d ago First seen · 104 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 5eb2ee7d05ba

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sherpa-onnx-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository understudy-ai/understudy (456 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 952 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to sherpa-onnx-tts, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.