A tool that turns written text into spoken-audio files in MP3 or Opus format. It can use the built-in macOS speech command or Google’s text-to-speech service, with ffmpeg converting the audio.

Use it to create audio versions of text, such as spoken messages, narrated content, or generated voice files, in MP3 or Opus format.

It removes the need to manually record or assemble audio from text. Scripts can create speech files as part of an automated process.

pywayne-tts — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by wangyendt

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add wangyendt/wayne-skills --skill tts

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wangyendt/wayne-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 684 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00051	$0.00684
Opus 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00274
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00137
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00068

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6de6708acf5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pywayne-tts scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Linux: `sudo apt install ffmpeg` or package manager

pywayne/tts/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pywayne TTS

Text-to-speech (TTS) tool that converts text to audio files (opus or mp3 format).

Functions

text_to_speech_output_opus - Convert text to Opus format

from pywayne.tts import text_to_speech_output_opus

# Output: test.opus
text_to_speech_output_opus("你好，世界", "test.opus")

Parameters:

text - Text to convert
opus_filename - Output .opus filename
use_say - If True, use macOS 'say' command; otherwise use gTTS (default True)

Behavior:

On macOS, prefers native 'say' command when use_say=True
On other platforms, uses Google TTS (gTTS) service
Uses ffmpeg to convert audio to opus format (16kHz, mono channel)
Automatically cleans up temporary files

text_to_speech_output_mp3 - Convert text to MP3 format

from pywayne.tts import text_to_speech_output_mp3

# Output: test.mp3
text_to_speech_output_mp3("你好，世界", "test.mp3")

Parameters:

text - Text to convert
mp3_filename - Output .mp3 filename
use_say - If True, use macOS 'say' command; otherwise use gTTS (default True)

Behavior:

On macOS, prefers native 'say' command when use_say=True
On other platforms, uses Google TTS (gTTS) service
Uses ffmpeg to convert audio to mp3 format
Automatically cleans up temporary files

Quick Start

# Convert text to Opus format (default: macOS uses 'say')
text_to_speech_output_opus "你好，世界" "test.opus"

# Convert text to MP3 format
text_to_speech_output_mp3 "你好，世界" "test.mp3"

# Force use gTTS instead of macOS 'say'
text_to_speech_output_mp3 "你好，世界" "test.mp3" use_say=False

Requirements

ffmpeg: Required for audio conversion
- macOS: brew install ffmpeg
- Windows: Download from https://ffmpeg.org and add to PATH
- Linux: sudo apt install ffmpeg or package manager
gtts: Python library for Google TTS service

Platform Detection

Module automatically detects platform and prompts for ffmpeg installation if missing.

Audio Formats

Opus: Better quality, smaller file size, suitable for voice calls
MP3: Better compatibility, suitable for multimedia playback

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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.

2mo ago First seen · 87 lines · 51 tokens per session scan B 6de6708acf5a

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pywayne-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository wangyendt/wayne-skills (9 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 684 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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