Speak Tts
Give your agent the ability to speak to you real-time. Talk to your Claude! Local TTS, text-to-speech, voice synthesis, audio generation with voice cloning on Apple Silicon. Use for reading articles aloud, audiobook narration, or voice responses. Runs entirely on-device via MLX - private, no API keys.
Install
npx skills add EmZod/speak --skill speak-ttsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EmZod/speak.git /tmp/speak
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/speak/. ~/.claude/skills/speak-ttsPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# speak - Talk to your Claude! Give your agent the ability to speak to you real-time. Local text-to-speech, voice cloning, and audio generation on Apple Silicon. Give your agent the ability to speak to you real-time. Local TTS with voice cloning on Apple Silicon. ## Prerequisites | Requirement | Check | Install | |-------------|-------|---------| | Apple Silicon Mac | `uname -m` → arm64 | Intel not supported | | macOS 12.0+ | `sw_vers` | - | | sox | `which sox` | `brew install sox` | | ffmpeg | `which ffmpeg` | `brew install ffmpeg` | | poppler (PDF) | `which pdftotext` | `brew install poppler` | ## Input Sources | Source | Example | |--------|---------| | Text file | `speak article.txt` | | Markdown | `speak doc.md` | | Direct string | `speak "Hello"` | | Clipboard | `pbpaste \| speak` | | Stdin | `cat file.txt \| speak` | ### Web Articles ```bash lynx -dump -nolist "https://example.com/article" | speak --output article.wav ``` ### Converting Formats | Format | Convert Command | |--------|-----------------| | PDF | `pdftotext doc.pdf doc.txt` | | DOCX | `textutil -convert txt doc.docx` | | HTML | `pandoc -f html -t plain doc.html > doc.txt` | ## Output Modes | Goal | Command | |------|---------| | Save for later | `speak text.txt --output file.wav` | | Listen now (streaming) | `speak text.txt --stream` | | Listen now (complete) | `speak text.txt --play` | | Both | `speak text.txt --stream --output file.wav` | ### Default Behavior
Details
- Skill name
speak-tts- Repository
- EmZod/speak
- Repo updated
- 28 January 2026
FAQ
What does the Speak Tts skill do?
Give your agent the ability to speak to you real-time. Talk to your Claude! Local TTS, text-to-speech, voice synthesis, audio generation with voice cloning on Apple Silicon. Use for reading articles aloud, audiobook narration, or voice responses. Runs entirely on-device via MLX - private, no API keys.
How do I install the Speak Tts skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add EmZod/speak --skill speak-tts. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Speak Tts popular?
It lives in EmZod/speak, which has 8 GitHub stars and 0 forks.
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