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.
Installation
SKILL.md
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.
| Apple Silicon Mac | uname -m → arm64 | Intel not supported | | macOS 12.0+ | swvers | - | | sox | which sox | brew install sox | | ffmpeg | which ffmpeg | brew install ffmpeg | | poppler (PDF) | which pdftotext | brew install poppler |
| Text file | speak article.txt | | Markdown | speak doc.md | | Direct string | speak "Hello" | | Clipboard | pbpaste \| speak | | Stdin | cat file.txt \| speak |
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/emzod/speak --skill speak-tts- Source
- emzod/speak
- Category
- *Creative Media
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is 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. Source: emzod/speak.
How do I install speak-tts?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/emzod/speak --skill speak-tts Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/emzod/speak
Details
- Category
- *Creative Media
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01