Speak or render text to speech locally. An agent skill from codewhale-hq/Codewhale.

MITAuto-check: notesMedia & Creative

Install Tts

skills CLI
$ npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill tts -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install codewhale-hq/Codewhale tts --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codewhale-hq/Codewhale.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/crates/tui/assets/skills/tts .claude/skills/tts && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
tts
GitHub stars
41k
Token cost
~279 tokens
SKILL.md length
137 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
63
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Speak or render text to speech locally. An agent skill from codewhale-hq/Codewhale.

  • Works in 3 steps: Keep utterances short; split long text… → Confirm voice and speed when the user… → For files, report the path, format, and…
  • An audio version of text
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, Setup, Workflow and Non-goals
  • Calls apt

What it does

Tts is an agent skill from codewhale-hq/Codewhale. Speak or render text to speech locally. Use when: read aloud, speak, voice output, tts, text to speech, or an audio version of text.

Its SKILL.md is about 280 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Media & Creative, covering Text to speech and voice. The repository describes itself as: Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • An audio version of text
  • Tasks that involve Text to speech and voice

Example prompts

  • “/tts”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Keep utterances short; split long text at paragraph breaks.
  2. Confirm voice and speed when the user cares; otherwise default voice, normal rate.
  3. For files, report the path, format, and duration.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fead51e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • apt

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Tts loads about 279 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 34 tokens; SKILL.md has 137 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~34
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~279

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NoteRuns commands with sudoSKILL.md:15
    Linux engine is missing (`sudo apt install speech-dispatcher` or `espeak-ng`):

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from codewhale-hq/Codewhale at commit fead51e, republished under its MIT licence (© codewhale-hq). 137 words, ~279 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/tts/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
tts
description
Speak or render text to speech locally. Use when: read aloud, speak, voice output, tts, text to speech, or an audio version of text.
invocation
model+user

Text to Speech

When to use

Reading text aloud or rendering speech audio files, using only the voices already on the machine.

Setup

No account or API key. Pick the platform command; fail loud when the Linux engine is missing (sudo apt install speech-dispatcher or espeak-ng):

  • macOS: say -v Samantha -o out.aiff "text" (list voices: say -v '?')
  • Linux: spd-say "text" or espeak-ng -w out.wav "text"
  • Windows: PowerShell System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer

Workflow

  1. Keep utterances short; split long text at paragraph breaks.
  2. Confirm voice and speed when the user cares; otherwise default voice, normal rate.
  3. For files, report the path, format, and duration.

Non-goals

  • Do not clone voices or impersonate a real person.
  • Do not call cloud TTS APIs (different cost and privacy posture — ask first).
  • Do not play audio unprompted in shared environments; render a file instead.

© codewhale-hq, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in crates/tui/assets/skills/tts of codewhale-hq/Codewhale.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fead51e

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Questions about Tts

What does Tts do?

Speak or render text to speech locally. An agent skill from codewhale-hq/Codewhale. Tts is an agent skill from codewhale-hq/Codewhale. Speak or render text to speech locally.

When should I use Tts?

Tts fits situations like: an audio version of text; tasks that involve Text to speech and voice.

How do I install Tts in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill tts -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (crates/tui/assets/skills/tts in codewhale-hq/Codewhale) into .claude/skills/tts in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Tts in Codex?

Run `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill tts -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (crates/tui/assets/skills/tts in codewhale-hq/Codewhale) into .agents/skills/tts in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Tts in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill tts -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/tts, .gemini/skills/tts, .github/skills/tts and .opencode/skills/tts in your project.

What does Tts need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Tts needs the command-line tools its instructions call (apt).

Does Tts access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Tts safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (runs commands with sudo), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Tts use?

Tts is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Tts use?

About 279 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Tts?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Tts: MoneyPrinterTurbo Video Generator (harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo, 129k stars), HyperFrames Media Use (heygen-com/hyperframes, 59k stars), Videodb (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars) and Music (tadaspetra/loop, 296 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Tts?

codewhale-hq (a GitHub organization) maintains it in codewhale-hq/Codewhale, which has 41,079 GitHub stars. The repository holds 63 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: codewhale-hq/Codewhale on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.