Google Tts

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants to: narrate a document
• Read aloud text
• Generate audio from a file
• Convert text to speech

Example prompts

• “read this aloud”
• “narrate this”
• “create a recording”
• “/google-tts”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in GOOGLE_TTS_API_KEY

Workflow steps

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

1. 1If user provides a file path, use --file. For generated content, write clean prose to /tmp/tts_input.md first.
2. 2Default voice: en-US-Neural2-D (male) or en-US-Neural2-F (female). Use Neural2 for best quality/cost balance.
3. 3Generate: python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py tts --file /tmp/tts_input.md --output ~/Downloads/recording.mp3
4. 4Report file location and size. Default output to ~/Downloads/.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 281d88d. 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

  Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python
  • pip

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

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

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • GOOGLE_TTS_API_KEY

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

Context cost

Google Tts loads about 883 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 135 tokens; SKILL.md has 217 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~135

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~883

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

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from sanjay3290/ai-skills at commit 281d88d, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© sanjay3290). 217 words, ~883 tokens.

name

google-tts

description

Convert documents and text to audio using Google Cloud Text-to-Speech. Use this skill when the user wants to: narrate a document, read aloud text, generate audio from a file, convert text to speech, create a recording of documentation or analysis, create a podcast from a document, or use Google TTS/text-to-speech. Trigger phrases: "read this aloud", "narrate this", "create a recording", "text to speech", "TTS", "convert to audio", "audio from document", "listen to this", "generate audio", "google tts", "create a podcast".

python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py voices --language en-US --type Neural2
python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py voices --json

# From text or document (PDF, DOCX, MD, TXT)
python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py tts --text "Hello world" --output ~/Downloads/hello.mp3
python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py tts --file /path/to/doc.pdf --output ~/Downloads/narration.mp3

# With voice, rate, pitch, encoding options
python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py tts --file doc.md --voice en-US-Neural2-F --rate 0.9 --encoding MP3 --output ~/Downloads/out.mp3

[
  {"speaker": "host1", "text": "Welcome to our podcast!"},
  {"speaker": "host2", "text": "Thanks for having me..."}
]

python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py podcast --script /tmp/script.json --output ~/Downloads/podcast.mp3
python skills/google-tts/scripts/google_tts.py podcast --script /tmp/script.json --voice1 en-US-Neural2-J --voice2 en-US-Neural2-H --rate 0.9 --output ~/Downloads/podcast.mp3

© sanjay3290, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts) in skills/google-tts of sanjay3290/ai-skills.

• SKILL.md
• .gitignore
• scripts/extract.py
• scripts/google_tts.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 281d88d