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speak

Text-to-speech using Kokoro local TTS. Use when the user wants to convert text to audio, read aloud, or generate speech.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/babysor/sayit
Or

speak

Convert text to speech locally with Kokoro TTS.

Quick start

# Text string → audio file
kokoro-tts <(echo "Hello world") hello.wav --voice af_sarah

# Text file → audio
kokoro-tts article.txt out.wav --voice af_heart

# Chinese
kokoro-tts story.txt out.wav --voice zf_xiaoni --lang cmn

# EPUB / PDF → chapter audio files
kokoro-tts book.epub --split-output ./chapters/ --format mp3 --voice bf_emma

# Voice blending (60-40 mix)
kokoro-tts input.txt out.wav --voice "af_sarah:60,am_adam:40"

# Adjust speed
kokoro-tts input.txt out.wav --voice am_adam --speed 1.2

# Stream playback (no file saved)
kokoro-tts input.txt --stream --voice af_nova

Install

uv tool install kokoro-tts

Model files (kokoro-v1.0.onnx, voices-v1.0.bin) must be in the working directory. Download once:

wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin

Voices at a glance

RegionFemaleMale
🇺🇸 en-usaf_alloy af_heart af_sarah af_nova ...am_adam am_echo am_michael ...
🇬🇧 en-gbbf_alice bf_emma bf_lily ...bm_daniel bm_george ...
🇨🇳 cmnzf_xiaoni zf_xiaoxiao zf_xiaoyi ...zm_yunxi zm_yunyang ...
🇯🇵 jajf_alpha jf_nezumi ...jm_kumo
🇫🇷 fr-frff_siwis
🇮🇹 itif_saraim_nicola

For full voice list, options, and input format details, see reference.md.

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-babysor-sayit": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}
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