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tts

Skill9 starsChanged 6 months agoApache-2.0View on GitHub

Synthesize speech from text and play it through the macOS speakers. Talks to a local LocalKin Service Audio Server (default :8001 / Kokoro). When `record` is running with audio=true, the spoken audio is captured into the recording — use this in place of `shell say` for high-quality multilingual narration in demo videos. Set the TTS_ENDPOINT env var to point at a different server.

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SKILL.md

tts — speech synthesis via LocalKin Service Audio (Kokoro)

Wraps the LocalKin Service Audio API at :8001/synthesize and plays the returned WAV through the macOS default output (afplay).

Why this is a SKILL.md and not a native skill

It's three lines of curl + afplay. Pushing it into pkg/skill/ would violate the "thin kernel + fat skill" thesis and make it harder for users to fork. As an external SKILL.md it's also a forge template: the next HTTP service that needs wrapping can be modeled on this file.

How record captures the narration

record action=start audio=true enables ScreenCaptureKit's system-audio tap. afplay writes to the default output device, which the tap captures. End result: the spoken text shows up on the video's audio track without any extra plumbing.

Examples

tts text="接下来我会打开计算器" voice="zf_xiaoxiao"
tts text="Now I'll open Safari and search for KinClaw"

Override the endpoint

TTS_ENDPOINT=http://otherbox:8001 kinclaw -soul souls/pilot.soul.md

Failure modes

  • tts: server returned HTTP 000 — server isn't running on the configured port.
  • tts: server returned HTTP 4xx/5xx — server is up but rejected the request; the body is echoed to stderr.
  • afplay: ... — playback failed (no audio device, sandboxed environment).

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