Zai tts

Text-to-speech conversion using GLM-TTS service via the `uvx zai-tts` command for generating audio from text. Use when (1) User requests audio/voice output with the "tts" trigger or keyword. (2) Content needs to be spoken rather than read (multitasking, accessibility, podcast, driving, cooking). (3) Using pre-cloned voices for speech.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add aahl/skills --skill zai-tts

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2 things to look at

reads credentialsReads from 2 credential sources: `ZAI_AUDIO_USERID` and 1 more.
runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 6 commands, including `uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav` and 5 more.

SKILL.md

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Zai-TTS

Generate high-quality text-to-speech audio using GLM-TTS service via the uvx zai-tts command. Before using this skill, you need to configure the environment variables ZAI_AUDIO_USERID and ZAI_AUDIO_TOKEN, which can be obtained by login audio.z.ai and executing localStorage['auth-storage'] in the console via F12 Developer Tools.

Usage

uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav
uvx zai-tts -f path/to/file.txt -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav

Changing speed, volume

uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav --speed 1.5
uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav --speed 1.5 --volume 2

Changing the voice

uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav --voice system_002

Available voices

system_001: Lila. A cheerful, standard-pronunciation female voice system_002: Chloe. A gentle, elegant, intelligent female voice system_003: Ethan. A sunny, standard-pronunciation male voice

Retrieve all available voices using shell commands:

uvx zai-tts -l

If you want to use custom voices, please complete voice cloning on the website audio.z.ai first.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.