Requirements
- Target platform
- OpenClaw
- Install method
- Manual import
- Extraction
- Extract archive
- Prerequisites
- OpenClaw
- Primary doc
- SKILL.md
Give your agent the ability to speak to you real-time. Talk to your Claude! Ultra-fast TTS, text-to-speech, voice synthesis, audio output with ~90ms latency....
Give your agent the ability to speak to you real-time. Talk to your Claude! Ultra-fast TTS, text-to-speech, voice synthesis, audio output with ~90ms latency....
Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually.
I downloaded a skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder and install it by following the included instructions. Tell me what you changed and call out any manual steps you could not complete.
I downloaded an updated skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder, compare it with my current installation, and upgrade it while preserving any custom configuration unless the package docs explicitly say otherwise. Summarize what changed and any follow-up checks I should run.
Give your agent the ability to speak to you real-time. Ultra-fast text-to-speech with ~90ms latency and 8 built-in voices.
# Play immediately - you should hear "Hello world" through your speakers speakturbo "Hello world" # Output: β‘ 92ms β βΆ 93ms β β 1245ms # Verify it's working by saving to file speakturbo "Hello world" -o test.wav ls -lh test.wav # Should show ~50-100KB file Output explained: β‘ = first audio received, βΆ = playback started, β = done
The first execution takes 2-5 seconds while the daemon starts and loads the model into memory. Subsequent calls are ~90ms to first sound. # First run (slow - daemon starting) speakturbo "Starting up" # ~2-5 seconds # Second run (fast - daemon already running) speakturbo "Now I'm fast" # ~90ms
# Basic - plays immediately (default voice: alba) speakturbo "Hello world" # Save to file (no audio playback) speakturbo "Hello" -o output.wav # Save to specific file speakturbo "Goodbye" -o goodbye.wav # Quiet mode (suppress status messages, still plays audio) speakturbo "Hello" -q # List available voices speakturbo --list-voices
VoiceTypealbaFemale (default)mariusMalejavertMalejeanMalefantineFemalecosetteFemaleeponineFemaleazelmaFemale
MetricValueTime to first sound~90ms (daemon warm)First run2-5s (daemon startup)Real-time factor~4x fasterSample rate24kHz mono
speakturbo (Rust CLI, 2.2MB) β β HTTP streaming (port 7125) βΌ speakturbo-daemon (Python + pocket-tts) β β Model in memory, auto-shutdown after 1hr idle βΌ Audio playback (rodio)
Encoding: UTF-8 Quotes in text: Use escaping: speakturbo "She said \"hello\"" Long text: Supported, streams as it generates
The -o flag only writes to directories that are on the allowlist. By default, these are: /tmp and system temp directories Your current working directory ~/.speakturbo/ If you need to write elsewhere, use --allow-dir: speakturbo "Hello" -o /custom/path/audio.wav --allow-dir /custom/path To permanently allow a directory, add it to ~/.speakturbo/config: mkdir -p ~/.speakturbo && echo "/custom/path" >> ~/.speakturbo/config The config file is one directory per line. Lines starting with # are comments.
CodeMeaning0Success (audio played/saved)1Error (daemon connection failed, invalid args)
Use speakturbo when: You need instant audio feedback (~90ms) Speed matters more than voice variety Built-in voices are sufficient Use speak instead when: You need custom voice cloning (Morgan Freeman, etc.) β speak "text" --voice ~/.chatter/voices/morgan_freeman.wav You need emotion tags like [laugh], [sigh] Quality/variety matters more than speed See the speak skill documentation for full usage.
No audio plays: # Check daemon is running curl http://127.0.0.1:7125/health # Expected: {"status":"ready","voices":["alba","marius",...]} # Verify by saving to file and playing manually speakturbo "test" -o /tmp/test.wav afplay /tmp/test.wav # macOS aplay /tmp/test.wav # Linux Daemon won't start: # Check port availability lsof -i :7125 # Manually kill and restart pkill -f "daemon_streaming" speakturbo "test" # Auto-restarts daemon First run is slow: This is expected. The daemon needs to load the ~100MB model into memory. Subsequent calls will be fast (~90ms).
The daemon auto-starts on first use and auto-shuts down after 1 hour idle. # Check status curl http://127.0.0.1:7125/health # Manual stop pkill -f "daemon_streaming" # View logs cat /tmp/speakturbo.log
FeaturespeakturbospeakTime to first sound~90ms~4-8sVoice cloningββ Emotion tagsββ Voices8 built-inCustom wav filesEnginepocket-ttsChatterbox
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