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mlx-tts

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High-risk skill that installs and runs local software via bash ${baseDir}/install.sh and bash ${baseDir}/mlx-tts.sh, invoking brew, uv tool install, mlx_audio.tts.generate, and ffmpeg. These steps download and execute packages and write output files such as ${outdir}/audio.ogg.

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MLX TTS

Text-To-Speech with MLX (Apple Silicon) and open-source models (default QWen3-TTS) locally.

Free and Fast. No API key required. No server required.

Requirements

  • mlx: macOS with Apple Silicon
  • brew: used to install deps if not available

Installation

bash ${baseDir}/install.sh

This script will use brew to install these CLI tools if not available:

  • uv: install python package and run python script
  • mlx_audio: do the real job

Usage

To generate audio from text, run this script:

bash ${baseDir}/mlx-tts.sh "<text>"

Agent Instructions

  1. Run the script: Pass the text to be spoken as an argument.
  2. Handle Output: The script will output a path to a audio file. Use the message tool to send the audio file to the user as an voice message:
{
   "action": "send",
   "filePath": "<filepath>"
}

Example: User: "Say hello world" Agent:

  1. Runs bash path/to/mlx-tts.sh "hello world"
  2. Receives output: /tmp/folder/audio.ogg
  3. Calls message(action="send", filePath="/tmp/folder/audio.ogg", ...)