Skills 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.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/aahl/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/aahl/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/zai-tts" ~/.claude/skills/aahl-skills-zai-tts && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/zai-tts/SKILL.md

source content

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.