Agent skill · creative production · aradotso
voicebox-voice-synthesis
Expert skill for Voicebox — the open-source local voice cloning and TTS studio built with Tauri, React, and FastAPI
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific REST API commands for generating speech and managing voice profiles that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires bun, docker, python, rust installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-09. 70 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Voicebox Voice Synthesis Studio Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection. Voicebox is a local-first, open-source voice cloning and TTS studio — a self-hosted alternative to ElevenLabs. It runs entirely on your machine (macOS MLX/Metal, Windows/Linux CUDA, CPU fallback), exposes a REST API on localhost:17493, and ships with 5 TTS engines, 23 languages, post-processing effects, and a multi-track Stories editor. --- Installation Pre-built Binaries (Recommended) Platform Link --- --- macOS Apple Silicon https://voicebox.sh/download/mac-arm macOS Intel https://voicebox.sh/download/mac-intel Windows https://voicebox.sh/download/windows Docker docker compose up Linux requires building from source: https://voicebox.sh/linux-install Build from Source Prerequisites: Bun, Rust, Python 3.11+, Tauri prerequisites --- Architecture Layer Technology --- --- Desktop App Tauri (Rust) Frontend React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS State Zustand + React Query Backend FastAPI (Python) on port 17493 TTS Engines Qwen3-TTS, LuxTTS, Chatterbox, Chatterbox Turbo, TADA Effects Pedalboard (Spotify) Transcription Whisper / Whisper Turbo Inference MLX (Apple Silicon) / PyTorch (CUDA/ROCm/XPU/CPU) Database SQLite The Python FastAPI backend handles all ML inference. The Tauri Rust shell wraps the frontend and manages the backend process lifecycle. The API is accessible directly at http://localhost:17493 even when using the desktop app. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aradotso/voicebox-voice-synthesis