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speak-summary
Convert text, markdown, or a summary produced by another skill into a listenable MP3 using local CPU-only neural text-to-speech. Rewrites written prose for the ear before synthesising. Use when the user asks to "read this out", "turn this into audio", "make an MP3", "I want to listen to this", "podcast version", or wants a spoken digest for a commute or breakfast.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Speak Summary Turn written text into audio someone will actually want to listen to. This skill is deliberately a terminal step in a chain. Another skill (or you) produces the text; this one makes it listenable. It pairs naturally with roundup, daily-prep, meeting-minutes, or any summarisation work. Everything runs locally on CPU. No text is sent to a cloud speech service, which matters when the content is confidential, and it means the skill works in a headless cloud agent or CI container just as well as on a laptop. Prerequisites The synthesis engine is Kyutai pocket-tts, a small neural TTS model designed to run on CPUs. The bundled script installs it automatically into a cached virtualenv on first use, so usually you need do nothing. To install it explicitly: pocket-tts requires Python >=3.10 and <3.15. The script searches for a compatible interpreter rather than assuming python3 is one — worth knowing if you are on a very new Python, where installation would otherwise fail. You also need an encoder. ffmpeg is strongly preferred (brew install ffmpeg or apt-get install -y ffmpeg); on macOS the script falls back to the built-in afconvert and emits .m4a instead of .mp3. The first run downloads the model (~1GB) from Hugging Face. After that it is fully offline and synthesises roughly 6x faster than real-time. The important step: rewrite for the ear Do not feed written text straight into the synthesiser. Prose that reads well on screen is tiring to listen to. Rewriting it first is what separates a useful audio digest from an unlistenable one. Produce a spoken script that: Opens with orientation. What this is, what it covers, roughly how long it runs. Replaces bullets with connective prose. "First… The bigger one is… Finally…" — a listener has no visual structure to lean on, so carry it in the language. Expands abbreviations on first use. "PR" becomes "pull request", "CI" becomes "continuous integration". Acronyms that read fine are noise when spoken. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills github/speak-summary