Edge TTS English

Generate high-quality English (and multilingual) audio using Microsoft Edge TTS. Use when the user asks to "speak this", "pronounce", "read aloud", "say this...

Generate native-quality English audio using Microsoft Edge TTS (/root/.local/bin/edge-tts).

Workflow

1. Run scripts/speak.sh "<text>" [voice] [output_path]
2. Send the resulting MP3 to the user via message tool with media=<output_path>

bash scripts/speak.sh "Hello, world!" en-US-AriaNeural /tmp/tts_out.mp3

Voices

Voice	Style
en-US-AriaNeural	Female, American (default)
en-US-JennyNeural	Female, American, warm
en-US-GuyNeural	Male, American
en-GB-SoniaNeural	Female, British
en-GB-RyanNeural	Male, British

List all voices: /root/.local/bin/edge-tts --list-voices | grep en-

Notes

• Scripts path: resolve relative to this skill's directory
• edge-tts binary: /root/.local/bin/edge-tts
• Default output: /tmp/edge_tts_output.mp3
• Always send audio via message tool (media param), not as text