speak
Make your computer talk, right from the terminal. Powered by Supertonic 3 — everything runs locally on your CPU. No cloud, no API keys, works offline.
speak "hello world"
speak -v noah "a different voice"
speak "مرحبا بالعالم" # language detected automatically
speak -o clip.wav "or save to a file"
Install
uv tool install speak-cli
No other setup: everything is prebuilt wheels, and the voice models (~400 MB) download automatically the first time you speak. say also works as an alias.
Voices
Ten voices, picked by name (speak --list-voices):
| Female | Male |
|---|---|
| sara (default) | james |
| emma | daniel |
| lily | leo |
| maya | ryan |
| nora | noah |
Prefer one? Make it stick: speak --set-default noah
Options
| Flag | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
-v, --voice |
sara | voice name |
-s, --speed |
1.05 | speech speed (0.7–2.0) |
-l, --lang |
auto | language (31 supported, auto-detected from the text) |
-o, --out FILE |
— | save a WAV instead of playing |
--steps |
8 | quality vs speed (5–12) |
Sprinkle in expression tags for natural delivery: speak "well <laugh> that was funny" (also <breath>, <sigh>, …).
Good to know
- The first call starts a small background service that keeps the model warm — repeat calls speak in under a second. It shuts itself down after 15 idle minutes;
speak --stopends it manually. - Auto-detection recognizes Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Greek, and Hindi by their alphabets; other Latin-script languages need a hint, e.g.
--lang fr.
Licenses
CLI: MIT · Supertonic 3 model weights: OpenRAIL-M
1 maintainer
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