sherpa-onnx-tts

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by firecrawl · part of firecrawl/openclaw

Local text-to-speech via sherpa-onnx (offline, no cloud)

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🧰 Not standalone. This skill ships with firecrawl/openclaw and only works together with that tool — install the tool first, then add this skill.

Local text-to-speech via sherpa-onnx (offline, no cloud)

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This is the exact playbook injected into your agent when the skill activates — shown here so you can audit it before installing. You don't need to read it to use the skill.

by firecrawl

Local text-to-speech via sherpa-onnx (offline, no cloud) npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/openclaw --skill sherpa-onnx-tts Download ZIP GitHub3

sherpa-onnx-tts

Local TTS using the sherpa-onnx offline CLI.

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/openclaw --skill sherpa-onnx-tts

Run this in your project — your agent picks the skill up automatically.

Install

Download the runtime for your OS (extracts into ~/.openclaw/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime)
Download a voice model (extracts into ~/.openclaw/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/models)

Update ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

Copy & paste — that's it

{
 skills: {
 entries: {
 "sherpa-onnx-tts": {
 env: {
 SHERPA_ONNX_RUNTIME_DIR: "~/.openclaw/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/runtime",
 SHERPA_ONNX_MODEL_DIR: "~/.openclaw/tools/sherpa-onnx-tts/models/vits-piper-en_US-lessac-high",
 },
 },
 },
 },
}

The wrapper lives in this skill folder. Run it directly, or add the wrapper to PATH:

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export PATH="{baseDir}/bin:$PATH"

Usage

Copy & paste — that's it

{baseDir}/bin/sherpa-onnx-tts -o ./tts.wav "Hello from local TTS."

Notes:

Pick a different model from the sherpa-onnx tts-models release if you want another voice.
If the model dir has multiple .onnx files, set SHERPA_ONNX_MODEL_FILE or pass --model-file.
You can also pass --tokens-file or --data-dir to override the defaults.
Windows: run node {baseDir}\\bin\\sherpa-onnx-tts -o tts.wav "Hello from local TTS."