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: