π Say OpenClaw Plugin & Skill | ClawHub
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What this skill does
Text-to-Speech via macOS say command with Siri Natural Voices. Use for generating speech audio, TTS clips, or speaking text aloud on macOS.
Install
openclaw skills install @tobihagemann/saynpx clawhub@latest install sayFull SKILL.md
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| say | Text-to-Speech via macOS say command with Siri Natural Voices. Use for generating speech audio, TTS clips, or speaking text aloud on macOS. |
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say
Use say for on-device text-to-speech on macOS.
Siri Natural Voices (recommended)
Siri voices are the best macOS TTS voices but cannot be selected via -v. Instead, run say without -v β it uses the system default voice. Switch languages via defaults write:
# Switch to German
defaults write com.apple.speech.voice.prefs SystemTTSLanguage -string "de"
say "Hallo, wie geht's?" -o output_de.aiff
# Switch to Chinese (Mandarin)
defaults write com.apple.speech.voice.prefs SystemTTSLanguage -string "cmn"
say "δ½ ε₯½οΌδΈη" -o output_zh.aiff
No process restart needed β the next say invocation picks up the new language immediately.
Prerequisites
Download the desired Siri voices first in System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content and set them as the system voice for each language.
Check which voices are currently configured:
defaults read com.apple.Accessibility SpokenContentDefaultVoiceSelectionsByLanguage
Fallback: select voice via -v
For non-Siri voices, use -v directly:
say -v 'Tingting (Enhanced)' "δ½ ε₯½οΌδΈη"
say -v '?' # list all installed voices (Siri voices not listed)
Output to file
say -o output.aiff "Hello world"
ffmpeg -y -i output.aiff -ar 22050 -ac 1 output.wav # convert to WAV
Options
-v <voice>β Select a non-Siri voice-r <rate>β Speaking rate in words per minute (e.g.-r 150)-o <file>β Save to AIFF file instead of playing aloud
Notes
sayadds natural pauses at punctuation β no manual sentence splitting needed- AIFF is the native output format; convert with ffmpeg for WAV/MP3
- For batch generation: set language once, generate all clips, then switch β minimizes
defaults writecalls