test-edge-tts

Speak user-provided text using edge-tts (Microsoft neural TTS, free, no API key).

Usage

/test-edge-tts "Hello, this is a test"
/test-edge-tts "Any text you want spoken aloud"

How It Works

1. Parse the user's text from the command arguments
2. Generate speech with edge-tts and play it with ffplay

Command

edge-tts --text "USER_TEXT" --voice en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural --rate "+0%" --write-media /tmp/test-edge-tts.mp3 && ffplay -nodisp -autoexit /tmp/test-edge-tts.mp3

Instructions

When invoked:

1. Extract the text from the user's arguments (everything after /test-edge-tts)
2. Run the edge-tts command above, replacing USER_TEXT with the provided text
3. Run it in background so it doesn't block
4. Binary: /Users/zanearcher/miniconda3/bin/edge-tts
5. If no text is provided, ask the user what they'd like to hear