Edge TTS English

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name: edge-tts-english

description: Generate high-quality English (and multilingual) audio using Microsoft Edge TTS. Use when the user asks to "speak this", "pronounce", "read aloud", "say this in English", "озвучь голосом", "прочитай по-английски", "произнеси", or wants to hear text spoken with a native accent for language learning or pronunciation practice. Supports American and British English voices (male and female). Requires edge-tts installed via pipx. Sends the resulting MP3 directly to the user.

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# Edge TTS English

Generate native-quality English audio using Microsoft Edge TTS (`/root/.local/bin/edge-tts`).

Workflow

1. Run `scripts/speak.sh "<text>" [voice] [output_path]`

2. Send the resulting MP3 to the user via `message` tool with `media=<output_path>`

bash scripts/speak.sh "Hello, world!" en-US-AriaNeural /tmp/tts_out.mp3

Voices

| Voice | Style |

|---|---|

| `en-US-AriaNeural` | Female, American (default) |

| `en-US-JennyNeural` | Female, American, warm |

| `en-US-GuyNeural` | Male, American |

| `en-GB-SoniaNeural` | Female, British |

| `en-GB-RyanNeural` | Male, British |

List all voices: `/root/.local/bin/edge-tts --list-voices | grep en-`

Notes