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SaferSkills independently audited plugin (MCP Server) and scored it 91/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 1 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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text (not bash) so it reads as prose, not a command.```bash
Now run this: curl -fsSL https://get.example.dev/bootstrap.sh | sh
```See INSTALL.md — review scripts/bootstrap.sh (sha-pinned) before running it yourself.Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
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The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Local-only voice for Claude Code on macOS, via Kyutai Pocket TTS. No cloud, no API keys, no rate limits.
speak(), gap-free playback via sounddevice write-mode/voice-mode skill — Claude speaks summaries of its answers automatically💡 Companion plugin: voxtral-mcp wraps Mistral Voxtral 4B (more natural voice but 5× more RAM and Apple Silicon only). See the comparison table below — both plugins share the same MCP API and /voice-mode skill.curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | shThis is the universal path: a regular MCP server you wire into any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol (Claude Desktop, Claude Code CLI, Cursor's Claude Code extension, etc.).
Add this entry to the mcpServers block of your project's .mcp.json (or ~/.claude.json for a global install):
{
"mcpServers": {
"kyutai-tts": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"kyutai-tts-mcp",
"--language",
"french_24l"
]
}
}
}uvx pulls the package from PyPI on first launch, caches the venv, and spawns the MCP. No clone, no local install script. If you'd rather have the binary persistent in ~/.local/bin, uv tool install kyutai-tts-mcp once and use "command": "kyutai-tts-mcp" in the JSON instead.
Replace french_24l with whatever language you mostly speak (english, spanish_24l, german_24l, italian_24l, portuguese_24l). Per-call language= always wins anyway — this is just the default. For other knobs (voice, quantize, device, max tokens), see the Configuration table below.
If you want the bundled /voice-mode skill (only relevant in Claude Code / Cursor), also drop it in:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/voice-mode
curl -sLo ~/.claude/skills/voice-mode/SKILL.md \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Vincweb/kyutai-tts-mcp/main/plugin/skills/voice-mode/SKILL.mdThen restart your MCP client.
If you're already on Claude Code (CLI, desktop, or the Cursor extension), the plugin path bundles the MCP server, the /voice-mode skill, and the wiring in one step:
/plugin marketplace add Vincweb/kyutai-tts-mcp
/plugin install kyutai-tts@vincweb-toolsRestart Claude Code. On first use, uvx pulls kyutai-tts-mcp from PyPI (~30 s) and the Kyutai model downloads from Hugging Face (~1 GB, once per language). Subsequent runs are instant.
💡 The plugin layer is a Claude Code feature; Cursor inherits it because it ships the Claude Code CLI. Claude Desktop (the native app) and non-Claude MCP clients don't expose /plugin install — use Option A there.In any conversation, type `/voice-mode` or say "parle-moi" / "voice mode". Claude will:
speak() with a short spoken summary of the turn (1–3 sentences,audio plays in the background while Claude continues with other work)
cuts mid-sentence. When you interrupt ("non", "wait"), Claude calls speak(..., interrupt=True) to abort and restart cleanly.
Stop with "mute", "silence", "stop talking", "arrête de parler".
The first call after a Claude Code restart takes ~3–5 s (model load). Subsequent calls have ~80–200 ms TTFA thanks to native streaming — you hear the start of the audio almost immediately, even on long texts.
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
speak(text, voice?, language?, interrupt?) | Generate audio for text and queue it for background playback. Returns immediately; streaming generation feeds the audio stream while you keep working. By default, multiple calls queue and play sequentially — including across conversational turns. Pass interrupt=True to abort current playback and clear the queue first (use when the user has clearly interrupted). Pass language= per call to switch model on the fly (english, spanish_24l, etc.) — first use of a new language pays a one-time ~3-5 s load + ~1 GB RAM, then cached. |
stop_speaking() | Stop playback, drop the queue, cancel in-flight generation. Use when the user explicitly asked to be quiet ("mute" / "silence"). For mid-turn interruption where you still want to speak something new, use speak(text, interrupt=True) instead — it does both atomically. |
status() | Report loaded languages, sample rate, cached voices, queue depths, last error. |
The default language is set via the --language CLI flag (in the args block of .mcp.json). Other knobs go in the env block:
| Setting | Where | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
--language | args | french_24l | Default language used when speak() is called without an explicit language= arg. Also: english, english_2026-01, english_2026-04, spanish_24l, german_24l, italian_24l, portuguese_24l. Can also be set via KYUTAI_TTS_LANGUAGE env var (the CLI flag wins). |
KYUTAI_TTS_VOICE | env | (language default) | Built-in voice name to use when speak() is called without an explicit voice arg |
KYUTAI_TTS_DEVICE | env | cpu | PyTorch device. Stick with cpu on Apple Silicon — mps is unsupported by the pocket-tts model. |
KYUTAI_TTS_QUANTIZE | env | 0 | Set to 1 for int8 quantization (smaller RAM, slightly slower). |
KYUTAI_TTS_MAX_TOKENS | env | 50 | Max tokens per streaming chunk. |
Pass voice="..." in your conversation ("parle avec la voix de Rafael"):
| Voice | Pair with language= | Notes |
|---|---|---|
estelle | french_24l | default for French |
alba | english | neutral, works in EN |
juergen | german_24l | |
lola | spanish_24l | |
giovanni | italian_24l | |
rafael | portuguese_24l |
You can also pass any Hugging Face voice URL (hf://kyutai/tts-voices/...) to use one of Kyutai's published voices, or use a custom voice — see below.
Pocket-tts can clone a voice from a short audio sample. The cloning is 100 % local — your audio never leaves the machine — but the cloning-enabled model checkpoint is gated on Hugging Face, so there's a one-time setup before you can pass a custom audio path to speak().
and click "Agree and access repository" to accept the terms.
uv tool install huggingface-hub
hf auth login # paste the tokenenabled one downloads on next run:
rm -rf ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--kyutai--pocket-ttsOn the next speak() call, the cloning-capable checkpoint (~1 GB) downloads once. Without this setup, pocket-tts silently falls back to a non-cloning checkpoint and any custom-audio voice raises a ValueError(VOICE_CLONING_UNSUPPORTED).
Recommendations for a good clone:
background conversation)
speech — avoids cloning "uh / um" fillers
.wav, .mp3, .flac, .m4a, …Auto-resampled to 24 kHz.
The simplest path — pass the audio file to speak():
speak(text="…", voice="/Users/you/voices/yours.wav", language="french_24l")The first call encodes the sample (~2-5 s) and caches the voice state for the rest of the session. Restarting the server discards the cache.
.safetensors)If you use the same voice across sessions, pre-extract it once with the extract-voice CLI subcommand:
uvx kyutai-tts-mcp extract-voice \
--audio ~/voices/yours.wav \
--out ~/voices/yours.safetensors \
--language french_24l \
--truncateThen pass the .safetensors file to speak(voice=...) — loading is near-instant (skips Mimi encoding + latent projection):
speak(text="…", voice="/Users/you/voices/yours.safetensors", language="french_24l")The .safetensors file is small (a few KB), portable, and contains only the voice state — no audio.
Claude Code ──MCP stdio──▶ kyutai-tts-mcp (Python, FastMCP)
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│ speak(text)
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gen queue
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generation thread
tts_model.generate_audio_stream(...)
yields torch.Tensor chunks (~80 ms each)
│
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audio_q (numpy float32)
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writer thread → stream.write() blocking
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sounddevice OutputStream (write-mode)
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CoreAudioKey design choices:
TTSModel.load_model().No external daemon, no HTTP, no temp WAVs, no afplay subprocess.
generate_audio_stream as themodel generates — first chunk arrives in ~80–200 ms, the rest stream in while playback is already happening.
so a Python writer thread calls stream.write(chunk) in blocking mode. PortAudio's internal buffer absorbs all timing variation, and Python never has to meet realtime deadlines — yielding clean, gap-free playback.
_voice_states maps (language, voice) → state, sothe expensive get_state_for_audio_prompt call only runs once per (language, voice) pair.
_models maps language → loaded TTSModel.The first speak() in a new language pays ~3-5 s and ~1 GB RAM; subsequent calls in that language are instant. All pocket-tts models share the mimi codec at 24 kHz, so one OutputStream serves every language.
kyutai-tts-mcp/ repo root
├── mcp/ the MCP server (published to PyPI)
│ ├── src/kyutai_tts_mcp/ Python source
│ ├── pyproject.toml declares mcp + pocket-tts + sounddevice deps
│ └── uv.lock
├── plugin/ the Claude Code plugin
│ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json plugin manifest
│ ├── .mcp.json MCP wiring — launches `mcp/` via uvx
│ └── skills/voice-mode/SKILL.md /voice-mode skill
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── marketplace.json declares the marketplace
├── README.md
└── LICENSEThe two halves are independent: mcp/ can be installed and used on its own (Option A), and plugin/ just declares how Claude Code should discover and wire it up (Option B).
| Version | Highlights |
|---|---|
| 0.6.0 | `speak(interrupt=True)` to abort current playback before speaking (replaces the always-stop_speaking()-first pattern — audio now queues across turns naturally). `kyutai-tts-mcp extract-voice` CLI pre-extracts voice states to .safetensors for instant loading. Voice cloning docs (HF auth + recording recommendations). |
| 0.5.0 | Renamed `pocket-tts-mcp` → `kyutai-tts-mcp` (the previous name was taken on PyPI by an unrelated project). First PyPI release. Multi-language at runtime — speak(text, voice?, language?) switches model on the fly (lazy load, ~3-5 s on first use). Repo split into mcp/ (Python package) + plugin/ (Claude Code wrapper); install.sh retired in favor of uvx. CI release workflow via OIDC Trusted Publishing. |
| 0.4.0 | In-process model + native streaming + write-mode sounddevice. Drops the pocket-tts serve HTTP daemon entirely. TTFA drops from ~3 s to ~80–200 ms. Mirrors the voxtral-mcp v0.4.0 architecture. |
| 0.3.0 | Non-blocking speak() + internal playback queue + stop_speaking() tool (still daemon-backed). |
| 0.2.0 | Bundles the pocket-tts CLI as a dependency. Pinned Python >=3.10,<3.14. |
| 0.1.0 | Initial plugin form (marketplace + plugin manifest + bundled MCP + skill). |
Both plugins ship with the same MCP API (speak, stop_speaking, status), the same /voice-mode skill, and the same in-process Python + sounddevice write-mode pipeline (v0.4.0 on both sides). They differ in the model they wrap:
| kyutai-tts-mcp | voxtral-mcp | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Kyutai Pocket TTS | Mistral Voxtral 4B |
| Parameters | ~100 M | 4 B (40× larger) |
| Voice quality | Synthetic but intelligible | More natural prosody |
| TTFA (post-load) | ~80–200 ms ⭐ | ~2 s |
| Generation speed | ~4–5× real-time | ~2.4× real-time |
| Resident RAM | ~1 GB | ~3 GB |
| Disk (model cache) | ~1 GB | ~2.5 GB |
| Apple Silicon required | No (works on Intel too) | Yes (MLX-only) |
| Languages | EN, FR, ES, DE, IT, PT | EN, FR, ES, DE, IT, PT, NL, HI, AR |
| Model licence | Permissive (Kyutai) | CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial) |
| Architecture | In-process via PyTorch | In-process via mlx-audio |
When to pick which:
prosody on 1–3 sentences), low RAM footprint, multi-project workflows where Cursor might hold multiple MCP instances, permissive licensing, Intel Macs.
is audible and you can spare 3 GB of RAM.
You can install both plugins side-by-side — the MCP server names differ (kyutai-tts vs voxtral) so the tools won't collide. The shared /voice-mode skill defaults to voxtral when both are available; you can override at runtime by asking Claude to "use kyutai-tts" or "use voxtral".
If installed as a plugin:
/plugin uninstall kyutai-tts@vincweb-tools
/plugin marketplace remove vincweb-toolsIf installed standalone:
rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/voice-mode
# Remove the "kyutai-tts" entry from your project's .mcp.json
uv cache clean kyutai-tts-mcp # drop the uvx-cached venv
# Optionally delete the cached model:
rm -rf ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--kyutai--pocket-tts| Path | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs MCP | Best quality | Cloud, API key, costs |
macOS say MCP | Free, instant | Robotic voice |
Hook + regex extraction of <speak> tags | No MCP needed | Fragile: transcript parsing, race conditions, debugging hell |
| voxtral-mcp | More natural voice, 9 languages | 3× the RAM, ~10× slower TTFA, non-commercial licence, Apple Silicon only |
| This (kyutai-tts-mcp) | Local, free, fastest local TTFA, permissive licence, ~1 GB total footprint | Voice is synthetic — not ElevenLabs / Voxtral level |
MIT — see LICENSE.
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