edge-tts

name	edge-tts
description	Text-to-speech via Microsoft Edge TTS (free, neural voices).
metadata	{"version":"1.0.9"}

Edge TTS

Direct Node.js client for Microsoft Edge's online TTS service. The canonical client is scripts/say.mjs; scripts/say.sh is the shell entrypoint wrapper. There are no Python, CLI-wrapper, or legacy shell fallbacks.

Usage

./scripts/say.sh "Привет" ru +30%             # Synthesize and play with an available local MP3 player
./scripts/say.sh "Привет" ru 1 /tmp/hello.mp3 # Save MP3; numeric rate multiplier is supported
./scripts/say.sh "Привет" ru +30% /tmp/a.mp3 /tmp/a.jsonl
./scripts/say.sh --text "Hello" --lang en --write-media /tmp/hello.mp3
./scripts/say.sh --file input.txt --voice ru-RU-SvetlanaNeural --write-media out.mp3 --write-subtitles out.srt
./scripts/say.sh --list-voices

CLI Contract

say.sh delegates to say.mjs, which supports both positional and flag-style invocation. Positional form is compact for humans and simple wrappers; flag form is explicit and self-documenting for operators.

CLI Options

• --text, --file — text source; - means stdin for files.
• --lang, --voice — language shortcut or explicit voice.
• --rate, --volume, --pitch — Edge prosody controls.
• --boundary — SentenceBoundary or WordBoundary.
• --write-media — MP3 output path; - means stdout.
• --write-subtitles — SRT output path; - means stderr.
• --write-metadata — JSONL boundary metadata output path.
• --list-voices — direct voice list request.

Playback

Playback is optional and only applies when no media output path is provided. say.mjs auto-detects a local MP3 player and removes the temp file after playback when the player is blocking.

Default candidates:

• Cross-platform if installed: ffplay, mpv, vlc/cvlc.
• Linux/BSD extras: mpg123.
• macOS default: afplay.
• Windows default fallback: the system-registered MP3 app through PowerShell Start-Process.

If no player exists, generation is still available through --write-media; the agent can then play the MP3 with any system-specific tool. Windows default-app playback uses delayed temp cleanup because registered apps usually detach immediately.

Dependencies

• Node.js 18+.
• A local MP3 player only for direct playback mode.
• Internet access.

Notes

• Non-blocking playback runs the selected player in background.
• Accepts text from argv or stdin.
• Built-in language shortcuts: en, ru, de, fr, es, it, zh, ja.
• Default rate: +30%.
• Rate/volume accept Edge percent strings and numeric multipliers: 1 = +100%, 0.8 = +80%, -0.5 = -50%.
• The script implements direct TLS/WebSocket handshake, MUID, Sec-MS-GEC, MP3 streaming, boundary metadata, subtitles, and voice listing.