# generating-audio

This skill prepares scripts for spoken audio and sends them to audio_generate. Use it for voiceovers, ad reads, narration, or character lines.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 232
- Author: SupercmoHQ
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-audio/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/generating-audio

## What it does

The skill helps shape a script for listening: it selects a model and voice, rewrites numbers, dates, and URLs for speech, and divides longer scripts into clips. Unless the user has chosen a voice, the agent offers candidates with previews. Each request needs a `voice_id` from the selected voice.

Speech is generated with `audio_generate`, which accepts up to ten clips in one call. `eleven-v3` is used for expressive reads; other models suit long, even narration or drafts where expressiveness matters less. The skill does not mix tracks or produce music and sound effects, so combining a voiceover with music requires an editor.

Install it in Claude Code with `npx skills`. Model character limits vary, and an over-limit script is rejected rather than shortened. Long scripts may need a natural split or a model with a higher limit.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-audio -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/generating-audio/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/generating-audio/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-audio -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/generating-audio/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-audio -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/generating-audio/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills generating-audio
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/generating-audio/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-audio -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --path skills/generating-audio
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/generating-audio/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-audio -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-audio/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- prepare a script for spoken delivery
- choose a voice by accent and language
- split a long script into separate clips
- format numbers and URLs for speech

## Example prompts
- Prepare this script for narration and show me voice options: `script.txt`.
- Generate an ad read as separate clips for each scene.
- Find a voice for this English script and create the speech with `audio_generate`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: generating-audio
description: ALWAYS read this skill before generating spoken audio or calling audio_generate — a voiceover, narration, an ad read, a character line, or any script read aloud. Turns a script into speech — picks the model and voice, prepares the text for reading, and splits a long script into clips. Use whenever the user asks for text-to-speech, a voiceover, narration, or to have something read or spoken aloud.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: "0.1.0"
  category: creative
  summary: "Converts scripts into audio. Lets you preview voice candidates from top models before generating. It then formats your script's numbers, dates, and URLs so the chosen AI model pronounces them accurately."
---

# Audio Generation

Turn a script into spoken audio via the `audio_generate` tool. Two decisions drive quality: **which
voice** reads it, and **how the script is written for the ear**.

**Scope.** Speech — a voice reading written words, delivered as its own audio file. Nothing here makes
non-speech sound, alters audio that already exists, or combines two tracks into one.

Lip-synced dialogue spoken by a character *inside* a video clip belongs to `generating-videos`.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Settle the script

Generate only from the exact words that will be spoken.

- **Supplied** → use them verbatim.
- **Enough to write them** — the product, audience, platform, and length are known → draft the script
  and show it before generating.
- **Not enough** → ask. Never invent a tagline, product claim, or brand name to fill the gap.

**Write to a duration.** Speech runs about two to three words a second, so a fifteen-second read is
thirty to forty-five words. Set the word count before writing, and trim words rather than speeding up
the delivery.

### Step 2: Pick the model

**`eleven-v3` is the default** — the most expressive read, and right for anything heard as a
performance. Reach for another only on a clear signal:

| Reach for another model when the script… | Model |
| --- | --- |
| Is a long, even read — an explainer, documentary narration, an audiobook chapter — where the voice must not drift | `eleven-multilingual-v2` |
| Is high-volume, a throwaway draft, or cost-sensitive, and expressiveness doesn't matter | `eleven-flash-v2.5` |

When the user names a model, use it. Per-request character limits differ sharply between models, and
an over-limit script is rejected rather than truncated — `list_audio_models` carries each ceiling.

### Step 3: Pick the voice

Call `list_voices`, filtered by what the brief demands — `gender`, `accent`, `age`, `use_case`,
`language`, or free-text `search`. Each row carries a `preview_url`. 
**There is no default voice**: every request needs a `voice_id` chosen here, passed as `voice`. 
Display names are not accepted.

- A stated **gender, accent, or age is a hard filter** — apply it, don't trade it away on tone.
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