# stepfun-tts

Generates Chinese and Japanese speech with StepFun Contextual TTS. Controls emotion and prosody using natural-language instructions and inline brackets.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 639 installs · ★ 1493
- Author: daymade
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-audio/stepfun-tts/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/stepfun-tts

## What it does

The skill wraps StepFun's Contextual TTS endpoints, running `stepaudio-2.5-tts` by default and supporting `stepaudio-3-tts` for whispering or heavy inline prosody. Instead of fixed emotion labels from `step-tts-2`, it guides speech through natural-language prompts in the `instruction` field and bracketed directives `()` inside the text. Version 3 expands this instruction limit to 500 characters, up from 200 in 2.5.

Under the hood, it provides `scripts/tts_generate.py` for single runs and batch JSONL processing, alongside `scripts/ab_compare.sh` for output verification. Single inputs are strictly limited to 1000 characters. Longer transcripts require semantic splitting before submission.

Authentication demands a StepFun API key in `$STEPFUN_API_KEY` or `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/config.json`. Make sure to use a Normal key because Plan keys silently fail on speech endpoints. Do not use `stepaudio-3-tts` with cloned voice IDs; the v3 model silently falls back to the default female voice because cloning remains tethered to the 2.5 pipeline.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill stepfun-tts -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill stepfun-tts -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill stepfun-tts -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install daymade/claude-code-skills stepfun-tts
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill stepfun-tts -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills --path daymade-audio/stepfun-tts
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill stepfun-tts -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/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-audio/stepfun-tts/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- synthesize Chinese or Japanese dialogue with natural emotional pacing
- insert inline prosody directives and pauses using parentheses
- batch-process voice lines from JSONL files for games or apps
- migrate legacy pipelines from step-tts-2 and voice_label parameters

## Example prompts
- Run python3 scripts/tts_generate.py --text "你好" --instruction "温暖的希望感" --out /tmp/hello.mp3
- Synthesize a whisper line using stepaudio-3-tts with inline pauses in parentheses
- Batch generate voice assets from lines.jsonl using scripts/tts_generate.py --batch

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: stepfun-tts
disable-model-invocation: true
description: >-
  Generates Chinese/Japanese speech with StepFun's Contextual TTS — default stepaudio-2.5-tts,
  stepaudio-3-tts for whisper/inline-() prosody. Replaces step-tts-2's voice_label with
  natural-language instruction. Use for emotional/prosody-controlled synthesis, batch voice lines,
  migrating from step-tts-2, or cloned voices (2.5/step-tts-2, not v3). Triggers on 阶跃 TTS, 语音合成,
  配音. Not for transcription (use stepfun-asr).
---

# StepFun Contextual TTS (default stepaudio-2.5-tts)

Generate Chinese / Japanese speech with StepFun's Contextual TTS — emotion and prosody go through natural-language description, not fixed labels. **Default model is `stepaudio-2.5-tts`** (what the bundled script uses): in a 2026-09-16 blind A/B on our own cases, 2.5 won the neutral / jiao / lively-girl pairs 3:2. **Pick `stepaudio-3-tts` when the line is whisper or heavy inline-`()` prosody** — v3 won exactly those two pairs; v3 also raises the `instruction` cap to 500 chars (2.5 is 200). ⚠️ **Never synthesize cloned voices with v3** — v3 speech 接受复刻音色 ID 不报错但静默回退默认女声——根因 = 阶跃复刻链路整体停在 2.5 家族（复刻创建 API 只收 2.5/step-tts-2/step-tts-mini，v3 不在列；v3 合成侧复刻未发布）。两代创建的克隆在 v3 上全丢：step-tts-2 克隆 SIM 0.272、2.5 创建的新克隆 SIM 0.195（锚 0.773），2.5 同 ID 0.743/0.678。

> Companion: for transcription with `stepaudio-3-asr-max` (the sibling model), use the `stepfun-asr` skill — they share an API key but live on different endpoints with different body shapes.

**Why this skill exists** — two non-obvious pitfalls that cost hours if you don't know them:

1. `stepaudio-3-tts` **rejects** `voice_label` (the step-tts-2 way) — verified on v3 2026-09-16: HTTP 400 `voice_label is not supported for this model`. Emotion/prosody goes through `instruction` (natural-language description, ≤500 chars on v3 — 200 was the 2.5 limit) and inline `()` parentheses inside the text itself.
2. Censorship behavior is model-version-specific — the 2.5-era trigger list (死 / 消失 / sensitive political terms → `censorship_block`) did **not** fire on v3 in a 2026-09-16 single-sample probe; treat censorship as present but re-verify per trigger before building rewrite maps. The 2.5-era options are in `references/migration_from_v2.md`.

## Config and auth
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