mcp-say

TTS (text-to-speech) MCP Server

What? 🤔

Adds Text-to-Speech to things like Claude Desktop and Cursor IDE.

It registers two tools:

• say
• elevenlabs

say

Uses the macOS say binary to speak the text

elevenlabs

Uses the elevenlabs text-to-speech API to speak the text

Getting Started

Install

go install github.com/blacktop/mcp-say@latest

❱ mcp-say --help

TTS (text-to-speech) MCP Server.

Provides a text-to-speech service using the MacOS 'say' command.

Designed to be used with the MCP protocol.

Usage:
  mcp-say [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help      help for mcp-say
  -v, --verbose   Enable verbose debug logging

Set Claude Desktop Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "say": {
      "command": "mcp-say",
      "env": {
        "ELEVENLABS_API_KEY": "********"
      }
    }
  }
}

Test

❱ cat test/say.json | go run main.go --verbose

2025/03/23 22:41:49 INFO Starting MCP server name="Say TTS Service" version=1.0.0
2025/03/23 22:41:49 DEBU Say tool called request="{Request:{Method:tools/call Params:{Meta:<nil>}} Params:{Name:say Arguments:map[text:Hello, world!] Meta:<nil>}}"
2025/03/23 22:41:49 DEBU Executing say command args="[--rate 200 Hello, world!]"
2025/03/23 22:41:49 INFO Speaking text text="Hello, world!"

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Speaking: Hello, world!"}]}}

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2025 blacktop