speak

MCP tool from Agent Builder by strands-agents

Generate speech from text using macOS say command or Amazon Polly

How to use it

speak is exposed by the Agent Builder MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the speak tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Agent Builder

$pipx install strands-agents-builder

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