Loading skill
Install any skill in seconds. Free to start, no credit card required.
Get Started Free →cursor/add-read-aloud
Use when the user runs /add-read-aloud or wants the app to speak text with Grok text-to-speech: read-aloud button on assistant replies, auto-speak, TTS, voice output, narration, IVR prompts, speech tags, voice_id. For a two-way voice agent use /add-voice. For speech-to-text use /add-dictation.
Passed 20 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 7 of 23 without it.
and 20 more in the full report
13 fixed7 passed either way3 still failing0 broke
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 13 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
When connecting to the streaming TTS WebSocket, audio generation delay is noticeable before the first chunk plays. Which query parameter optimizes initial chunk latency on the connection URL?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Include query parameter optimize_streaming_latency=1 on the WebSocket connection URL. | Missed | Passed |
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
Add Grok Text to Speech to an existing app: a speaker button on assistant replies, auto-speak, or narration of any text. Run on /add-read-aloud, typed Read aloud, or clear “speak this” / “TTS” intent. Cursor has no speaker; wire the app, not the IDE.
| Need | Path |
|---|---|
| Tap speaker, hear the finished reply. Narrate a page. Generate a file. | Batch POST https://api.x.ai/v1/tts (default) |
| Audio starts while the LLM is still streaming; barge-in; texts over 15,000 chars | Streaming wss://api.x.ai/v1/tts through a backend relay |
Batch is the default for a read-aloud button: one request, one MP3, cacheable, the key never leaves the server. Go streaming only when the UX needs audio before the text is complete. POST /v1/tts has no documented streaming flag; do not invent one.
XAI_API_KEY, server side only. The TTS docs document no ephemeral-token flow, and browsers cannot set WebSocket headers, so browser streaming goes through your backend relay.Map the app
/add-voice), microphone is dictation (/add-dictation). Put a ghost speaker button in the message action row; loading shows a spinner, playing shows a stop square. One utterance at a time: starting a new one stops the current one.-ml-[5px] for a 12–14 px icon in a 24 px button). Measure in the browser; getBoundingClientRect on the <p> and the <svg> should share a left edge.loading | playing, last error) in one shared store (useSyncExternalStore, a signal, whatever the app uses) so every button reflects it and errors can surface in the app's existing status area. A per-button let current is not enough./add-voice is installed, its AudioContext and PCM player can play streaming TTS; do not add a second audio graph.Prepare the text
**bold** → text, links → link text, inline code → the code, fenced blocks → [pause] Code block omitted., tables → one sentence per row or omit. Keep punctuation; it drives pacing.[laugh], <whisper>…) so the model’s text cannot steer delivery. Strip only the documented tag names (list in step 5), not every bracket: [1] citations and [note] must survive.test cases passed, vs 7 / 23 without
Published skills whose descriptions closely match this one, with their headline benchmark lift.
More skills from the same source and nearby in the registry, with their headline benchmark lift.