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Marak/say.js

TTS (text to speech) for node.js. send text from node.js to your speakers. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Marak/say.js · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5927
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1196
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1531 stars · 218 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Node.js library that provides text-to-speech by shelling out to platform-native TTS engines (macOS `say`, Windows SAPI, Linux Festival). It supports speaking text aloud, stopping playback, selecting voices and speed, and exporting audio to WAV files.

Use cases

  • make my node.js app speak text out loud
  • convert text to speech in a node script
  • play spoken notifications through the speakers
  • export text-to-speech audio to a wav file
  • use system voices for tts in javascript
  • add voice announcements to a cli tool

When to choose

  • you need simple TTS in Node.js using built-in OS voices without cloud APIs
  • you want offline text-to-speech on macOS, Windows, or Linux
  • you need to export spoken audio to a WAV file on macOS or Windows

When to avoid

  • you need high-quality neural voices or cloud TTS
  • you need WAV export on Linux
  • you need a browser or non-Node.js runtime
  • you need active development or guaranteed future maintenance

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

tts audio-processing speech-processing developer-tools windows cross-platform text-to-speech speech-synthesis system-voices wav-export audio nodejs macos linux

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Marak/say.jsmain32

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