# Marak/say.js

TTS (text to speech) for node.js. send text from node.js to your speakers.

Repository: https://github.com/Marak/say.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sayjs
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-05-25T07:30:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5927, "days_push": 1196, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1531, forks 218 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.306517+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: tts, audio-processing
- domain: speech-processing, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: text-to-speech, speech-synthesis, system-voices, wav-export, audio, nodejs, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- Marak/say.js (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.306517+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:21.547850+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Marak/say.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.306517+00:00, sha 3bbb55181805)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.