# glados-voice-mcp

> Warm, shared GLaDOS text-to-speech server with an MCP interface for agents

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/glados-voice-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Bruno Meneguello
- homepage: https://github.com/bkmeneguello/glados-voice-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/bkmeneguello/glados-voice-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model-context-protocol, tts, text-to-speech, glados, voice, agents
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:glados-voice-mcp

### Description (declared)

# glados-voice-mcp

A warm, shared GLaDOS text-to-speech server for agents, exposed as an [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) tool.
It builds on [nimaid/GLaDOS-TTS](https://github.com/nimaid/GLaDOS-TTS), included unmodified as a git submodule.

> **Using an AI agent?** Point it at this repository and ask it to follow [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md); it contains every step to install, register and verify the server.

- **Fast:** about 100 ms to first audio once the models are loaded; text is split into sentences and the first one plays while the rest is still being synthesized.
- **Lazy and shared:** the MCP process is a thin proxy. The first `speak` starts one shared daemon (`127.0.0.1:18765`) that loads the models, serves every agent on one audio device, and exits after 10 minutes without requests or speech.
- **In character:** the persona is part of the tool description and `speak` rejects calls with `in_character=false`. The server cannot verify the style of the text itself.
- **One voice at a time:** if a message is loading or playing, `speak` returns `BUSY ... Retry in about N seconds` so agents never talk over each other. `speak` with empty text cuts speech for everyone.

## Install

No clone or project directory is needed: [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) installs the [`glados-voice-mcp`](https://pypi.org/project/glados-voice-mcp/) package from PyPI. Pick exactly one onnxruntime extra: `cpu` or `cuda` (NVIDIA, CUDA 13 wheels).

```bash
# 1. Build the environment and download the models once (about 125 MB, stored in your user data dir)
uvx --from "glados-voice-mcp[cpu]@latest" glados-voice download-models

# 2. Try it (plays audio)
uvx --from "glados-voice-mcp[cpu]@latest" glados-voice say "Hello, test subject."
```

Prefer a persistent command? `uv tool install "glados-voice-mcp[cpu]"` or `pipx install "glados-voice-mcp[cpu]"` puts `glados-voice-mcp` on your `PATH`. To develop, clone with `git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/bkmeneguello/glados-voi…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.speech-synthesis (1, declared)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/glados-voice-mcp/ (first seen 2026-11-03T03:26:27.875Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/glados-voice-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/glados-voice-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:glados-voice-mcp