Read-only check of the speech plugin's text-to-speech prerequisites: Python 3.12+, Node.js, espeak-ng, the hook-installed numpy and onnxruntime, and the Kokoro model files. Use when: 'narrate stopped with exit 2', 'what is speech missing', 'is text to speech ready', a session-start notice named a speech prerequisite, or before assuming narration will run. Reports each missing prerequisite with its remedy. Does not install.
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description: "Read-only check of the speech plugin's text-to-speech prerequisites: Python 3.12+, Node.js, espeak-ng, the hook-installed numpy and onnxruntime, and the Kokoro model files. Use when: 'narrate stopped with exit 2', 'what is speech missing', 'is text to speech ready', a session-start notice named a speech prerequisite, or before assuming narration will run. Reports each missing prerequisite with its remedy. Does not install."
user-invocable: true
disable-model-invocation: false
allowed-tools:
- "Bash(python3 *check.py*)"
- "Bash(python *check.py*)"
metadata:
workflow-stage: anytime
summary: Report each missing speech prerequisite. Never installs.
---
## Purpose
Run the read-only check, report it, and stop. This skill is the model-invocable check;
`/speech:setup` stays manual because its `apply` downloads files.
## Check
```bash
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check.py" --data-dir "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}"
```
Where `python3` is not on PATH, run the same command with `python`; the SessionStart hook accepts either.
Report the `PASS`/`FAIL` rows and the summary as printed. Each `FAIL` row carries its remedy.
Do not run the remedies.
## Next
/speech:setup apply install-model
Only when the `kokoro-model` row failed and the user asked to download it. A passing check has no
successor.
## Gotchas
- Never install espeak-ng, Python or Node.js, and never run the Python package repair command
yourself. The user runs them.
