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Supertone TTS MCP Server

Composable Supertone TTS toolkit: synthesis, voice search/preview/clone, usage — 31 languages

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Published as supertone-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

19 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

merge_audio_files: crossfade_ms intermittently truncates short clips (acrossfade bug)

Symptom

crossfade_ms is accurate on normal-length clips but intermittently truncates output on short / similar-length clips. E.g. 1.36s + 1.36s, cf=500 expected ~2.22s but produces ~0.86s (≈ one clip − crossfade) on a fraction of runs. Non-deterministic.

Root cause (confirmed)

Intrinsic ffmpeg acrossfade bug on short inputs — reproduces even on raw inputs with no normalization/aresample. acrossfade's EOF/buffering occasionally drops one stream entirely. Results vary run-to-run (0.

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 0 comments

merge_audio_files: WAV duration mis-reported (pipe:1 corrupts RIFF size header)

Symptom

merge_audio_files with WAV output reports a wildly wrong Duration (e.g. 24347.9 seconds for a real ~4.96s file). MP3 output is correct.

Root cause (confirmed)

audio_ops.merge_audio renders to pipe:1 (non-seekable). ffmpeg cannot rewind to patch the RIFF / data chunk size fields when writing WAV to a pipe, so it writes the placeholder 0xFFFFFFFF (4294967295).

tools.calculate_duration (mutagen) then computes 4294967295 / (44100*2*2) ≈ 24347.887s — exactly the repo

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 0 comments

[ISSUE-031] Harden _pipe_format to reject unknown output formats (L1)

Goal

Make audio_ops._pipe_format fail loudly on an unknown output format instead of silently mapping anything non-wav to mp3.

Background (review finding L1, from PR #49)

_pipe_format returns "wav" if output_format == "wav" else "mp3". Today output_format is enum-validated upstream (SUPPORTED_FORMATS), so there's no current bug. But MERGE_SUPPORTED_EXTENSIONS exists specifically "so the merge surface can diverge later" — if a third format is added there, _pipe_format woul

Read the thread · 2026-06-16 · open · 0 comments

[ISSUE-030] Real-ffmpeg integration test tier for merge_audio_files (RL-007)

Goal

Add an opt-in (CI-skipped) real-ffmpeg integration test tier for merge_audio_files, so the filter-graph / parameter-compatibility contract is pinned by a test that actually runs the bundled ffmpeg — not just the mocked unit tests.

Background (review lesson RL-007, from PR #49)

tests/test_audio_ops.py mocks asyncio.create_subprocess_exec, so it validates the command string but never ffmpeg's actual behavior. The C1/C2 filter-graph bug in PR #49 (concat/aevalsrc parameter mis

Read the thread · 2026-06-16 · open · 0 comments

[ISSUE-029] Add merge_audio_files tool (ffmpeg-backed audio concatenation)

Goal

Add a merge_audio_files MCP tool backed by a bundled ffmpeg binary that concatenates two or more audio files produced by text_to_speech into a single deliverable, supporting head-to-tail concat, silence-gap insertion, and crossfade blending.

Spec: docs/specs/SPEC-029.md (Option A — bundle ffmpeg via imageio-ffmpeg).

Scope

In: new src/supertone_mcp/audio_ops.py (async ffmpeg subprocess); merge_audio_files handler in tools.py; registration in server.py; `imageio-ffmpeg

Read the thread · 2026-06-16 · closed · 0 comments

Most recent

[ISSUE-024] Relax 300-char hard limit → delegate to SDK auto-chunk

Goal

text_to_speech and predict_duration no longer hard-reject text over 300 characters; long text is delegated to the SDK's internal auto-chunking, while empty-text validation is retained.

Scope

In: Remove the validate_text_max_length hard rejection from predict_duration (confirm text_to_speech does not call it); keep validate_text (non-empty); update text_to_speech and predict_duration tool descriptions/docstrings to note long text is auto-chunked and credit/latency

Read the thread · 2026-06-05 · closed · 0 comments

[ISSUE-023] Add streaming param + route synthesize vs stream + sona_speech_1-only validation

Closes-tracking for ISSUE-023.

Goal

text_to_speech accepts a per-call streaming parameter (default false) that routes to one-shot client.synthesize by default and to client.synthesize_stream when true, with fail-fast validation rejecting streaming=true for any model other than sona_speech_1 before any SDK call.

Scope

In: add streaming: bool = False to tools.text_to_speech + server.py registration/docstring; wire the one-shot client.synthesize() path through existing outpu

Read the thread · 2026-06-05 · closed · 0 comments

[ISSUE-022] Remove behavior env vars → per-call output_mode/autoplay (BREAKING)

Goal

text_to_speech decides output mode and autoplay per call via new output_mode and autoplay parameters; the env vars SUPERTONE_MCP_OUTPUT_MODE and SUPERTONE_MCP_AUTOPLAY are no longer read; autoplay defaults to false. BREAKING.

Scope

In: Add output_mode (str, default files) and autoplay (bool, default false) params to tools.text_to_speech and server.py registration + docstrings; replace resolve_output_mode() env read with validate_output_mode(mode) against

Read the thread · 2026-06-05 · closed · 0 comments

[ISSUE-021] SDK 0.2.3 sync: model enum + default + version pin

Goal

constants.SUPPORTED_MODELS matches the SDK 0.2.3 model enum (all 7 models), the default model is sona_speech_2_flash, and the supertone dependency is pinned to >=0.2.3,<0.3.

Scope

In: Add sona_speech_3t and supertonic_api_3 to SUPPORTED_MODELS and the Model Literal in constants.py; change DEFAULT_MODEL from sona_speech_1 to sona_speech_2_flash; pin supertone>=0.2.3,<0.3 in pyproject.toml; update validate_model tests; correct the stale text_to_speech docstring in server.py. Out: strea

Read the thread · 2026-06-05 · closed · 0 comments

ISSUE-020: Custom voice CRUD tools (search/edit/delete)

Tracking issue for ISSUE-020 (FR-018, FR-019, US-011). See issues.md ISSUE-020 for full spec. Implemented in PR #23.

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 0 comments

[ISSUE-019] Add clone_voice tool (single file ≤3MB)

Goal

clone_voice(name, audio_path, description?) creates a custom (cloned) voice from a local audio file (WAV or MP3, ≤3MB) and returns the new custom voice ID.

Scope

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 0 comments

[ISSUE-018] Add predict_duration tool (client + handler)

Closes: tracked in issues.md ISSUE-018

Goal

predict_duration(text, voice_id?, language?, model?, output_format?, speed?, pitch_shift?, style?) calls the Supertone duration prediction API and returns the predicted audio length in seconds, which is proportional to credit consumption.

Scope (In/Out)

In:

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 0 comments

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