# Supertone TTS MCP Server

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

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## Connect

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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/53) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/52) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/51) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/50) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/48) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/37) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/35) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/33) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/31) · 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](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/24) · 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
- In: New `async create_cloned_voice(name, audio_bytes, file_name, content_type, description?) -> dict` method on `SupertoneClient` wrapping `custom_voices.create_cloned_voice_async`; new `async clone_voice(name, audio_path, description?) -> str` tool handler that reads the file, validates extension/size, builds the SDK `F

[Read the thread](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/21) · 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:**
- New `async predict_duration(...)` method on `SupertoneClient` wrapping `text_to_speech.predict_duration_async`
- New `async predict_duration(...)` tool handler in `tools.py`
- Vali

[Read the thread](https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertone-mcp/issues/19) · 2026-05-27 · closed · 0 comments

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