talkies skill for OpenClaw

What this skill does

Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible speech service. /v1/audio/transcriptions fronts 14 open ASR models (Whisper, Parakeet, Nemotron-3.5-ASR, Canary, Sherpa-ONNX, Vosk, plus wav2vec2 and ZIPA phoneme recognizers that emit IPA); /v1/audio/transcriptions/stream accepts live PCM over WebSocket. /v1/audio/speech fronts 3 TTS engines / 4 backends — Kokoro-82M (41 baked voices, PyTorch + ONNX runtimes), the CUDA-only Qwen3-TTS family (voice cloning, preset speakers, voice design), and the CUDA-only Chatterbox Turbo (English, 19 inline emotion tags, transcript-free cloning). Stereo diarization, URL fetching, six ASR/file-staging MCP tools, bearer auth.

The talkies skill is part of the Messaging & Channels category — messaging and channel skills that connect your agent to chat platforms. You can install it on its own or alongside other messaging & channels skills from the OpenClaw catalog.

How to install the talkies skill

The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:

1. Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
2. Open the in-app Skills panel.
3. Search for talkies and click Install.
4. The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.

Install from the command line

If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add the talkies skill with a single command:

openclaw skills add talkies

This pulls talkies from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/talkies/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.

How to use the talkies skill

Once installed, the talkies skill activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.

Putting audio in front of an audience

talkies works with audio. Getting from there to something postable is a separate job: ViralMint — an open-source video pipeline — pairs audio with footage or generated visuals, burns synced captions, and exports a finished short.

It runs as an MCP server, so an OpenClaw agent can drive it from the same chat you already use: ask for a short, and the render comes back finished. See how to connect a video pipeline to your agent.

Manual install (advanced)

If you prefer manual installation:

1. Click the Download skill .zip button above to grab talkies-1.3.18.zip directly from our S3 mirror.
2. Unzip into ~/.openclaw/skills/talkies/ (create the directory if it does not exist).
3. Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.

Frequently asked questions

How do I install talkies?

Install talkies in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for talkies, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add talkies. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/talkies/.

Is the talkies skill free?

Yes. It is free to download and run through ClawHub, with no account or payment required. Each skill is published by its own author under its own licence — see its ClawHub page for the licence and source.

What does talkies do?

Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible speech service. /v1/audio/transcriptions fronts 14 open ASR models (Whisper, Parakeet, Nemotron-3.5-ASR, Canary, Sherpa-ONNX, Vosk, plus wav2vec2 and ZIPA phoneme recognizers that emit IPA); /v1/audio/transcriptions/stream accepts live PCM over WebSocket.

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