TEXT-TO-SPEECH

A changelog nobody reads is a story nobody heard. A coding agent reads your real git history and writes a two-speaker script, the ElevenLabs Text to Dialogue API turns it into a host-and-guest conversation, and ffmpeg stitches the episode. The complete one-hour build.

The Rime CLI streams natural-sounding text-to-speech straight from your terminal, so Claude Code, Codex, Devin, and OpenCode can end each step with a brief spoken summary plus a next-step question. Install, commands, flags, and the agent prompt pattern behind the demo.

The agent finishes, the summary scrolls past, and you will read it later. Build the fix: a coding agent that ends every run with a plain-language summary, piped into ElevenLabs text-to-speech and out as an MP3 you can listen to on the way to work. The complete one-hour build.

A fair, sourced comparison of the TTS APIs developers reach for in 2026: OpenAI, ElevenLabs, xAI Grok, and Cartesia. Quality vs latency vs price, streaming, voice cloning policies, and whether to route through an AI gateway or go direct.