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    #!/usr/bin/env python3
    """
    Text-to-Speech Tool Module
    
    Built-in TTS providers:
    - Edge TTS (default, free, no API key): Microsoft Edge neural voices
    - ElevenLabs (premium): High-quality voices, needs ELEVENLABS_API_KEY
    - OpenAI TTS: Good quality, needs OPENAI_API_KEY
    - MiniMax TTS: High-quality with voice cloning, needs MINIMAX_API_KEY
    - Mistral (Voxtral TTS): Multilingual, native Opus, needs MISTRAL_API_KEY
    - Google Gemini TTS: Controllable, 30 prebuilt voices, needs GEMINI_API_KEY
    - xAI TTS: Grok voices, uses xAI Grok OAuth credentials or XAI_API_KEY
    - NeuTTS (local, free, no API key): On-device TTS via neutts
    - KittenTTS (local, free, no API key): On-device 25MB model
    - Piper (local, free, no API key): OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl neural VITS, 44 languages
    
    Custom command providers:
    - Users can declare any number of named providers with ``type: command``
      under ``tts.providers.<name>`` in ``~/.hermes/config.yaml``. Hermes
      writes the input text to a temp file and runs the configured shell
      command, which must produce the audio file at the expected path.
      See the Local Command section of ``website/docs/user-guide/features/tts.md``.
    
    Output formats:
    - Opus (.ogg) for Telegram voice bubbles (requires ffmpeg for Edge TTS)
    - MP3 (.mp3) for everything else (CLI, Discord, WhatsApp)
    
    Configuration is loaded from ~/.hermes/config.yaml under the 'tts:' key.
    The user chooses the provider and voice; the model just sends text.
    
    Usage:
        from tools.tts_tool import text_to_speech_tool, check_tts_requirements
    
        result = text_to_speech_tool(text="Hello world")
    """
    
    import asyncio
    import base64
    import datetime
    import json
    import logging
    import os
    import queue
    import re
    import shlex
    import shutil
    import subprocess
    import tempfile
    import threading
    import uuid
    from pathlib import Path
    from typing import Callable, Dict, Any, Optional
    from urllib.parse import urljoin
    
    from hermes_constants import display_hermes_home
    
    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
    def get_env_value(name, default=None):
        """Read env values through the live config module.
    
        Tests may monkeypatch and later restore ``hermes_cli.config.get_env_value``
        before this module is imported. Resolve the helper at call time so TTS does
        not keep a stale imported function for the rest of the test process.
        """
        try:
            from hermes_cli.config import get_env_value as _get_env_value
        except ImportError:
            return os.getenv(name, default)
        value = _get_env_value(name)
        return default if value is None else value
    from tools.managed_tool_gateway import resolve_managed_tool_gateway
    from tools.tool_backend_helpers import (
        managed_nous_tools_enabled,
        nous_tool_gateway_unavailable_message,
        prefers_gateway,
        resolve_openai_audio_api_key,
    )
    from tools.xai_http import hermes_xai_user_agent
    
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Lazy imports -- providers are imported only when actually used to avoid
    # crashing in headless environments (SSH, Docker, WSL, no PortAudio).
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    def _import_edge_tts():
        """Lazy import edge_tts. Returns the module or raises ImportError."""
        try:
            from tools.lazy_deps import ensure as _lazy_ensure
            _lazy_ensure("tts.edge", prompt=False)
        except ImportError:
            pass
        except Exception as e:
            raise ImportError(str(e))
        import edge_tts
        return edge_tts
    
    def _import_elevenlabs():
        """Lazy import ElevenLabs client. Returns the class or raises ImportError.
    
        Calls :func:`tools.lazy_deps.ensure` first so the SDK gets installed on
        demand if the user picked ElevenLabs as their TTS provider but never ran
        the post-setup hook (e.g. enabled it by editing config.yaml directly).
        Raises ``ImportError`` on lazy-install failure so existing callers'
        error-handling paths keep working.
        """
        try:
            from tools.lazy_deps import FeatureUnavailable, ensure
            ensure("tts.elevenlabs", prompt=False)
        except ImportError:
            # lazy_deps module itself missing — fall through to the raw import
            # so older code paths still get a clean ImportError.
            pass
        except Exception as e:  # FeatureUnavailable or any unexpected error
            raise ImportError(str(e))
        from elevenlabs.client import ElevenLabs
        return ElevenLabs
    
    def _import_openai_client():
        """Lazy import OpenAI client. Returns the class or raises ImportError."""
        from openai import OpenAI as OpenAIClient
        return OpenAIClient
    
    def _import_mistral_client():
        """Lazy import Mistral client. Returns the class or raises ImportError.
    
        Calls :func:`tools.lazy_deps.ensure` first so the ``mistralai`` SDK gets
        installed on demand if the user picked Mistral as their STT/TTS provider
        but never ran the post-setup hook (e.g. enabled it by editing config.yaml
        directly). Mirrors the ElevenLabs lazy-import path.
        """
        try:
            from tools.lazy_deps import ensure
            ensure("tts.mistral", prompt=False)
        except ImportError:
            pass
        except Exception as e:  # FeatureUnavailable or any unexpected error
            raise ImportError(str(e))
        from mistralai.client import Mistral
        return Mistral
    
    def _import_sounddevice():
        """Lazy import sounddevice. Returns the module or raises ImportError/OSError."""
        import sounddevice as sd
        return sd
    
    
    def _import_kittentts():
        """Lazy import KittenTTS. Returns the class or raises ImportError."""
        from kittentts import KittenTTS
        return KittenTTS
    
    
    def _import_piper():
        """Lazy import Piper. Returns the PiperVoice class or raises ImportError.
    
        Piper is an optional, fully-local neural TTS engine (Home Assistant /
        Open Home Foundation). ``pip install piper-tts`` provides cross-platform
        wheels (Linux / macOS / Windows, x86_64 + ARM64) with embedded espeak-ng.
        Voice models (.onnx + .onnx.json) are downloaded on first use.
        """
        from piper import PiperVoice
        return PiperVoice
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Defaults
    # ===========================================================================
    DEFAULT_PROVIDER = "edge"
    DEFAULT_EDGE_VOICE = "en-US-AriaNeural"
    DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID = "pNInz6obpgDQGcFmaJgB"  # Adam
    DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_MODEL_ID = "eleven_multilingual_v2"
    DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_STREAMING_MODEL_ID = "eleven_flash_v2_5"
    DEFAULT_OPENAI_MODEL = "gpt-4o-mini-tts"
    DEFAULT_KITTENTTS_MODEL = "KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.8-int8"  # 25MB
    DEFAULT_KITTENTTS_VOICE = "Jasper"
    DEFAULT_PIPER_VOICE = "en_US-lessac-medium"  # balanced size/quality
    DEFAULT_OPENAI_VOICE = "alloy"
    DEFAULT_OPENAI_BASE_URL = "https://api.openai.com/v1"
    DEFAULT_MINIMAX_MODEL = "speech-02-hd"
    DEFAULT_MINIMAX_VOICE_ID = "English_expressive_narrator"
    DEFAULT_MINIMAX_BASE_URL = "https://api.minimax.io/v1/t2a_v2"
    DEFAULT_MISTRAL_TTS_MODEL = "voxtral-mini-tts-2603"
    DEFAULT_MISTRAL_TTS_VOICE_ID = "c69964a6-ab8b-4f8a-9465-ec0925096ec8"  # Paul - Neutral
    DEFAULT_XAI_VOICE_ID = "eve"
    DEFAULT_XAI_LANGUAGE = "en"
    DEFAULT_XAI_SAMPLE_RATE = 24000
    DEFAULT_XAI_BIT_RATE = 128000
    DEFAULT_XAI_AUTO_SPEECH_TAGS = False
    DEFAULT_XAI_BASE_URL = "https://api.x.ai/v1"
    DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_MODEL = "gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts"
    DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_VOICE = "Kore"
    DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_BASE_URL = "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta"
    DEFAULT_GEMINI_AUDIO_TAGS = False
    GEMINI_AUDIO_TAG_REWRITE_TASK = "tts_audio_tags"
    # PCM output specs for Gemini TTS (fixed by the API)
    GEMINI_TTS_SAMPLE_RATE = 24000
    GEMINI_TTS_CHANNELS = 1
    GEMINI_TTS_SAMPLE_WIDTH = 2  # 16-bit PCM (L16)
    
    def _get_default_output_dir() -> str:
        from hermes_constants import get_hermes_dir
        return str(get_hermes_dir("cache/audio", "audio_cache"))
    
    DEFAULT_OUTPUT_DIR = _get_default_output_dir()
    
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Per-provider input-character limits (from official provider docs).
    # A single global cap was wrong: OpenAI is 4096, xAI is 15k, MiniMax is 10k,
    # ElevenLabs is model-dependent (5k / 10k / 30k / 40k), Gemini has a 32k-token
    # context window.  Users can override any of these via
    # ``tts.<provider>.max_text_length`` in config.yaml.
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    PROVIDER_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH: Dict[str, int] = {
        "edge": 5000,         # edge-tts practical sync limit
        "openai": 4096,       # https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech
        "xai": 15000,         # https://docs.x.ai/developers/model-capabilities/audio/text-to-speech
        "minimax": 10000,     # https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/speech-t2a-http (sync)
        "mistral": 4000,      # conservative; no published per-request cap
        "gemini": 32000,      # Gemini TTS has a 32k-token context window; char cap is conservative
        "elevenlabs": 10000,  # fallback when model-aware lookup can't resolve (multilingual_v2)
        "neutts": 2000,       # local model, quality falls off on long text
        "kittentts": 2000,    # local 25MB model
        "piper": 5000,        # local VITS model, phoneme-based; practical cap
    }
    
    # ElevenLabs caps vary by model_id. https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/models
    ELEVENLABS_MODEL_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH: Dict[str, int] = {
        "eleven_v3": 5000,
        "eleven_ttv_v3": 5000,
        "eleven_multilingual_v2": 10000,
        "eleven_multilingual_v1": 10000,
        "eleven_english_sts_v2": 10000,
        "eleven_english_sts_v1": 10000,
        "eleven_flash_v2": 30000,
        "eleven_flash_v2_5": 40000,
    }
    
    
    def _config_bool(value: Any, default: bool = False) -> bool:
        """Coerce common YAML/env bool spellings without treating random strings as true."""
        if isinstance(value, bool):
            return value
        if value is None:
            return default
        if isinstance(value, (int, float)):
            return bool(value)
        if isinstance(value, str):
            normalized = value.strip().lower()
            if normalized in {"1", "true", "yes", "on", "enabled"}:
                return True
            if normalized in {"0", "false", "no", "off", "disabled"}:
                return False
        return default
    
    # Final fallback when provider isn't recognised at all.
    FALLBACK_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH = 4000
    
    # Back-compat alias. Prefer ``_resolve_max_text_length()`` for new code.
    MAX_TEXT_LENGTH = FALLBACK_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH
    
    
    def _resolve_max_text_length(
        provider: Optional[str],
        tts_config: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
    ) -> int:
        """Return the input-character cap for *provider*.
    
        Resolution order:
          1. ``tts.<provider>.max_text_length`` (user override in config.yaml)
          2. ``tts.providers.<provider>.max_text_length`` for user-declared
             command providers
          3. ElevenLabs model-aware table (keyed on configured ``model_id``)
          4. ``PROVIDER_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH`` default
          5. ``DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH`` when the provider is a
             command-type user provider without an explicit cap
          6. ``FALLBACK_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH`` (4000)
    
        Non-positive or non-integer overrides fall through to the default so a
        broken config can't accidentally disable truncation entirely.
        """
        if not provider:
            return FALLBACK_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH
        key = provider.lower().strip()
        cfg = tts_config or {}
    
        # Built-in-style override at tts.<provider>.max_text_length wins first,
        # matching historical behavior.
        prov_cfg = cfg.get(key) if isinstance(cfg.get(key), dict) else {}
        override = prov_cfg.get("max_text_length") if prov_cfg else None
        if isinstance(override, bool):
            override = None
        if isinstance(override, int) and override > 0:
            return override
    
        if key == "elevenlabs":
            model_id = (prov_cfg or {}).get("model_id") or DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_MODEL_ID
            mapped = ELEVENLABS_MODEL_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH.get(str(model_id).strip())
            if mapped:
                return mapped
    
        if key in PROVIDER_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH:
            return PROVIDER_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH[key]
    
        # User-declared command provider (under tts.providers.<name>)
        if key not in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS:
            named = _get_named_provider_config(cfg, key)
            if _is_command_provider_config(named):
                named_override = named.get("max_text_length")
                if isinstance(named_override, bool):
                    named_override = None
                if isinstance(named_override, int) and named_override > 0:
                    return named_override
                return DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH
    
        return FALLBACK_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Config loader -- reads tts: section from ~/.hermes/config.yaml
    # ===========================================================================
    def _load_tts_config() -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """
        Load TTS configuration from ~/.hermes/config.yaml.
    
        Returns a dict with provider settings. Falls back to defaults
        for any missing fields.
        """
        try:
            from hermes_cli.config import load_config
            config = load_config()
            return config.get("tts", {})
        except ImportError:
            logger.debug("hermes_cli.config not available, using default TTS config")
            return {}
        except Exception as e:
            logger.warning("Failed to load TTS config: %s", e, exc_info=True)
            return {}
    
    
    def _get_provider(tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """Get the configured TTS provider name."""
        return (tts_config.get("provider") or DEFAULT_PROVIDER).lower().strip()
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Custom command providers (type: command under tts.providers.<name>)
    # ===========================================================================
    #
    # Users can declare any number of command-type providers alongside the
    # built-ins so they can plug any local CLI (Piper, VoxCPM, Kokoro CLIs,
    # custom voice-cloning scripts, etc.) into Hermes without any Python code
    # changes. The config shape is::
    #
    #     tts:
    #       provider: piper-en
    #       providers:
    #         piper-en:
    #           type: command
    #           command: "piper -m ~/model.onnx -f {output_path} < {input_path}"
    #           output_format: wav
    #
    # Hermes writes the input text to a temp UTF-8 file, runs the command with
    # placeholder substitution, and reads the audio file the command wrote to
    # ``{output_path}``. Supported placeholders: ``{input_path}``,
    # ``{text_path}`` (alias for input_path), ``{output_path}``, ``{format}``,
    # ``{voice}``, ``{model}``, ``{speed}``. Use ``{{`` / ``}}`` for literal braces.
    #
    # Built-in provider names always win over an entry with the same name under
    # ``tts.providers``, so user config can't silently shadow ``edge`` etc.
    #
    # Placeholder values are shell-quoted for their surrounding context
    # (bare / single / double quote), so paths with spaces work transparently.
    
    # Built-in provider names. Any ``tts.provider`` value NOT in this set is
    # interpreted as a reference to ``tts.providers.<name>``.
    BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS = frozenset({
        "edge",
        "elevenlabs",
        "openai",
        "minimax",
        "xai",
        "mistral",
        "gemini",
        "neutts",
        "kittentts",
        "piper",
    })
    
    DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 120
    DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMAT = "mp3"
    COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMATS = frozenset({"mp3", "wav", "ogg", "flac"})
    DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH = 5000
    
    
    def _get_provider_section(tts_config: Dict[str, Any], name: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """Return a provider config block if it's a dict, else an empty dict."""
        if not isinstance(tts_config, dict):
            return {}
        section = tts_config.get(name)
        return section if isinstance(section, dict) else {}
    
    
    def _get_named_provider_config(
        tts_config: Dict[str, Any],
        name: str,
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """Return the config dict for a user-declared provider.
    
        Looks up ``tts.providers.<name>`` first (the canonical location), and
        falls back to ``tts.<name>`` so users who followed the built-in layout
        still work. Returns an empty dict when the provider is not declared.
        """
        providers = _get_provider_section(tts_config, "providers")
        section = providers.get(name) if isinstance(providers, dict) else None
        if isinstance(section, dict):
            return section
        # Back-compat: allow ``tts.<name>`` for user-declared providers too,
        # but only when the name is not a built-in (so a user's ``tts.openai``
        # block still means the OpenAI provider, not a custom command).
        if name.lower() not in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS:
            legacy = _get_provider_section(tts_config, name)
            if legacy:
                return legacy
        return {}
    
    
    def _is_command_provider_config(config: Dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
        """Return True when *config* declares a command-type provider."""
        if not isinstance(config, dict):
            return False
        ptype = str(config.get("type") or "").strip().lower()
        if ptype and ptype != "command":
            return False
        command = config.get("command")
        return isinstance(command, str) and bool(command.strip())
    
    
    def _resolve_command_provider_config(
        provider: str,
        tts_config: Dict[str, Any],
    ) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Return the provider config if *provider* resolves to a command type.
    
        Built-in provider names are rejected (they have native handlers).
        Returns None when the name is a built-in, unknown, or not a command
        type.
        """
        if not provider:
            return None
        key = provider.lower().strip()
        if key in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS:
            return None
        config = _get_named_provider_config(tts_config, key)
        if _is_command_provider_config(config):
            return config
        return None
    
    
    def _dispatch_to_plugin_provider(
        text: str,
        output_path: str,
        provider: str,
        tts_config: Dict[str, Any],
    ) -> Optional[str]:
        """Route the call to a plugin-registered TTS provider, or return None.
    
        Returns the path to the written audio file on dispatch, or ``None``
        to fall through to the next resolution layer (built-in dispatch or
        Edge TTS default).
    
        Resolution invariants enforced here (matches issue #30398):
    
        1. Built-in provider names short-circuit — never reach the plugin
           registry. The caller is responsible for the elif chain that
           handles ``edge``/``openai``/etc.; this function explicitly
           rejects those names defensively.
        2. Command-type providers declared under
           ``tts.providers.<name>: type: command`` (PR #17843) win over a
           plugin with the same name. The caller passes us only when its
           own command-provider check returned None — we re-verify here so
           a refactor of the caller can't silently break the invariant.
        3. Plugin dispatch fires only when ``provider`` matches a registered
           :class:`TTSProvider` whose ``name`` equals the configured value.
           Unknown names return None (caller falls through to Edge default).
    
        Plugin exceptions are caught and re-raised — the outer
        ``text_to_speech_tool`` try/except converts them to the standard
        error envelope, matching how command-provider failures surface.
        """
        if not provider:
            return None
        key = provider.lower().strip()
        if key in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS:
            return None
        # Defense in depth: command-provider check should already have
        # short-circuited the caller. If a same-name command config exists,
        # bail so the command path wins.
        if _is_command_provider_config(_get_named_provider_config(tts_config, key)):
            return None
        try:
            from agent.tts_registry import get_provider
            from hermes_cli.plugins import _ensure_plugins_discovered
    
            _ensure_plugins_discovered()
            plugin_provider = get_provider(key)
            if plugin_provider is None:
                # Long-lived sessions may have discovered plugins before the
                # bundled backend was patched in or before config changed.
                # Retry once with a forced refresh before surfacing fall-
                # through. Mirrors the image_gen / browser dispatcher
                # recovery pattern.
                _ensure_plugins_discovered(force=True)
                plugin_provider = get_provider(key)
        except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — discovery failure is non-fatal
            logger.debug("tts plugin dispatch skipped (discovery failed): %s", exc)
            return None
        if plugin_provider is None:
            return None
    
        # Resolve voice / model / format from tts_config — providers should
        # treat all of these as optional and fall back to their own defaults
        # when None is passed (matches the ABC contract documented on
        # ``TTSProvider.synthesize``).
        voice = tts_config.get("voice") if isinstance(tts_config, dict) else None
        model = tts_config.get("model") if isinstance(tts_config, dict) else None
        speed = tts_config.get("speed") if isinstance(tts_config, dict) else None
        fmt = (
            tts_config.get("output_format", DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMAT)
            if isinstance(tts_config, dict)
            else DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMAT
        )
    
        logger.info(
            "Generating speech with plugin TTS provider '%s'...", key,
        )
        written = plugin_provider.synthesize(
            text,
            output_path,
            voice=voice if isinstance(voice, str) and voice else None,
            model=model if isinstance(model, str) and model else None,
            speed=float(speed) if isinstance(speed, (int, float)) else None,
            format=str(fmt).lower() if fmt else "mp3",
        )
        # Provider contract: returns the (possibly rewritten) output path.
        # Defensive against a provider returning None or a non-string —
        # fall back to the caller's expected output_path.
        return written if isinstance(written, str) and written else output_path
    
    
    def _plugin_provider_is_voice_compatible(provider: str) -> bool:
        """Return True when the registered plugin provider opts into voice
        bubble delivery via its ``voice_compatible`` property.
    
        Defensive: any registry or property access failure means False
        (matches the safe default for the command-provider path).
        """
        if not provider:
            return False
        key = provider.lower().strip()
        if key in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS:
            return False
        try:
            from agent.tts_registry import get_provider
    
            plugin_provider = get_provider(key)
            if plugin_provider is None:
                return False
            return bool(plugin_provider.voice_compatible)
        except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001
            logger.debug(
                "tts plugin voice_compatible check failed for '%s': %s", key, exc,
            )
            return False
    
    
    def _iter_command_providers(tts_config: Dict[str, Any]):
        """Yield (name, config) pairs for every declared command-type provider."""
        if not isinstance(tts_config, dict):
            return
        providers = _get_provider_section(tts_config, "providers")
        for name, cfg in (providers or {}).items():
            if isinstance(name, str) and name.lower() not in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS:
                if _is_command_provider_config(cfg):
                    yield name, cfg
    
    
    def _get_command_tts_timeout(config: Dict[str, Any]) -> float:
        """Return timeout in seconds, falling back when invalid."""
        raw = config.get("timeout", config.get("timeout_seconds", DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_TIMEOUT_SECONDS))
        try:
            value = float(raw)
        except (TypeError, ValueError):
            return float(DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)
        if value <= 0:
            return float(DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)
        return value
    
    
    def _get_command_tts_output_format(
        config: Dict[str, Any],
        output_path: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> str:
        """Return the validated output format (mp3/wav/ogg/flac)."""
        if output_path:
            suffix = Path(output_path).suffix.lower().strip().lstrip(".")
            if suffix in COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMATS:
                return suffix
        raw = (
            config.get("format")
            or config.get("output_format")
            or DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMAT
        )
        fmt = str(raw).lower().strip().lstrip(".")
        return fmt if fmt in COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMATS else DEFAULT_COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMAT
    
    
    def _is_command_tts_voice_compatible(config: Dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
        """Return True only when the user explicitly opted in to voice delivery."""
        value = config.get("voice_compatible", False)
        if isinstance(value, str):
            return value.strip().lower() in {"1", "true", "yes", "on"}
        return bool(value)
    
    
    def _shell_quote_context(command_template: str, position: int) -> Optional[str]:
        """Return the shell quote character active right before *position*.
    
        Returns ``"'"`` / ``'"'`` when inside a single- / double-quoted region
        of the template, ``None`` for bare context.
        """
        quote: Optional[str] = None
        escaped = False
        i = 0
        while i < position:
            char = command_template[i]
            if quote == "'":
                if char == "'":
                    quote = None
            elif quote == '"':
                if escaped:
                    escaped = False
                elif char == "\\":
                    escaped = True
                elif char == '"':
                    quote = None
            elif char == "'":
                quote = "'"
            elif char == '"':
                quote = '"'
            elif char == "\\":
                i += 1
            i += 1
        return quote
    
    
    def _quote_command_tts_placeholder(value: str, quote_context: Optional[str]) -> str:
        """Quote a placeholder value for its position in a shell command template."""
        if quote_context == "'":
            return value.replace("'", r"'\''")
        if quote_context == '"':
            return (
                value
                .replace("\\", "\\\\")
                .replace('"', r'\"')
                .replace("$", r"\$")
                .replace("`", r"\`")
            )
        if os.name == "nt":
            return subprocess.list2cmdline([value])
        return shlex.quote(value)
    
    
    def _render_command_tts_template(
        command_template: str,
        placeholders: Dict[str, str],
    ) -> str:
        """Replace supported placeholders while preserving ``{{`` / ``}}``."""
        names = "|".join(re.escape(name) for name in placeholders)
        pattern = re.compile(
            rf"(?<!\$)(?:\{{\{{(?P<double>{names})\}}\}}|\{{(?P<single>{names})\}})"
        )
        replacements: list[tuple[str, str]] = []
    
        def replace_match(match: re.Match[str]) -> str:
            name = match.group("double") or match.group("single")
            token = f"__HERMES_TTS_PLACEHOLDER_{len(replacements)}__"
            replacements.append((
                token,
                _quote_command_tts_placeholder(
                    placeholders[name],
                    _shell_quote_context(command_template, match.start()),
                ),
            ))
            return token
    
        rendered = pattern.sub(replace_match, command_template)
        rendered = rendered.replace("{{", "{").replace("}}", "}")
        for token, value in replacements:
            rendered = rendered.replace(token, value)
        return rendered
    
    
    def _terminate_command_tts_process_tree(proc: subprocess.Popen) -> None:
        """Best-effort termination of a shell process and all of its children."""
        if proc.poll() is not None:
            return
    
        if os.name == "nt":
            try:
                subprocess.run(
                    ["taskkill", "/F", "/T", "/PID", str(proc.pid)],
                    stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                    stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                    timeout=5,
                    stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                )
            except Exception:
                proc.kill()
            return
    
        import psutil
        try:
            parent = psutil.Process(proc.pid)
            for child in parent.children(recursive=True):
                try:
                    child.terminate()
                except psutil.NoSuchProcess:
                    pass
            parent.terminate()
        except psutil.NoSuchProcess:
            return
        except Exception:
            proc.terminate()
    
        try:
            proc.wait(timeout=2)
            return
        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
            pass
    
        try:
            parent = psutil.Process(proc.pid)
            for child in parent.children(recursive=True):
                try:
                    child.kill()
                except psutil.NoSuchProcess:
                    pass
            parent.kill()
        except psutil.NoSuchProcess:
            return
        except Exception:
            proc.kill()
    
    
    def _run_command_tts(command: str, timeout: float) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess:
        """Run a command-provider shell command with process-tree timeout cleanup."""
        popen_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {
            "shell": True,
            "stdout": subprocess.PIPE,
            "stderr": subprocess.PIPE,
            "text": True,
        }
        if os.name == "nt":
            popen_kwargs["creationflags"] = getattr(subprocess, "CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP", 0)
        else:
            popen_kwargs["start_new_session"] = True
    
        proc = subprocess.Popen(command, **popen_kwargs, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
        try:
            stdout, stderr = proc.communicate(timeout=timeout)
        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired as exc:
            _terminate_command_tts_process_tree(proc)
            try:
                stdout, stderr = proc.communicate(timeout=1)
            except Exception:
                stdout = getattr(exc, "output", None)
                stderr = getattr(exc, "stderr", None)
            raise subprocess.TimeoutExpired(
                command,
                timeout,
                output=stdout,
                stderr=stderr,
            ) from exc
    
        if proc.returncode:
            raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(
                proc.returncode,
                command,
                output=stdout,
                stderr=stderr,
            )
        return subprocess.CompletedProcess(command, proc.returncode, stdout, stderr)
    
    
    def _configured_command_tts_output_path(path: Path, config: Dict[str, Any]) -> Path:
        """Return an output path whose extension matches the provider's output_format."""
        fmt = _get_command_tts_output_format(config)
        return path.with_suffix(f".{fmt}")
    
    
    def _generate_command_tts(
        text: str,
        output_path: str,
        provider_name: str,
        config: Dict[str, Any],
        tts_config: Dict[str, Any],
    ) -> str:
        """Generate speech by running a user-configured shell command.
    
        Returns the absolute path of the audio file the command wrote.
        Raises ``ValueError`` when the provider config is invalid, and
        ``RuntimeError`` for timeouts / non-zero exits / empty output.
        """
        command_template = str(config.get("command") or "").strip()
        if not command_template:
            raise ValueError(
                f"tts.providers.{provider_name}.command is not configured"
            )
    
        output = Path(output_path).expanduser()
        output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        if output.exists():
            output.unlink()
    
        timeout = _get_command_tts_timeout(config)
        output_format = _get_command_tts_output_format(config, str(output))
        speed = config.get("speed", tts_config.get("speed", ""))
    
        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
            text_path = Path(tmpdir) / "input.txt"
            text_path.write_text(text, encoding="utf-8")
    
            placeholders = {
                "input_path": str(text_path),
                "text_path": str(text_path),
                "output_path": str(output),
                "format": output_format,
                "voice": str(config.get("voice", "")),
                "model": str(config.get("model", "")),
                "speed": str(speed),
            }
            command = _render_command_tts_template(command_template, placeholders)
    
            try:
                _run_command_tts(command, timeout)
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired as exc:
                raise RuntimeError(
                    f"TTS provider '{provider_name}' timed out after {timeout:g}s"
                ) from exc
            except subprocess.CalledProcessError as exc:
                detail_parts = []
                if exc.stderr:
                    detail_parts.append(f"stderr: {exc.stderr.strip()}")
                if exc.stdout:
                    detail_parts.append(f"stdout: {exc.stdout.strip()}")
                detail = "; ".join(detail_parts) or "no command output"
                raise RuntimeError(
                    f"TTS provider '{provider_name}' exited with code "
                    f"{exc.returncode}: {detail}"
                ) from exc
    
        if not output.exists() or output.stat().st_size <= 0:
            raise RuntimeError(
                f"TTS provider '{provider_name}' produced no output at {output}"
            )
        return str(output)
    
    
    def _has_any_command_tts_provider(tts_config: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> bool:
        """Return True when any command-type TTS provider is configured."""
        if tts_config is None:
            tts_config = _load_tts_config()
        for _name, _cfg in _iter_command_providers(tts_config):
            return True
        return False
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # ffmpeg Opus conversion (Edge TTS MP3 -> OGG Opus for Telegram)
    # ===========================================================================
    def _has_ffmpeg() -> bool:
        """Check if ffmpeg is available on the system."""
        return shutil.which("ffmpeg") is not None
    
    
    def _convert_to_opus(mp3_path: str) -> Optional[str]:
        """
        Convert an MP3 file to OGG Opus format for Telegram voice bubbles.
    
        Args:
            mp3_path: Path to the input MP3 file.
    
        Returns:
            Path to the .ogg file, or None if conversion fails.
        """
        if not _has_ffmpeg():
            return None
    
        ogg_path = mp3_path.rsplit(".", 1)[0] + ".ogg"
        try:
            result = subprocess.run(
                ["ffmpeg", "-i", mp3_path, "-acodec", "libopus",
                 "-ac", "1", "-b:a", "64k", "-vbr", "off", ogg_path, "-y"],
                capture_output=True, timeout=30,
                stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
            )
            if result.returncode != 0:
                logger.warning("ffmpeg conversion failed with return code %d: %s", 
                              result.returncode, result.stderr.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')[:200])
                return None
            if os.path.exists(ogg_path) and os.path.getsize(ogg_path) > 0:
                return ogg_path
        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
            logger.warning("ffmpeg OGG conversion timed out after 30s")
        except FileNotFoundError:
            logger.warning("ffmpeg not found in PATH")
        except Exception as e:
            logger.warning("ffmpeg OGG conversion failed: %s", e, exc_info=True)
        return None
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: Edge TTS (free)
    # ===========================================================================
    async def _generate_edge_tts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """
        Generate audio using Edge TTS.
    
        Args:
            text: Text to convert.
            output_path: Where to save the MP3 file.
            tts_config: TTS config dict.
    
        Returns:
            Path to the saved audio file.
        """
        _edge_tts = _import_edge_tts()
        edge_config = tts_config.get("edge", {})
        voice = edge_config.get("voice", DEFAULT_EDGE_VOICE)
        speed = float(edge_config.get("speed", tts_config.get("speed", 1.0)))
    
        kwargs = {"voice": voice}
        if speed != 1.0:
            pct = round((speed - 1.0) * 100)
            kwargs["rate"] = f"{pct:+d}%"
    
        communicate = _edge_tts.Communicate(text, **kwargs)
        await communicate.save(output_path)
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: ElevenLabs (premium)
    # ===========================================================================
    def _generate_elevenlabs(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """
        Generate audio using ElevenLabs.
    
        Args:
            text: Text to convert.
            output_path: Where to save the audio file.
            tts_config: TTS config dict.
    
        Returns:
            Path to the saved audio file.
        """
        api_key = (get_env_value("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY") or "")
        if not api_key:
            raise ValueError("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY not set. Get one at https://elevenlabs.io/")
    
        el_config = tts_config.get("elevenlabs", {})
        voice_id = el_config.get("voice_id", DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID)
        model_id = el_config.get("model_id", DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_MODEL_ID)
    
        # Determine output format based on file extension
        if output_path.endswith(".ogg"):
            output_format = "opus_48000_64"
        else:
            output_format = "mp3_44100_128"
    
        ElevenLabs = _import_elevenlabs()
        client = ElevenLabs(api_key=api_key)
        audio_generator = client.text_to_speech.convert(
            text=text,
            voice_id=voice_id,
            model_id=model_id,
            output_format=output_format,
        )
    
        # audio_generator yields chunks -- write them all
        with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
            for chunk in audio_generator:
                f.write(chunk)
    
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: OpenAI TTS
    # ===========================================================================
    def _generate_openai_tts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """
        Generate audio using OpenAI TTS.
    
        Args:
            text: Text to convert.
            output_path: Where to save the audio file.
            tts_config: TTS config dict.
    
        Returns:
            Path to the saved audio file.
        """
        api_key, base_url = _resolve_openai_audio_client_config()
    
        oai_config = tts_config.get("openai", {})
        model = oai_config.get("model", DEFAULT_OPENAI_MODEL)
        voice = oai_config.get("voice", DEFAULT_OPENAI_VOICE)
        base_url = oai_config.get("base_url", base_url)
        speed = float(oai_config.get("speed", tts_config.get("speed", 1.0)))
    
        # Determine response format from extension
        if output_path.endswith(".ogg"):
            response_format = "opus"
        else:
            response_format = "mp3"
    
        OpenAIClient = _import_openai_client()
        client = OpenAIClient(api_key=api_key, base_url=base_url)
        try:
            create_kwargs = {
                "model": model,
                "voice": voice,
                "input": text,
                "response_format": response_format,
                "extra_headers": {"x-idempotency-key": str(uuid.uuid4())},
            }
            if speed != 1.0:
                create_kwargs["speed"] = max(0.25, min(4.0, speed))
            response = client.audio.speech.create(**create_kwargs)
    
            response.stream_to_file(output_path)
            return output_path
        finally:
            close = getattr(client, "close", None)
            if callable(close):
                close()
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: xAI TTS
    # ===========================================================================
    _XAI_INLINE_SPEECH_TAGS = (
        "pause",
        "long-pause",
        "hum-tune",
        "laugh",
        "chuckle",
        "giggle",
        "cry",
        "tsk",
        "tongue-click",
        "lip-smack",
        "breath",
        "inhale",
        "exhale",
        "sigh",
    )
    _XAI_WRAPPING_SPEECH_TAGS = (
        "soft",
        "whisper",
        "loud",
        "build-intensity",
        "decrease-intensity",
        "higher-pitch",
        "lower-pitch",
        "slow",
        "fast",
        "sing-song",
        "singing",
        "laugh-speak",
        "emphasis",
    )
    _XAI_SPEECH_TAG_RE = re.compile(
        r"(\[(?:" + "|".join(_XAI_INLINE_SPEECH_TAGS) + r")\]|</?(?:" + "|".join(_XAI_WRAPPING_SPEECH_TAGS) + r")>)",
        flags=re.IGNORECASE,
    )
    _XAI_FIRST_SENTENCE_RE = re.compile(r"^(.{12,120}?[.!?…])\s+(?=\S)", flags=re.DOTALL)
    
    
    def _xai_bool_config(value: Any, default: bool = False) -> bool:
        return _config_bool(value, default=default)
    
    
    def _apply_xai_auto_speech_tags(text: str) -> str:
        """Add light xAI speech tags for more natural voice-mode replies.
    
        The transform is intentionally conservative: it only inserts pauses. It
        never fabricates laughter or whispering, and it leaves explicit user/model
        speech tags untouched.
        """
        clean = text.strip()
        if not clean or _XAI_SPEECH_TAG_RE.search(clean):
            return text
    
        clean = re.sub(r"\n\s*\n+", " [pause] ", clean)
        clean = re.sub(r"\s*\n\s*", " ", clean)
        if not _XAI_SPEECH_TAG_RE.search(clean):
            clean = _XAI_FIRST_SENTENCE_RE.sub(r"\1 [pause] ", clean, count=1)
        clean = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", clean).strip()
        return clean
    
    
    def _generate_xai_tts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """
        Generate audio using xAI TTS.
    
        xAI exposes a dedicated /v1/tts endpoint instead of the OpenAI audio.speech
        API shape, so this is implemented as a separate backend.
        """
        import requests
    
        from tools.xai_http import resolve_xai_http_credentials
    
        creds = resolve_xai_http_credentials()
        api_key = str(creds.get("api_key") or "").strip()
        if not api_key:
            raise ValueError("No xAI credentials found. Configure xAI OAuth in `hermes model` or set XAI_API_KEY.")
    
        xai_config = tts_config.get("xai", {})
        voice_id = str(xai_config.get("voice_id", DEFAULT_XAI_VOICE_ID)).strip() or DEFAULT_XAI_VOICE_ID
        language = str(xai_config.get("language", DEFAULT_XAI_LANGUAGE)).strip() or DEFAULT_XAI_LANGUAGE
        sample_rate = int(xai_config.get("sample_rate", DEFAULT_XAI_SAMPLE_RATE))
        bit_rate = int(xai_config.get("bit_rate", DEFAULT_XAI_BIT_RATE))
        auto_speech_tags = _xai_bool_config(
            xai_config.get("auto_speech_tags", xai_config.get("speech_tags")),
            DEFAULT_XAI_AUTO_SPEECH_TAGS,
        )
        if auto_speech_tags:
            text = _apply_xai_auto_speech_tags(text)
        base_url = str(
            xai_config.get("base_url")
            or creds.get("base_url")
            or get_env_value("XAI_BASE_URL")
            or DEFAULT_XAI_BASE_URL
        ).strip().rstrip("/")
    
        # Match the documented minimal POST /v1/tts shape by default. Only send
        # output_format when Hermes actually needs a non-default format/override.
        codec = "wav" if output_path.endswith(".wav") else "mp3"
        payload: Dict[str, Any] = {
            "text": text,
            "voice_id": voice_id,
            "language": language,
        }
        if (
            codec != "mp3"
            or sample_rate != DEFAULT_XAI_SAMPLE_RATE
            or (codec == "mp3" and bit_rate != DEFAULT_XAI_BIT_RATE)
        ):
            output_format: Dict[str, Any] = {"codec": codec}
            if sample_rate:
                output_format["sample_rate"] = sample_rate
            if codec == "mp3" and bit_rate:
                output_format["bit_rate"] = bit_rate
            payload["output_format"] = output_format
    
        response = requests.post(
            f"{base_url}/tts",
            headers={
                "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}",
                "Content-Type": "application/json",
                "User-Agent": hermes_xai_user_agent(),
            },
            json=payload,
            timeout=60,
        )
        response.raise_for_status()
    
        with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
            f.write(response.content)
    
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: MiniMax TTS
    # ===========================================================================
    def _generate_minimax_tts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """
        Generate audio using MiniMax TTS API.
    
        Supports two endpoints:
        - v1/text_to_speech: simple payload, returns raw audio (Content-Type: audio/mpeg)
        - v1/t2a_v2: nested voice_setting/audio_setting, returns JSON with hex-encoded audio
    
        Args:
            text: Text to convert (max 10,000 characters).
            output_path: Where to save the audio file.
            tts_config: TTS config dict.
    
        Returns:
            Path to the saved audio file.
        """
        import requests
    
        api_key = (get_env_value("MINIMAX_API_KEY") or "")
        if not api_key:
            raise ValueError("MINIMAX_API_KEY not set. Get one at https://platform.minimax.io/")
    
        mm_config = tts_config.get("minimax", {})
        model = mm_config.get("model", DEFAULT_MINIMAX_MODEL)
        voice_id = mm_config.get("voice_id", DEFAULT_MINIMAX_VOICE_ID)
        base_url = mm_config.get("base_url", DEFAULT_MINIMAX_BASE_URL)
        speed = mm_config.get("speed", 1.0)
        vol = mm_config.get("vol", 1.0)
        pitch = mm_config.get("pitch", 0)
        emotion = mm_config.get("emotion", "neutral")
        sample_rate = mm_config.get("sample_rate", 32000)
        bitrate = mm_config.get("bitrate", 128000)
    
        # MiniMax accounts scope TTS requests by GroupId.  When present, the docs
        # show it as a ?GroupId=<id> query param on the t2a_v2 URL.  Accept it
        # from config or from the MINIMAX_GROUP_ID env var; only attach when the
        # URL doesn't already carry one.
        group_id = (
            str(mm_config.get("group_id") or "").strip()
            or (get_env_value("MINIMAX_GROUP_ID") or "").strip()
        )
        if group_id and "GroupId=" not in base_url:
            sep = "&" if "?" in base_url else "?"
            base_url = f"{base_url}{sep}GroupId={group_id}"
    
        headers = {
            "Content-Type": "application/json",
            "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}",
        }
    
        # Detect endpoint from URL
        is_t2a_v2 = "t2a_v2" in base_url
    
        if is_t2a_v2:
            # t2a_v2 endpoint: nested voice_setting/audio_setting structure
            payload = {
                "model": model,
                "text": text,
                "voice_setting": {
                    "voice_id": voice_id,
                    "speed": speed,
                    "vol": vol,
                    "pitch": pitch,
                    "emotion": emotion,
                },
                "audio_setting": {
                    "sample_rate": sample_rate,
                    "bitrate": bitrate,
                    "format": "mp3",
                    "channel": 1,
                },
            }
        else:
            # text_to_speech endpoint: flat payload
            payload = {
                "model": model,
                "text": text,
                "voice_id": voice_id,
            }
    
        response = requests.post(base_url, json=payload, headers=headers, timeout=60)
    
        if is_t2a_v2:
            # t2a_v2 returns JSON with hex-encoded audio
            response.raise_for_status()
            result = response.json()
            base_resp = result.get("base_resp", {})
            status_code = base_resp.get("status_code", -1)
    
            if status_code != 0:
                status_msg = base_resp.get("status_msg", "unknown error")
                raise RuntimeError(f"MiniMax TTS API error (code {status_code}): {status_msg}")
    
            hex_audio = result.get("data", {}).get("audio", "")
            if not hex_audio:
                raise RuntimeError("MiniMax TTS returned empty audio data")
    
            audio_bytes = bytes.fromhex(hex_audio)
            with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
                f.write(audio_bytes)
            return output_path
    
        else:
            # text_to_speech returns raw audio directly
            content_type = response.headers.get("Content-Type", "")
    
            if "audio/" in content_type:
                with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
                    f.write(response.content)
                return output_path
    
            # Fallback: try parsing as JSON
            try:
                result = response.json()
                base_resp = result.get("base_resp", {})
                status_code = base_resp.get("status_code", -1)
                if status_code != 0:
                    status_msg = base_resp.get("status_msg", "unknown error")
                    raise RuntimeError(f"MiniMax TTS API error (code {status_code}): {status_msg}")
            except Exception:
                response.raise_for_status()
                raise RuntimeError(
                    f"MiniMax TTS returned unexpected Content-Type '{content_type}' "
                    f"({len(response.content)} bytes)"
                )
    
            raise RuntimeError("MiniMax TTS returned no audio data")
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: Mistral (Voxtral TTS)
    # ===========================================================================
    def _generate_mistral_tts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """Generate audio using Mistral Voxtral TTS API.
    
        The API returns base64-encoded audio; this function decodes it
        and writes the raw bytes to *output_path*.
        Supports native Opus output for Telegram voice bubbles.
        """
        api_key = (get_env_value("MISTRAL_API_KEY") or "")
        if not api_key:
            raise ValueError("MISTRAL_API_KEY not set. Get one at https://console.mistral.ai/")
    
        mi_config = tts_config.get("mistral", {})
        model = mi_config.get("model", DEFAULT_MISTRAL_TTS_MODEL)
        voice_id = mi_config.get("voice_id") or DEFAULT_MISTRAL_TTS_VOICE_ID
    
        if output_path.endswith(".ogg"):
            response_format = "opus"
        elif output_path.endswith(".wav"):
            response_format = "wav"
        elif output_path.endswith(".flac"):
            response_format = "flac"
        else:
            response_format = "mp3"
    
        Mistral = _import_mistral_client()
        try:
            with Mistral(api_key=api_key) as client:
                response = client.audio.speech.complete(
                    model=model,
                    input=text,
                    voice_id=voice_id,
                    response_format=response_format,
                )
                audio_bytes = base64.b64decode(response.audio_data)
        except ValueError:
            raise
        except Exception as e:
            logger.error("Mistral TTS failed: %s", e, exc_info=True)
            raise RuntimeError(f"Mistral TTS failed: {type(e).__name__}") from e
    
        with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
            f.write(audio_bytes)
    
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: Google Gemini TTS
    # ===========================================================================
    def _wrap_pcm_as_wav(
        pcm_bytes: bytes,
        sample_rate: int = GEMINI_TTS_SAMPLE_RATE,
        channels: int = GEMINI_TTS_CHANNELS,
        sample_width: int = GEMINI_TTS_SAMPLE_WIDTH,
    ) -> bytes:
        """Wrap raw signed-little-endian PCM with a standard WAV RIFF header.
    
        Gemini TTS returns audio/L16;codec=pcm;rate=24000 -- raw PCM samples with
        no container. We add a minimal WAV header so the file is playable and
        ffmpeg can re-encode it to MP3/Opus downstream.
        """
        import struct
    
        byte_rate = sample_rate * channels * sample_width
        block_align = channels * sample_width
        data_size = len(pcm_bytes)
        fmt_chunk = struct.pack(
            "<4sIHHIIHH",
            b"fmt ",
            16,             # fmt chunk size (PCM)
            1,              # audio format (PCM)
            channels,
            sample_rate,
            byte_rate,
            block_align,
            sample_width * 8,
        )
        data_chunk_header = struct.pack("<4sI", b"data", data_size)
        riff_size = 4 + len(fmt_chunk) + len(data_chunk_header) + data_size
        riff_header = struct.pack("<4sI4s", b"RIFF", riff_size, b"WAVE")
        return riff_header + fmt_chunk + data_chunk_header + pcm_bytes
    
    
    def _resolve_gemini_persona_prompt_path(gemini_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Return the configured persona prompt file path, if any."""
        raw = gemini_config.get("persona_prompt_file")
        if not isinstance(raw, str) or not raw.strip():
            return None
    
        expanded = os.path.expandvars(raw.strip())
        path = Path(expanded).expanduser()
        if not path.is_absolute():
            try:
                from hermes_constants import get_hermes_home
                path = get_hermes_home() / path
            except Exception:
                path = Path.cwd() / path
        return path
    
    
    def _read_gemini_persona_prompt(gemini_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """Read the Gemini persona prompt file, failing soft on config mistakes."""
        path = _resolve_gemini_persona_prompt_path(gemini_config)
        if path is None:
            return ""
        try:
            return path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
        except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc:
            logger.warning(
                "Gemini TTS persona prompt file unavailable at %s: %s",
                path,
                exc,
            )
            return ""
    
    
    def _gemini_model_supports_audio_tags(model: str) -> bool:
        """Return True for Gemini TTS models known to support expressive audio tags."""
        normalized = (model or "").strip().lower().rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
        return "gemini-3.1" in normalized and "tts" in normalized
    
    
    def _gemini_audio_tags_enabled(gemini_config: Dict[str, Any], model: str) -> bool:
        raw = gemini_config.get("audio_tags")
        if isinstance(raw, dict):
            raw = raw.get("enabled")
        enabled = _config_bool(raw, default=DEFAULT_GEMINI_AUDIO_TAGS)
        if not enabled:
            return False
        if not _gemini_model_supports_audio_tags(model):
            logger.warning(
                "Gemini TTS audio_tags enabled, but model %s is not known to support "
                "Gemini audio tags; skipping hidden tag rewrite",
                model,
            )
            return False
        return True
    
    
    def _clean_gemini_audio_tag_rewrite(content: str) -> str:
        clean = (content or "").strip()
        fence = re.fullmatch(r"```(?:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)?\s*(.*?)\s*```", clean, flags=re.DOTALL)
        if fence:
            clean = fence.group(1).strip()
        return clean
    
    
    def _extract_auxiliary_message_content(response: Any) -> str:
        try:
            choice = response.choices[0]
            message = getattr(choice, "message", None)
            if isinstance(message, dict):
                return str(message.get("content") or "")
            return str(getattr(message, "content", "") or "")
        except Exception:
            return ""
    
    
    def _rewrite_gemini_tts_audio_tags(text: str, persona_prompt: str = "") -> str:
        """Use the configured auxiliary model to insert Gemini audio tags."""
        transcript = text.strip()
        if not transcript:
            return text
    
        system_prompt = (
            "You rewrite transcripts for Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS by inserting expressive "
            "audio tags.\n\n"
            "Audio tags are inline square-bracket modifiers such as [whispers], "
            "[excitedly], [very slow], [sarcastically], [laughs], [sighs], or [gasp]. "
            "There is no fixed allowlist. Use creative freeform tags generously but "
            "naturally to control tone, pace, emotional vibe, emphasis, section-level "
            "delivery, and non-verbal sounds. Use English audio tags even when the "
            "spoken transcript is not English.\n\n"
            "Rules:\n"
            "- Preserve the spoken words, order, and meaning.\n"
            "- Do not add new spoken sentences or remove existing spoken words.\n"
            "- Use square brackets for every audio tag.\n"
            "- Do not use SSML or XML tags.\n"
            "- Do not explain or comment.\n"
            "- Return only the tagged TTS script."
        )
        context = persona_prompt.strip() or "(none)"
        user_prompt = (
            "PERSONA AND DIRECTOR CONTEXT:\n"
            f"{context}\n\n"
            "TRANSCRIPT TO TAG:\n"
            f"{transcript}"
        )
        try:
            from agent.auxiliary_client import call_llm
    
            response = call_llm(
                task=GEMINI_AUDIO_TAG_REWRITE_TASK,
                messages=[
                    {"role": "system", "content": system_prompt},
                    {"role": "user", "content": user_prompt},
                ],
                temperature=0.7,
            )
            tagged = _clean_gemini_audio_tag_rewrite(_extract_auxiliary_message_content(response))
            return tagged or text
        except Exception as exc:
            logger.warning("Gemini TTS audio tag rewrite failed; using untagged text: %s", exc)
            return text
    
    
    def _compose_gemini_tts_prompt(
        text: str,
        gemini_config: Dict[str, Any],
        persona_prompt: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> str:
        """Build the Gemini prompt from persona direction plus the live transcript."""
        transcript = text.strip()
        if persona_prompt is None:
            persona_prompt = _read_gemini_persona_prompt(gemini_config)
        if not persona_prompt:
            return transcript
    
        preamble = (
            "Synthesize speech from the TRANSCRIPT only. Treat AUDIO PROFILE, "
            "SCENE, DIRECTOR'S NOTES, and SAMPLE CONTEXT as performance direction; "
            "do not speak those sections aloud."
        )
    
        placeholder_patterns = (
            re.compile(r"\{\{\s*transcript\s*\}\}", flags=re.IGNORECASE),
            re.compile(r"\{\s*transcript\s*\}", flags=re.IGNORECASE),
        )
        prompt = persona_prompt
        for pattern in placeholder_patterns:
            if pattern.search(prompt):
                prompt = pattern.sub(transcript, prompt)
                return f"{preamble}\n\n{prompt}".strip()
    
        return f"{preamble}\n\n{persona_prompt}\n\n#### TRANSCRIPT\n{transcript}".strip()
    
    
    def _generate_gemini_tts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """Generate audio using Google Gemini TTS.
    
        Gemini's generateContent endpoint with responseModalities=["AUDIO"] returns
        raw 24kHz mono 16-bit PCM (L16) as base64. We wrap it with a WAV RIFF
        header to produce a playable file, then ffmpeg-convert to MP3 / Opus if
        the caller requested those formats (same pattern as NeuTTS).
    
        Args:
            text: Text to convert (prompt-style; supports inline direction like
                  "Say cheerfully:" and audio tags like [whispers]).
            output_path: Where to save the audio file (.wav, .mp3, or .ogg).
            tts_config: TTS config dict.
    
        Returns:
            Path to the saved audio file.
        """
        import requests
    
        api_key = (get_env_value("GEMINI_API_KEY") or get_env_value("GOOGLE_API_KEY") or "").strip()
        if not api_key:
            raise ValueError(
                "GEMINI_API_KEY not set. Get one at https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey"
            )
    
        raw_gemini_config = tts_config.get("gemini", {})
        gemini_config = raw_gemini_config if isinstance(raw_gemini_config, dict) else {}
        model = str(gemini_config.get("model", DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_MODEL)).strip() or DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_MODEL
        voice = str(gemini_config.get("voice", DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_VOICE)).strip() or DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_VOICE
        base_url = str(
            gemini_config.get("base_url")
            or get_env_value("GEMINI_BASE_URL")
            or DEFAULT_GEMINI_TTS_BASE_URL
        ).strip().rstrip("/")
        persona_prompt = _read_gemini_persona_prompt(gemini_config)
        tts_script = text
        if _gemini_audio_tags_enabled(gemini_config, model):
            tts_script = _rewrite_gemini_tts_audio_tags(text, persona_prompt=persona_prompt)
        prompt_text = _compose_gemini_tts_prompt(
            tts_script,
            gemini_config,
            persona_prompt=persona_prompt,
        )
        max_len = _resolve_max_text_length("gemini", tts_config)
        if len(prompt_text) > max_len:
            logger.warning(
                "Gemini TTS composed prompt too long (%d chars), truncating to %d",
                len(prompt_text), max_len,
            )
            prompt_text = prompt_text[:max_len]
    
        payload: Dict[str, Any] = {
            "contents": [{"parts": [{"text": prompt_text}]}],
            "generationConfig": {
                "responseModalities": ["AUDIO"],
                "speechConfig": {
                    "voiceConfig": {
                        "prebuiltVoiceConfig": {"voiceName": voice},
                    },
                },
            },
        }
    
        endpoint = f"{base_url}/models/{model}:generateContent"
        response = requests.post(
            endpoint,
            params={"key": api_key},
            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
            json=payload,
            timeout=60,
        )
        if response.status_code != 200:
            # Surface the API error message when present
            try:
                err = response.json().get("error", {})
                detail = err.get("message") or response.text[:300]
            except Exception:
                detail = response.text[:300]
            raise RuntimeError(
                f"Gemini TTS API error (HTTP {response.status_code}): {detail}"
            )
    
        try:
            data = response.json()
            parts = data["candidates"][0]["content"]["parts"]
            audio_part = next((p for p in parts if "inlineData" in p or "inline_data" in p), None)
            if audio_part is None:
                raise RuntimeError("Gemini TTS response contained no audio data")
            inline = audio_part.get("inlineData") or audio_part.get("inline_data") or {}
            audio_b64 = inline.get("data", "")
        except (KeyError, IndexError, TypeError) as e:
            raise RuntimeError(f"Gemini TTS response was malformed: {e}") from e
    
        if not audio_b64:
            raise RuntimeError("Gemini TTS returned empty audio data")
    
        pcm_bytes = base64.b64decode(audio_b64)
        wav_bytes = _wrap_pcm_as_wav(pcm_bytes)
    
        # Fast path: caller wants WAV directly, just write.
        if output_path.lower().endswith(".wav"):
            with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
                f.write(wav_bytes)
            return output_path
    
        # Otherwise write WAV to a temp file and ffmpeg-convert to the target
        # format (.mp3 or .ogg). If ffmpeg is missing, fall back to renaming the
        # WAV -- this matches the NeuTTS behavior and keeps the tool usable on
        # systems without ffmpeg (audio still plays, just with a misleading
        # extension).
        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".wav", delete=False) as tmp:
            tmp.write(wav_bytes)
            wav_path = tmp.name
    
        try:
            ffmpeg = shutil.which("ffmpeg")
            if ffmpeg:
                # For .ogg output, force libopus encoding (Telegram voice bubbles
                # require Opus specifically; ffmpeg's default for .ogg is Vorbis).
                if output_path.lower().endswith(".ogg"):
                    cmd = [
                        ffmpeg, "-i", wav_path,
                        "-acodec", "libopus", "-ac", "1",
                        "-b:a", "64k", "-vbr", "off",
                        "-y", "-loglevel", "error",
                        output_path,
                    ]
                else:
                    cmd = [ffmpeg, "-i", wav_path, "-y", "-loglevel", "error", output_path]
                result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, timeout=30, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
                if result.returncode != 0:
                    stderr = result.stderr.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore")[:300]
                    raise RuntimeError(f"ffmpeg conversion failed: {stderr}")
            else:
                logger.warning(
                    "ffmpeg not found; writing raw WAV to %s (extension may be misleading)",
                    output_path,
                )
                shutil.copyfile(wav_path, output_path)
        finally:
            try:
                os.remove(wav_path)
            except OSError:
                pass
    
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # NeuTTS (local, on-device TTS via neutts_cli)
    # ===========================================================================
    
    def _check_neutts_available() -> bool:
        """Check if the neutts engine is importable (installed locally)."""
        try:
            import importlib.util
            return importlib.util.find_spec("neutts") is not None
        except Exception:
            return False
    
    
    def _check_kittentts_available() -> bool:
        """Check if the kittentts engine is importable (installed locally)."""
        try:
            import importlib.util
            return importlib.util.find_spec("kittentts") is not None
        except Exception:
            return False
    
    
    def _default_neutts_ref_audio() -> str:
        """Return path to the bundled default voice reference audio."""
        return str(Path(__file__).parent / "neutts_samples" / "jo.wav")
    
    
    def _default_neutts_ref_text() -> str:
        """Return path to the bundled default voice reference transcript."""
        return str(Path(__file__).parent / "neutts_samples" / "jo.txt")
    
    
    def _generate_neutts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """Generate speech using the local NeuTTS engine.
    
        Runs synthesis in a subprocess via tools/neutts_synth.py to keep the
        ~500MB model in a separate process that exits after synthesis.
        Outputs WAV; the caller handles conversion for Telegram if needed.
        """
        import sys
    
        neutts_config = tts_config.get("neutts", {})
        ref_audio = neutts_config.get("ref_audio", "") or _default_neutts_ref_audio()
        ref_text = neutts_config.get("ref_text", "") or _default_neutts_ref_text()
        model = neutts_config.get("model", "neuphonic/neutts-air-q4-gguf")
        device = neutts_config.get("device", "cpu")
    
        # NeuTTS outputs WAV natively — use a .wav path for generation,
        # let the caller convert to the final format afterward.
        wav_path = output_path
        if not output_path.endswith(".wav"):
            wav_path = output_path.rsplit(".", 1)[0] + ".wav"
    
        synth_script = str(Path(__file__).parent / "neutts_synth.py")
        cmd = [
            sys.executable, synth_script,
            "--text", text,
            "--out", wav_path,
            "--ref-audio", ref_audio,
            "--ref-text", ref_text,
            "--model", model,
            "--device", device,
        ]
    
        result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=120, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
        if result.returncode != 0:
            stderr = result.stderr.strip()
            # Filter out the "OK:" line from stderr
            error_lines = [l for l in stderr.splitlines() if not l.startswith("OK:")]
            raise RuntimeError(f"NeuTTS synthesis failed: {chr(10).join(error_lines) or 'unknown error'}")
    
        # If the caller wanted .mp3 or .ogg, convert from WAV
        if wav_path != output_path:
            ffmpeg = shutil.which("ffmpeg")
            if ffmpeg:
                conv_cmd = [ffmpeg, "-i", wav_path, "-y", "-loglevel", "error", output_path]
                subprocess.run(conv_cmd, check=True, timeout=30, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
                os.remove(wav_path)
            else:
                # No ffmpeg — just rename the WAV to the expected path
                os.rename(wav_path, output_path)
    
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: Piper (local, neural VITS, 44 languages)
    # ===========================================================================
    
    # Module-level cache for Piper voice instances. Voices are keyed on their
    # absolute .onnx model path so switching voices doesn't invalidate older
    # cached voices.
    _piper_voice_cache: Dict[str, Any] = {}
    
    
    def _check_piper_available() -> bool:
        """Check whether the piper-tts package is importable."""
        try:
            import importlib.util
            return importlib.util.find_spec("piper") is not None
        except Exception:
            return False
    
    
    def _get_piper_voices_dir() -> Path:
        """Return the directory where Hermes caches Piper voice models.
    
        Resolves to ``~/.hermes/cache/piper-voices/`` under the active
        HERMES_HOME so voice downloads follow profile boundaries.
        """
        from hermes_constants import get_hermes_dir
        root = Path(get_hermes_dir("cache/piper-voices", "piper_voices_cache"))
        root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        return root
    
    
    def _resolve_piper_voice_path(voice: str, download_dir: Path) -> str:
        """Resolve *voice* (a model name or path) to a concrete .onnx file path.
    
        Accepts any of:
          - Absolute / expanded path to an .onnx file the user already has
          - A voice *name* like ``en_US-lessac-medium`` (downloads to
            ``download_dir`` on first use via ``python -m piper.download_voices``)
    
        Raises RuntimeError if the model can't be located or downloaded.
        """
        if not voice:
            voice = DEFAULT_PIPER_VOICE
    
        # Case 1: user gave a direct file path.
        candidate = Path(voice).expanduser()
        if candidate.suffix.lower() == ".onnx" and candidate.exists():
            return str(candidate)
    
        # Case 2: user gave a voice *name*. See if it's already downloaded.
        cached = download_dir / f"{voice}.onnx"
        if cached.exists() and (download_dir / f"{voice}.onnx.json").exists():
            return str(cached)
    
        # Case 3: download the voice. piper ships a download helper module.
        import sys as _sys
        logger.info("[Piper] Downloading voice '%s' to %s (first use)", voice, download_dir)
        try:
            result = subprocess.run(
                [_sys.executable, "-m", "piper.download_voices", voice,
                 "--download-dir", str(download_dir)],
                capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=300,
                stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
            )
        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired as exc:
            raise RuntimeError(
                f"Piper voice download timed out after 300s for '{voice}'"
            ) from exc
    
        if result.returncode != 0:
            stderr = (result.stderr or "").strip() or "no stderr output"
            raise RuntimeError(
                f"Piper voice download failed for '{voice}': {stderr[:400]}"
            )
    
        if not cached.exists():
            raise RuntimeError(
                f"Piper voice download completed but {cached} is missing — "
                f"check voice name (see: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/"
                f"blob/main/docs/VOICES.md)"
            )
        return str(cached)
    
    
    def _generate_piper_tts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """Generate speech using the local Piper engine.
    
        Loads the voice model once per process (cached by absolute path) and
        writes a WAV file. Caller is responsible for converting to MP3/Opus
        via ffmpeg when a different output format is required.
        """
        PiperVoice = _import_piper()
        import wave
    
        piper_config = tts_config.get("piper", {}) if isinstance(tts_config, dict) else {}
        voice_name = piper_config.get("voice") or DEFAULT_PIPER_VOICE
        download_dir = Path(piper_config.get("voices_dir") or _get_piper_voices_dir()).expanduser()
        download_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        use_cuda = bool(piper_config.get("use_cuda", False))
    
        model_path = _resolve_piper_voice_path(voice_name, download_dir)
    
        cache_key = f"{model_path}::cuda={use_cuda}"
        global _piper_voice_cache
        if cache_key not in _piper_voice_cache:
            logger.info("[Piper] Loading voice: %s", model_path)
            _piper_voice_cache[cache_key] = PiperVoice.load(model_path, use_cuda=use_cuda)
            logger.info("[Piper] Voice loaded")
        voice = _piper_voice_cache[cache_key]
    
        # Optional synthesis knobs — only pass a SynthesisConfig when at least
        # one advanced knob is configured, so we don't depend on a newer Piper
        # version than the user's installed one unless we need to.
        syn_config = None
        has_advanced = any(
            k in piper_config
            for k in ("length_scale", "noise_scale", "noise_w_scale", "volume", "normalize_audio")
        )
        if has_advanced:
            try:
                from piper import SynthesisConfig  # type: ignore
                syn_config = SynthesisConfig(
                    length_scale=float(piper_config.get("length_scale", 1.0)),
                    noise_scale=float(piper_config.get("noise_scale", 0.667)),
                    noise_w_scale=float(piper_config.get("noise_w_scale", 0.8)),
                    volume=float(piper_config.get("volume", 1.0)),
                    normalize_audio=bool(piper_config.get("normalize_audio", True)),
                )
            except ImportError:
                logger.warning(
                    "[Piper] SynthesisConfig not available in this piper-tts "
                    "version — advanced knobs ignored"
                )
    
        # Piper outputs WAV. Caller handles downstream MP3/Opus conversion.
        wav_path = output_path
        if not output_path.endswith(".wav"):
            wav_path = output_path.rsplit(".", 1)[0] + ".wav"
    
        with wave.open(wav_path, "wb") as wav_file:
            if syn_config is not None:
                voice.synthesize_wav(text, wav_file, syn_config=syn_config)
            else:
                voice.synthesize_wav(text, wav_file)
    
        # Convert to desired format if caller requested mp3/ogg
        if wav_path != output_path:
            ffmpeg = shutil.which("ffmpeg")
            if ffmpeg:
                conv_cmd = [ffmpeg, "-i", wav_path, "-y", "-loglevel", "error", output_path]
                subprocess.run(conv_cmd, check=True, timeout=30, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
                try:
                    os.remove(wav_path)
                except OSError:
                    pass
            else:
                # No ffmpeg — keep WAV and return that path
                os.rename(wav_path, output_path)
    
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Provider: KittenTTS (local, lightweight)
    # ===========================================================================
    
    # Module-level cache for KittenTTS model instance
    _kittentts_model_cache: Dict[str, Any] = {}
    
    
    def _generate_kittentts(text: str, output_path: str, tts_config: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
        """Generate speech using KittenTTS local ONNX model.
    
        KittenTTS is a lightweight TTS engine (25-80MB models) that runs
        entirely on CPU without requiring a GPU or API key.
    
        Args:
            text: Text to convert to speech.
            output_path: Where to save the audio file.
            tts_config: TTS config dict.
    
        Returns:
            Path to the saved audio file.
        """
        KittenTTS = _import_kittentts()
        kt_config = tts_config.get("kittentts", {})
        model_name = kt_config.get("model", DEFAULT_KITTENTTS_MODEL)
        voice = kt_config.get("voice", DEFAULT_KITTENTTS_VOICE)
        speed = kt_config.get("speed", 1.0)
        clean_text = kt_config.get("clean_text", True)
    
        # Use cached model instance if available
        global _kittentts_model_cache
        if model_name not in _kittentts_model_cache:
            logger.info("[KittenTTS] Loading model: %s", model_name)
            _kittentts_model_cache[model_name] = KittenTTS(model_name)
            logger.info("[KittenTTS] Model loaded successfully")
    
        model = _kittentts_model_cache[model_name]
    
        # Generate audio (returns numpy array at 24kHz)
        audio = model.generate(text, voice=voice, speed=speed, clean_text=clean_text)
    
        # Save as WAV
        import soundfile as sf
        wav_path = output_path
        if not output_path.endswith(".wav"):
            wav_path = output_path.rsplit(".", 1)[0] + ".wav"
    
        sf.write(wav_path, audio, 24000)
    
        # Convert to desired format if needed
        if wav_path != output_path:
            ffmpeg = shutil.which("ffmpeg")
            if ffmpeg:
                conv_cmd = [ffmpeg, "-i", wav_path, "-y", "-loglevel", "error", output_path]
                subprocess.run(conv_cmd, check=True, timeout=30, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
                os.remove(wav_path)
            else:
                # No ffmpeg — rename the WAV to the expected path
                os.rename(wav_path, output_path)
    
        return output_path
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Main tool function
    # ===========================================================================
    def text_to_speech_tool(
        text: str,
        output_path: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> str:
        """
        Convert text to speech audio.
    
        Reads provider/voice config from ~/.hermes/config.yaml (tts: section).
        The model sends text; the user configures voice and provider.
    
        On messaging platforms, the returned MEDIA:<path> tag is intercepted
        by the send pipeline and delivered as a native voice message.
        In CLI mode, the file is saved to ~/voice-memos/.
    
        Args:
            text: The text to convert to speech.
            output_path: Optional custom save path. Defaults to ~/voice-memos/<timestamp>.mp3
    
        Returns:
            str: JSON result with success, file_path, and optionally MEDIA tag.
        """
        if not text or not text.strip():
            return tool_error("Text is required", success=False)
    
        tts_config = _load_tts_config()
        provider = _get_provider(tts_config)
    
        # User-declared command provider (type: command under tts.providers.<name>)
        # resolves BEFORE the built-in dispatch. Built-in names short-circuit here
        # so a user's ``tts.providers.openai.command`` can't override the real
        # OpenAI handler.
        command_provider_config = _resolve_command_provider_config(provider, tts_config)
    
        # Truncate very long text with a warning. The cap is per-provider
        # (OpenAI 4096, xAI 15k, MiniMax 10k, ElevenLabs model-aware, etc.).
        max_len = _resolve_max_text_length(provider, tts_config)
        if len(text) > max_len:
            logger.warning(
                "TTS text too long for provider %s (%d chars), truncating to %d",
                provider, len(text), max_len,
            )
            text = text[:max_len]
    
        # Detect platform from gateway env var to choose the best output format.
        # Telegram voice bubbles require Opus (.ogg); OpenAI and ElevenLabs can
        # produce Opus natively (no ffmpeg needed).  Edge TTS always outputs MP3
        # and needs ffmpeg for conversion.
        from gateway.session_context import get_session_env
        platform = get_session_env("HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM", "").lower()
        want_opus = (platform == "telegram")
    
        # Determine output path
        if output_path:
            # Reject '..' traversal components in the user-supplied path. An
            # explicit absolute path is fine (the agent legitimately writes
            # audio to user-specified locations), but a path that uses ``..``
            # to escape its declared base is almost always either a bug or
            # prompt-injection-controlled — e.g.
            # ``output_path="audio/../../etc/cron.d/x"``. The terminal tool
            # can still write anywhere with approval; this just keeps the
            # unattended TTS surface from materializing files via traversal.
            from tools.path_security import has_traversal_component
            if has_traversal_component(output_path):
                return json.dumps({
                    "success": False,
                    "error": (
                        f"output_path contains '..' traversal component: "
                        f"{output_path}. Use an absolute path or one relative "
                        "to the current directory without '..'."
                    ),
                }, ensure_ascii=False)
            file_path = Path(output_path).expanduser()
            if command_provider_config is not None:
                # Respect caller-supplied path but align the extension with the
                # provider's configured output_format so the command writes to a
                # path the caller actually expects.
                file_path = _configured_command_tts_output_path(
                    file_path, command_provider_config
                )
        else:
            timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
            out_dir = Path(DEFAULT_OUTPUT_DIR)
            out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
            if command_provider_config is not None:
                fmt = _get_command_tts_output_format(command_provider_config)
                file_path = out_dir / f"tts_{timestamp}.{fmt}"
            # Use .ogg for Telegram with providers that support native Opus output,
            # otherwise fall back to .mp3 (Edge TTS will attempt ffmpeg conversion later).
            elif want_opus and provider in {"openai", "elevenlabs", "mistral", "gemini"}:
                file_path = out_dir / f"tts_{timestamp}.ogg"
            else:
                file_path = out_dir / f"tts_{timestamp}.mp3"
    
        # Ensure parent directory exists
        file_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        file_str = str(file_path)
    
        try:
            # Generate audio with the configured provider
            if command_provider_config is not None:
                logger.info(
                    "Generating speech with command TTS provider '%s'...", provider,
                )
                file_str = _generate_command_tts(
                    text, file_str, provider, command_provider_config, tts_config,
                )
    
            # Plugin-registered TTS backend (issue #30398). Fires when the
            # configured provider is neither a built-in nor a command-type
            # entry, AND a plugin is registered under that name. The walrus
            # binds `_plugin_path` only when the dispatcher returns a path
            # (i.e. a plugin was actually found); a None return falls
            # through to the built-in elif chain so unknown names hit the
            # Edge TTS default at the bottom. The dispatcher itself enforces
            # built-ins-always-win + command-wins-over-plugin defensively.
            elif provider not in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS and (
                _plugin_path := _dispatch_to_plugin_provider(
                    text, file_str, provider, tts_config,
                )
            ) is not None:
                file_str = _plugin_path
    
            elif provider == "elevenlabs":
                try:
                    _import_elevenlabs()
                except ImportError:
                    return json.dumps({
                        "success": False,
                        "error": "ElevenLabs provider selected but 'elevenlabs' package not installed. Run: pip install elevenlabs"
                    }, ensure_ascii=False)
                logger.info("Generating speech with ElevenLabs...")
                _generate_elevenlabs(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "openai":
                try:
                    _import_openai_client()
                except ImportError:
                    return json.dumps({
                        "success": False,
                        "error": "OpenAI provider selected but 'openai' package not installed."
                    }, ensure_ascii=False)
                logger.info("Generating speech with OpenAI TTS...")
                _generate_openai_tts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "minimax":
                logger.info("Generating speech with MiniMax TTS...")
                _generate_minimax_tts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "xai":
                logger.info("Generating speech with xAI TTS...")
                _generate_xai_tts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "mistral":
                try:
                    _import_mistral_client()
                except ImportError:
                    return json.dumps({
                        "success": False,
                        "error": "Mistral provider selected but 'mistralai' package not installed. "
                                 "Run: pip install 'hermes-agent[mistral]'"
                    }, ensure_ascii=False)
                logger.info("Generating speech with Mistral Voxtral TTS...")
                _generate_mistral_tts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "gemini":
                logger.info("Generating speech with Google Gemini TTS...")
                _generate_gemini_tts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "neutts":
                if not _check_neutts_available():
                    return json.dumps({
                        "success": False,
                        "error": "NeuTTS provider selected but neutts is not installed. "
                                 "Run hermes setup and choose NeuTTS, or install espeak-ng and run python -m pip install -U neutts[all]."
                    }, ensure_ascii=False)
                logger.info("Generating speech with NeuTTS (local)...")
                _generate_neutts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "kittentts":
                try:
                    _import_kittentts()
                except ImportError:
                    return json.dumps({
                        "success": False,
                        "error": "KittenTTS provider selected but 'kittentts' package not installed. "
                                 "Run 'hermes setup tts' and choose KittenTTS, or install manually: "
                                 "pip install https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.8.1/kittentts-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl"
                    }, ensure_ascii=False)
                logger.info("Generating speech with KittenTTS (local, ~25MB)...")
                _generate_kittentts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            elif provider == "piper":
                try:
                    _import_piper()
                except ImportError:
                    return json.dumps({
                        "success": False,
                        "error": "Piper provider selected but 'piper-tts' package not installed. "
                                 "Run 'hermes tools' and select Piper under TTS, or install manually: "
                                 "pip install piper-tts",
                    }, ensure_ascii=False)
                logger.info("Generating speech with Piper (local)...")
                _generate_piper_tts(text, file_str, tts_config)
    
            else:
                # Default: Edge TTS (free), with NeuTTS as local fallback
                edge_available = True
                try:
                    _import_edge_tts()
                except ImportError:
                    edge_available = False
    
                if edge_available:
                    logger.info("Generating speech with Edge TTS...")
                    try:
                        import concurrent.futures
                        with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1) as pool:
                            pool.submit(
                                lambda: asyncio.run(_generate_edge_tts(text, file_str, tts_config))
                            ).result(timeout=60)
                    except RuntimeError:
                        asyncio.run(_generate_edge_tts(text, file_str, tts_config))
                elif _check_neutts_available():
                    logger.info("Edge TTS not available, falling back to NeuTTS (local)...")
                    provider = "neutts"
                    _generate_neutts(text, file_str, tts_config)
                else:
                    return json.dumps({
                        "success": False,
                        "error": "No TTS provider available. Install edge-tts (pip install edge-tts) "
                                 "or set up NeuTTS for local synthesis."
                    }, ensure_ascii=False)
    
            # Check the file was actually created
            if not os.path.exists(file_str) or os.path.getsize(file_str) == 0:
                return json.dumps({
                    "success": False,
                    "error": f"TTS generation produced no output (provider: {provider})"
                }, ensure_ascii=False)
    
            # Try Opus conversion for Telegram compatibility.
            # Edge TTS outputs MP3, NeuTTS/KittenTTS output WAV. Keep those native
            # formats for local/CLI playback and only convert when the current
            # platform actually needs Opus voice delivery.
            voice_compatible = False
            if command_provider_config is not None:
                # Command providers are documents by default. Voice-bubble
                # delivery only kicks in when the user explicitly opts in
                # via ``voice_compatible: true`` in their provider config.
                if _is_command_tts_voice_compatible(command_provider_config):
                    if not file_str.endswith(".ogg"):
                        opus_path = _convert_to_opus(file_str)
                        if opus_path:
                            file_str = opus_path
                    voice_compatible = file_str.endswith(".ogg")
            elif provider not in BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS:
                # Plugin-registered provider (issue #30398). Voice-bubble
                # delivery opts in via ``TTSProvider.voice_compatible``
                # (mirrors the command-provider opt-in). Plugins that
                # already write Opus skip the ffmpeg conversion.
                plugin_voice_compatible = _plugin_provider_is_voice_compatible(provider)
                if plugin_voice_compatible:
                    if not file_str.endswith(".ogg"):
                        opus_path = _convert_to_opus(file_str)
                        if opus_path:
                            file_str = opus_path
                    voice_compatible = file_str.endswith(".ogg")
            elif (
                want_opus
                and provider in {"edge", "neutts", "minimax", "xai", "kittentts", "piper"}
                and not file_str.endswith(".ogg")
            ):
                opus_path = _convert_to_opus(file_str)
                if opus_path:
                    file_str = opus_path
                    voice_compatible = True
            elif provider in {"elevenlabs", "openai", "mistral", "gemini"}:
                voice_compatible = want_opus and file_str.endswith(".ogg")
    
            file_size = os.path.getsize(file_str)
            logger.info("TTS audio saved: %s (%s bytes, provider: %s)", file_str, f"{file_size:,}", provider)
    
            # Build response with MEDIA tag for platform delivery
            media_tag = f"MEDIA:{file_str}"
            if voice_compatible:
                media_tag = f"[[audio_as_voice]]\n{media_tag}"
    
            return json.dumps({
                "success": True,
                "file_path": file_str,
                "media_tag": media_tag,
                "provider": provider,
                "voice_compatible": voice_compatible,
            }, ensure_ascii=False)
    
        except ValueError as e:
            # Configuration errors (missing API keys, etc.)
            error_msg = f"TTS configuration error ({provider}): {e}"
            logger.error("%s", error_msg)
            return tool_error(error_msg, success=False)
        except FileNotFoundError as e:
            # Missing dependencies or files
            error_msg = f"TTS dependency missing ({provider}): {e}"
            logger.error("%s", error_msg, exc_info=True)
            return tool_error(error_msg, success=False)
        except Exception as e:
            # Unexpected errors
            error_msg = f"TTS generation failed ({provider}): {e}"
            logger.error("%s", error_msg, exc_info=True)
            return tool_error(error_msg, success=False)
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Requirements check
    # ===========================================================================
    def check_tts_requirements() -> bool:
        """
        Check if at least one TTS provider is available.
    
        Edge TTS needs no API key and is the default, so if the package
        is installed, TTS is available. A user-declared command provider
        also satisfies the requirement.
    
        Returns:
            bool: True if at least one provider can work.
        """
        # Any configured command provider counts as available.
        if _has_any_command_tts_provider():
            return True
        try:
            _import_edge_tts()
            return True
        except ImportError:
            pass
        try:
            _import_elevenlabs()
            if get_env_value("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"):
                return True
        except ImportError:
            pass
        try:
            _import_openai_client()
            if _has_openai_audio_backend():
                return True
        except ImportError:
            pass
        if get_env_value("MINIMAX_API_KEY"):
            return True
        try:
            from tools.xai_http import resolve_xai_http_credentials
    
            if resolve_xai_http_credentials().get("api_key"):
                return True
        except Exception:
            pass
        if get_env_value("GEMINI_API_KEY") or get_env_value("GOOGLE_API_KEY"):
            return True
        try:
            _import_mistral_client()
            if get_env_value("MISTRAL_API_KEY"):
                return True
        except ImportError:
            pass
        if _check_neutts_available():
            return True
        if _check_kittentts_available():
            return True
        if _check_piper_available():
            return True
        return False
    
    
    def _resolve_openai_audio_client_config() -> tuple[str, str]:
        """Return direct OpenAI audio config or a managed gateway fallback.
    
        When ``tts.use_gateway`` is set in config, the Tool Gateway is preferred
        even if direct OpenAI credentials are present.
        """
        direct_api_key = resolve_openai_audio_api_key()
        if direct_api_key and not prefers_gateway("tts"):
            return direct_api_key, DEFAULT_OPENAI_BASE_URL
    
        managed_gateway = resolve_managed_tool_gateway("openai-audio")
        if managed_gateway is None:
            message = "Neither VOICE_TOOLS_OPENAI_KEY nor OPENAI_API_KEY is set"
            if managed_nous_tools_enabled() or prefers_gateway("tts"):
                message += (
                    ". "
                    + nous_tool_gateway_unavailable_message(
                        "managed OpenAI audio for TTS",
                    )
                )
            raise ValueError(message)
    
        return managed_gateway.nous_user_token, urljoin(
            f"{managed_gateway.gateway_origin.rstrip('/')}/", "v1"
        )
    
    
    def _has_openai_audio_backend() -> bool:
        """Return True when OpenAI audio can use direct credentials or the managed gateway."""
        return bool(resolve_openai_audio_api_key() or resolve_managed_tool_gateway("openai-audio"))
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Streaming TTS: sentence-by-sentence pipeline for ElevenLabs
    # ===========================================================================
    # Sentence boundary pattern: punctuation followed by space or newline
    _SENTENCE_BOUNDARY_RE = re.compile(r'(?<=[.!?])(?:\s|\n)|(?:\n\n)')
    
    # Markdown stripping patterns (same as cli.py _voice_speak_response)
    _MD_CODE_BLOCK = re.compile(r'```[\s\S]*?```')
    _MD_LINK = re.compile(r'\[([^\]]+)\]\([^)]+\)')
    _MD_URL = re.compile(r'https?://\S+')
    _MD_BOLD = re.compile(r'\*\*(.+?)\*\*')
    _MD_ITALIC = re.compile(r'\*(.+?)\*')
    _MD_INLINE_CODE = re.compile(r'`(.+?)`')
    _MD_HEADER = re.compile(r'^#+\s*', flags=re.MULTILINE)
    _MD_LIST_ITEM = re.compile(r'^\s*[-*]\s+', flags=re.MULTILINE)
    _MD_HR = re.compile(r'---+')
    _MD_EXCESS_NL = re.compile(r'\n{3,}')
    
    
    def _strip_markdown_for_tts(text: str) -> str:
        """Remove markdown formatting that shouldn't be spoken aloud."""
        text = _MD_CODE_BLOCK.sub(' ', text)
        text = _MD_LINK.sub(r'\1', text)
        text = _MD_URL.sub('', text)
        text = _MD_BOLD.sub(r'\1', text)
        text = _MD_ITALIC.sub(r'\1', text)
        text = _MD_INLINE_CODE.sub(r'\1', text)
        text = _MD_HEADER.sub('', text)
        text = _MD_LIST_ITEM.sub('', text)
        text = _MD_HR.sub('', text)
        text = _MD_EXCESS_NL.sub('\n\n', text)
        return text.strip()
    
    
    def stream_tts_to_speaker(
        text_queue: queue.Queue,
        stop_event: threading.Event,
        tts_done_event: threading.Event,
        display_callback: Optional[Callable[[str], None]] = None,
    ):
        """Consume text deltas from *text_queue*, buffer them into sentences,
        and stream each sentence through ElevenLabs TTS to the speaker in
        real-time.
    
        Protocol:
            * The producer puts ``str`` deltas onto *text_queue*.
            * A ``None`` sentinel signals end-of-text (flush remaining buffer).
            * *stop_event* can be set to abort early (e.g. user interrupt).
            * *tts_done_event* is **set** in the ``finally`` block so callers
              waiting on it (continuous voice mode) know playback is finished.
        """
        tts_done_event.clear()
    
        try:
            # --- TTS client setup (optional -- display_callback works without it) ---
            client = None
            output_stream = None
            voice_id = DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID
            model_id = DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_STREAMING_MODEL_ID
    
            tts_config = _load_tts_config()
            el_config = tts_config.get("elevenlabs", {})
            voice_id = el_config.get("voice_id", voice_id)
            model_id = el_config.get("streaming_model_id",
                                     el_config.get("model_id", model_id))
            # Per-sentence cap for the streaming path. Look up the cap against
            # the *streaming* model_id (defaults to eleven_flash_v2_5 = 40k chars),
            # not the sync model_id. A user override
            # (tts.elevenlabs.max_text_length) still wins.
            stream_max_len = _resolve_max_text_length(
                "elevenlabs",
                {**tts_config, "elevenlabs": {**el_config, "model_id": model_id}},
            )
    
            api_key = (get_env_value("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY") or "")
            if not api_key:
                logger.warning("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY not set; streaming TTS audio disabled")
            else:
                try:
                    ElevenLabs = _import_elevenlabs()
                    client = ElevenLabs(api_key=api_key)
                except ImportError:
                    logger.warning("elevenlabs package not installed; streaming TTS disabled")
    
                # Open a single sounddevice output stream for the lifetime of
                # this function.  ElevenLabs pcm_24000 produces signed 16-bit
                # little-endian mono PCM at 24 kHz.
                if client is not None:
                    try:
                        sd = _import_sounddevice()
                        output_stream = sd.OutputStream(
                            samplerate=24000, channels=1, dtype="int16",
                        )
                        output_stream.start()
                    except (ImportError, OSError) as exc:
                        logger.debug("sounddevice not available: %s", exc)
                        output_stream = None
                    except Exception as exc:
                        logger.warning("sounddevice OutputStream failed: %s", exc)
                        output_stream = None
    
            sentence_buf = ""
            min_sentence_len = 20
            long_flush_len = 100
            queue_timeout = 0.5
            _spoken_sentences: list[str] = []  # track spoken sentences to skip duplicates
            # Regex to strip complete <think>...</think> blocks from buffer
            _think_block_re = re.compile(r'<think[\s>].*?</think>', flags=re.DOTALL)
    
            def _speak_sentence(sentence: str):
                """Display sentence and optionally generate + play audio."""
                if stop_event.is_set():
                    return
                cleaned = _strip_markdown_for_tts(sentence).strip()
                if not cleaned:
                    return
                # Skip duplicate/near-duplicate sentences (LLM repetition)
                cleaned_lower = cleaned.lower().rstrip(".!,")
                for prev in _spoken_sentences:
                    if prev.lower().rstrip(".!,") == cleaned_lower:
                        return
                _spoken_sentences.append(cleaned)
                # Display raw sentence on screen before TTS processing
                if display_callback is not None:
                    display_callback(sentence)
                # Skip audio generation if no TTS client available
                if client is None:
                    return
                # Truncate very long sentences (ElevenLabs streaming path)
                if len(cleaned) > stream_max_len:
                    cleaned = cleaned[:stream_max_len]
                try:
                    audio_iter = client.text_to_speech.convert(
                        text=cleaned,
                        voice_id=voice_id,
                        model_id=model_id,
                        output_format="pcm_24000",
                    )
                    if output_stream is not None:
                        for chunk in audio_iter:
                            if stop_event.is_set():
                                break
                            import numpy as _np
                            audio_array = _np.frombuffer(chunk, dtype=_np.int16)
                            output_stream.write(audio_array.reshape(-1, 1))
                    else:
                        # Fallback: write chunks to temp file and play via system player
                        _play_via_tempfile(audio_iter, stop_event)
                except Exception as exc:
                    logger.warning("Streaming TTS sentence failed: %s", exc)
    
            def _play_via_tempfile(audio_iter, stop_evt):
                """Write PCM chunks to a temp WAV file and play it."""
                tmp_path = None
                try:
                    import wave
                    tmp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".wav", delete=False)
                    tmp_path = tmp.name
                    with wave.open(tmp, "wb") as wf:
                        wf.setnchannels(1)
                        wf.setsampwidth(2)  # 16-bit
                        wf.setframerate(24000)
                        for chunk in audio_iter:
                            if stop_evt.is_set():
                                break
                            wf.writeframes(chunk)
                    from tools.voice_mode import play_audio_file
                    play_audio_file(tmp_path)
                except Exception as exc:
                    logger.warning("Temp-file TTS fallback failed: %s", exc)
                finally:
                    if tmp_path:
                        try:
                            os.unlink(tmp_path)
                        except OSError:
                            pass
    
            while not stop_event.is_set():
                # Read next delta from queue
                try:
                    delta = text_queue.get(timeout=queue_timeout)
                except queue.Empty:
                    # Timeout: if we have accumulated a long buffer, flush it
                    if len(sentence_buf) > long_flush_len:
                        _speak_sentence(sentence_buf)
                        sentence_buf = ""
                    continue
    
                if delta is None:
                    # End-of-text sentinel: strip any remaining think blocks, flush
                    sentence_buf = _think_block_re.sub('', sentence_buf)
                    if sentence_buf.strip():
                        _speak_sentence(sentence_buf)
                    break
    
                sentence_buf += delta
    
                # --- Think block filtering ---
                # Strip complete <think>...</think> blocks from buffer.
                # Works correctly even when tags span multiple deltas.
                sentence_buf = _think_block_re.sub('', sentence_buf)
    
                # If an incomplete <think tag is at the end, wait for more data
                # before extracting sentences (the closing tag may arrive next).
                if '<think' in sentence_buf and '</think>' not in sentence_buf:
                    continue
    
                # Check for sentence boundaries
                while True:
                    m = _SENTENCE_BOUNDARY_RE.search(sentence_buf)
                    if m is None:
                        break
                    end_pos = m.end()
                    sentence = sentence_buf[:end_pos]
                    sentence_buf = sentence_buf[end_pos:]
                    # Merge short fragments into the next sentence
                    if len(sentence.strip()) < min_sentence_len:
                        sentence_buf = sentence + sentence_buf
                        break
                    _speak_sentence(sentence)
    
            # Drain any remaining items from the queue
            while True:
                try:
                    text_queue.get_nowait()
                except queue.Empty:
                    break
    
            # output_stream is closed in the finally block below
    
        except Exception as exc:
            logger.warning("Streaming TTS pipeline error: %s", exc)
        finally:
            # Always close the audio output stream to avoid locking the device
            if output_stream is not None:
                try:
                    output_stream.stop()
                    output_stream.close()
                except Exception:
                    pass
            tts_done_event.set()
    
    
    # ===========================================================================
    # Main -- quick diagnostics
    # ===========================================================================
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        print("🔊 Text-to-Speech Tool Module")
        print("=" * 50)
    
        def _check(importer, label):
            try:
                importer()
                return True
            except ImportError:
                return False
    
        print("\nProvider availability:")
        print(f"  Edge TTS:   {'installed' if _check(_import_edge_tts, 'edge') else 'not installed (pip install edge-tts)'}")
        print(f"  ElevenLabs: {'installed' if _check(_import_elevenlabs, 'el') else 'not installed (pip install elevenlabs)'}")
        print(f"    API Key:  {'set' if get_env_value('ELEVENLABS_API_KEY') else 'not set'}")
        print(f"  OpenAI:     {'installed' if _check(_import_openai_client, 'oai') else 'not installed'}")
        print(
            "    API Key:  "
            f"{'set' if resolve_openai_audio_api_key() else 'not set (VOICE_TOOLS_OPENAI_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY)'}"
        )
        print(f"  MiniMax:    {'API key set' if get_env_value('MINIMAX_API_KEY') else 'not set (MINIMAX_API_KEY)'}")
        print(f"  Piper:      {'installed' if _check_piper_available() else 'not installed (pip install piper-tts)'}")
        print(f"  ffmpeg:     {'✅ found' if _has_ffmpeg() else '❌ not found (needed for Telegram Opus)'}")
        print(f"\n  Output dir: {DEFAULT_OUTPUT_DIR}")
    
        config = _load_tts_config()
        provider = _get_provider(config)
        print(f"  Configured provider: {provider}")
    
    
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Registry
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    from tools.registry import registry, tool_error
    
    TTS_SCHEMA = {
        "name": "text_to_speech",
        "description": "Convert text to speech audio. Returns a MEDIA: path that the platform delivers as native audio. Compatible providers render as a voice bubble on Telegram; otherwise audio is sent as a regular attachment. In CLI mode, saves to ~/voice-memos/. Voice and provider are user-configured (built-in providers like edge/openai or custom command providers under tts.providers.<name>), not model-selected.",
        "parameters": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
                "text": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The text to convert to speech. Provider-specific character caps apply and are enforced automatically (OpenAI 4096, xAI 15000, MiniMax 10000, ElevenLabs 5k-40k depending on model); over-long input is truncated."
                },
                "output_path": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": f"Optional custom file path to save the audio. Defaults to {display_hermes_home()}/audio_cache/<timestamp>.mp3"
                }
            },
            "required": ["text"]
        }
    }
    
    registry.register(
        name="text_to_speech",
        toolset="tts",
        schema=TTS_SCHEMA,
        handler=lambda args, **kw: text_to_speech_tool(
            text=args.get("text", ""),
            output_path=args.get("output_path")),
        check_fn=check_tts_requirements,
        emoji="🔊",
    )
    

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