🧪 rick-voice

Give any bot the voice of Rick Sanchez.

Turn text into Rick Sanchez speech with one line of Python. Works with OpenClaw, Telegram bots, Discord bots, or anything else.

from rick_voice import RickVoice

rick = RickVoice()
rick.play("I turned myself into a pickle, Morty!")

Features

🎙️ Rick Sanchez TTS — actual Rick voice, not just pitch shifting
🔌 Pluggable providers — Fish Audio (recommended), ElevenLabs, local (coming soon)
📱 Telegram ready — generates OGG Opus voice messages out of the box
🐾 OpenClaw skill — drop-in voice for your OpenClaw assistant
⚡ Streaming — real-time audio playback
🐍 Simple API — synthesize(), play(), to_ogg(), done

Quick Start

1. Install

# With Fish Audio (recommended — Rick voice built in)
pip install rick-voice[fish]

# Or with ElevenLabs
pip install rick-voice[elevenlabs]

# Or both
pip install rick-voice[all]

2. Get an API key

Fish Audio (recommended):

Sign up at fish.audio
Get your API key at fish.audio/account/api
Add some credits (pay-as-you-go, very cheap)

export FISH_API_KEY="your-key-here"

ElevenLabs (alternative):

Sign up at elevenlabs.io
Get your API key from settings
Find a raspy/sarcastic voice in the Voice Library and copy its ID

export ELEVENLABS_API_KEY="your-key-here"
export RICK_VOICE_ID="your-voice-id"
export RICK_VOICE_PROVIDER="elevenlabs"

3. Use it

# CLI
rick-voice "Wubba lubba dub dub!"

# Interactive mode
rick-voice --interactive

# Save to file
rick-voice --save rick.mp3 "I'm pickle Rick!"

# Save as Telegram voice note
rick-voice --save-ogg rick.ogg "Nobody exists on purpose."

Python API

from rick_voice import RickVoice

rick = RickVoice()

# Play through speakers
rick.play("The universe is basically an animal.")

# Get raw audio bytes (MP3)
audio = rick.synthesize("Science, Morty!")
with open("rick.mp3", "wb") as f:
    f.write(audio)

# Get OGG Opus for Telegram voice messages
ogg = rick.to_ogg("Wubba lubba dub dub!")

# Use a specific provider
rick = RickVoice(provider="elevenlabs")

# Or configure everything
from rick_voice import RickVoiceConfig

config = RickVoiceConfig(
    provider="fish",
    fish_api_key="your-key",
    rickify_enabled=True,  # add stutters and filler words
)
rick = RickVoice(config=config)

OpenClaw Integration

Drop the openclaw-skill/ folder into your OpenClaw skills directory:

cp -r openclaw-skill/ ~/.openclaw/skills/rick-voice/

Then set your API key and OpenClaw will use Rick's voice for voice messages.

See openclaw-skill/SKILL.md for full setup.

Telegram Bot Example

A complete standalone Telegram bot that replies with Rick's voice:

export FISH_API_KEY="your-key"
export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="your-bot-token"
pip install rick-voice[fish] python-telegram-bot
python examples/telegram_bot.py

Send any text message → get a Rick Sanchez voice note back.

Providers

Provider	Quality	Setup	Cost	Rick Voice?
Fish Audio	⭐⭐⭐⭐	Easy	Pay-as-you-go (~$0.01/msg)	✅ Built in
ElevenLabs	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	Medium	Free tier + paid	❌ Find similar voice
Local	TBD	Hard	Free	🔜 Coming soon

Environment Variables

Variable	Description	Required
`FISH_API_KEY`	Fish Audio API key	For Fish provider
`ELEVENLABS_API_KEY`	ElevenLabs API key	For ElevenLabs provider
`RICK_VOICE_ID`	ElevenLabs voice ID	For ElevenLabs provider
`RICK_VOICE_PROVIDER`	Provider name ("fish" or "elevenlabs")	No (default: "fish")

Roadmap

License

MIT — do whatever you want with it.

"To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you." — Rick Sanchez

mattzzz/rick-voice