A side-by-side look at the MCP Kokoro Tts and Onepin MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose MCP Kokoro Tts for text-to-speech work as a local process; choose Onepin for text-to-speech. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
speak, list_voices.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | O Onepin | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Text-to-Speech | Text-to-Speech |
| Quality signal | 48/100 · Fair | 37/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Not confirmed yet |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | — |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | — |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 2 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View MCP Kokoro Tts | View Onepin |
speakSynthesizes speech, writes a WAV file, and plays it locally.list_voicesLists available Kokoro voices and the currently selected default.No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-kokoro-tts": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-kokoro-tts"
]
}
}
}
No confirmed install command for Onepin yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.