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Use Gradium text-to-speech in OpenClaw
You want Gradium for text-to-speech
You need Gradium API key, voice, or directive token configuration
Gradium

Gradium is a bundled text-to-speech provider for OpenClaw. The plugin can render normal audio replies (WAV), voice-note-compatible Opus output, and 8 kHz u-law audio for telephony surfaces.

Property Value
Provider id gradium
Auth GRADIUM_API_KEY or config apiKey
Base URL https://api.gradium.ai (default)
Default voice Emma (YTpq7expH9539ERJ)

Setup

Create a Gradium API key, then expose it to OpenClaw with either an env var or the config key.

```bash export GRADIUM_API_KEY="gsk_..." ``` ```json5 { messages: { tts: { auto: "always", provider: "gradium", providers: { gradium: { apiKey: "${GRADIUM_API_KEY}", }, }, }, }, } ```

The plugin checks the resolved apiKey first and falls back to the GRADIUM_API_KEY environment variable.

Config

{
  messages: {
    tts: {
      auto: "always",
      provider: "gradium",
      providers: {
        gradium: {
          voiceId: "YTpq7expH9539ERJ",
          // apiKey: "${GRADIUM_API_KEY}",
          // baseUrl: "https://api.gradium.ai",
        },
      },
    },
  },
}
Key Type Description
messages.tts.providers.gradium.apiKey string Resolved API key. Supports ${ENV} and secret refs.
messages.tts.providers.gradium.baseUrl string Override the API origin. Trailing slashes are stripped. Defaults to https://api.gradium.ai.
messages.tts.providers.gradium.voiceId string Default voice id used when no directive override is present.

The output audio format is selected automatically by the runtime based on the target surface and is not configurable from openclaw.json. See Output below.

Voices

Name Voice ID
Emma YTpq7expH9539ERJ
Kent LFZvm12tW_z0xfGo
Tiffany Eu9iL_CYe8N-Gkx_
Christina 2H4HY2CBNyJHBCrP
Sydney jtEKaLYNn6iif5PR
John KWJiFWu2O9nMPYcR
Arthur 3jUdJyOi9pgbxBTK

Default voice: Emma.

Per-message voice override

When the active speech policy allows voice overrides, you can switch voices inline using a directive token. All of these resolve to the same voiceId override:

/voice:LFZvm12tW_z0xfGo
/voice_id:LFZvm12tW_z0xfGo
/voiceid:LFZvm12tW_z0xfGo
/gradium_voice:LFZvm12tW_z0xfGo
/gradiumvoice:LFZvm12tW_z0xfGo

If the speech policy disables voice overrides, the directive is consumed but ignored.

Output

The runtime picks the output format from the target surface. The provider does not synthesize other formats today.

Target Format File ext Sample rate Voice-compatible flag
Standard audio wav .wav provider no
Voice note opus .opus provider yes
Telephony ulaw_8000 n/a 8 kHz n/a

Auto-select order

Among configured TTS providers, Gradium's auto-select order is 30. See Text-to-Speech for how OpenClaw picks the active provider when messages.tts.provider is not pinned.