Google TTS Question

[toxic shoal]

So what are the choices for the "auto" item in messages?
{
messages: {
tts: {
auto: "always",
provider: "google",
providers: {
google: {
model: "gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview",
voiceName: "Kore",
},
},
},
},
}

[wheat escarp]

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[shadow swift]

Valid values for messages.tts.auto are:

• off , disable auto-TTS
• always , send TTS for replies
• inbound , only send TTS after an inbound voice/audio message
• tagged , only send TTS when the reply includes TTS tags like [[tts:...]] or [[tts:text]]...[[/tts:text]]

So your example with:

auto: "always"

is valid.

Docs:

• https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/tts

• https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/configuration

I checked the current docs and source, both list exactly: off | always | inbound | tagged.

[toxic shoal]

Can one turn it off temporarily with cli, or other means, or is setting messages.tts.auto off the only way?

[shadow swift]

Yep, you can override it temporarily, you do not have to edit messages.tts.auto every time.

Options:

• In chat: /tts off and /tts on
• CLI: openclaw infer tts disable and openclaw infer tts enable
• Check effective state: /tts status or openclaw infer tts status --json

Those write a local preference override to messages.tts.prefsPath (default is ~/.openclaw/settings/tts.json), so they temporarily override the config default.

Small nuance:

• /tts on restores local mode to always
• /tts off sets local mode to off

So if your config default is always, that works great as a temporary toggle.
If your config default is inbound or tagged, the chat toggle is a bit blunt, because turning it back on goes to always, not back to inbound/tagged.

Docs:

• https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/tts
• https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/configuration