MCP Quickstart

Connect Claude, Codex, or your IDE to Rime’s hosted MCP server and hear your first voice.

Connect an AI assistant to Rime’s hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and hear a Rime voice in 60 seconds. Once connected, your assistant can browse the voice catalog, check pronunciation, generate speech samples, and scaffold voice-agent code — all from a conversation.

Step 1: Connect

The connector URL is https://mcp.rime.ai.

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http rime https://mcp.rime.ai \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $RIME_API_KEY"

Claude.ai and Claude Desktop: add https://mcp.rime.ai as a custom connector under Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

OpenAI Codex:

codex mcp add rime --url https://mcp.rime.ai \
  --bearer-token-env-var RIME_API_KEY

For other clients — and connecting without an API key — see Connecting.

No key is needed to browse voices or generate integration code. Synthesis and the linguistics tools use your regular Rime API key, sent per request and never stored — see Authentication.

Step 2: Hear your first voice

Ask your assistant:

Play me a sample of a Rime voice.

With no arguments, synthesize_speech plays a short demo in the lyra voice on Coda, Rime’s flagship model.

Try more

Find me a warm, conversational voice for a customer support agent.

Which words in this script aren't in Rime's dictionary, and how will the numbers be read aloud?

Generate Pipecat starter code for a voice agent using the astra voice.

Next steps

MCP Reference

All six tools, connection setup, authentication, and audio playback

Voices

Browse the full voice catalog across models and languages

Models

Compare models: Coda, Arcana, Mist v3, Mist v2

Streaming TTS

Production streaming over HTTP, WebSockets, or SSE