Live voice mode in Claude Code CLI
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened May 21, 2026 by Jonohobs Closed May 25, 2026
Feature request
A built-in live voice mode in the Claude Code CLI for back-and-forth verbal conversation — speak to Claude, hear responses spoken back, without leaving the terminal.
Why
Users already cobble this together with Whisper STT + TTS daemons piped around the CLI, but it's brittle and requires a lot of glue. A first-class voice mode would be a big accessibility and quality-of-life win for users who spend their day in the terminal, and would parallel the live voice mode that exists in some web/mobile Claude surfaces.
Sketch
- Push-to-talk or VAD-driven capture in the CLI
- Streamed STT into the existing prompt pipeline
- Streamed TTS playback of Claude's response (interruptible)
- Configurable provider (local Whisper/Parakeet, Groq, etc.) and voice
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