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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