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A voice layer for coding agents
A voice layer turns coding agent progress, blockers, and decisions into useful spoken updates instead of raw text to speech.
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Guides
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Manage multiple coding agents
Split the work, follow progress, and bring the results together.
Coding agent notifications
Know when your agents need you, without the noise.
Hands-free coding
Hear progress and reply without switching windows.
Hear what Claude Code is doing
The Claude Code CLI can’t speak. Heard speaks short updates on a Mac, or you can pipe a MessageDisplay or TaskCompleted hook into say or use a narrator plugin.
Make Claude Code play a sound when done
Copy-paste Stop and Notification hooks for macOS, Linux and Windows.
Get notified when Claude Code needs you
When each approval and input alert fires, plus phone and spoken options.
What did Claude Code change?
Read it with /diff and git, then get a summary in words or out loud.
Comparisons
15 resources
Heard vs. agent notifications
Compare bells, banners, generic TTS, and Heard.
macOS agent notification tools compared
Fourteen ways to follow Claude Code and Codex, from simple pings to spoken updates you can answer.
Updated September 2026terminal-notifier
Set up terminal-notifier for Claude Code and Codex, put the project name on every banner, fix banners that never appear, and add speech if you want it.
Updated October 2026Claude Code text-to-speech
Claude Code has voice input but no spoken output. Compare a say hook, claude-code-narrator, claude-code-tts, VoiceMode, Aloud and Heard, with setup for each.
Updated October 2026Codex spoken notifications
Hear when OpenAI Codex finishes or needs approval: Heard speaks it on macOS, or use the notify command with say. Also agent-notify, Voxlert, Agent Voice Reply.
Updated October 2026Heard vs. AgentNotch
AgentNotch shows your coding agents in the Mac notch; Heard tells you about them out loud. How they differ, plus AgentNotch alternatives by job.
Updated October 2026Open-source voice tools
Compare open-source voice tools for Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents: Heard, VoiceMode, AgentVibes, claude-code-narrator, VoxAgent and VoiceLayer, and which ones send text to the cloud.
Updated October 2026Voice layer for Claude Code
What is a voice layer for Claude Code? Compare Claude Code’s /voice, VoiceLayer’s MCP tools, VoiceMode and Heard’s hook-based voice layer.
Updated October 2026Read-aloud tools
Heard, Aloud, Crier, Agent Hotline, Terminal Talk, AgentVibes, Agents Aloud, AgentsRoom and Orb compared: what each reads aloud, where the voice runs, platforms, price.
Updated October 2026Heard vs. VoiceMode
VoiceMode lets you talk with Claude Code; Heard speaks your agents’ progress from their hooks. How they differ, where each wins, and setup.
Updated October 2026Heard vs. Agents Aloud
Agents Aloud reads your Claude Code and Codex messages aloud in a Mac app; Heard speaks short updates from their hooks. How they differ and when to pick each.
Updated October 2026Heard vs. Aloud
Aloud and Heard both speak Claude Code and Codex alerts aloud on macOS. How they differ in what they read, local voices, setup, price, and when to pick each.
Updated October 2026Heard vs. AgentVibes
AgentVibes has your agent speak when a task starts and ends; Heard speaks for the agent from its hooks. How they differ in words, voices, platforms and price.
Updated October 2026Heard vs. Crier
Crier and Heard both speak up when Claude Code or Codex needs you on a Mac. What each says, local voices, agents, setup, price, and when to pick each.
Updated October 2026All comparisons
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Reference
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