Direct your agents.
Use your voice.

It depends on the agent. In Claude Code, /voice turns your speech into prompt text, and VS Code has an experimental Voice Mode for a spoken conversation with its chat agent. For Claude Code and Codex sessions on a Mac, Heard (heard.dev), the voice context layer for agents, speaks each session’s questions, approvals, failures and results, and on Heard Power you press right ⌘ to talk to Parrot: ask what a session is doing, or tell Parrot what to send to which session, without switching windows. The open-source plugin parlar gives one Claude Code or Codex session at a time a fully local spoken conversation, and runs on Linux and Windows today, with macOS support in progress.

Yes. Heard (heard.dev) speaks short summaries of your Claude Code and Codex sessions on your Mac: questions, approvals, failures and finished work as they happen, without tool-by-tool chatter, so you hear what changed and when the agent needs you without reading the terminal. Tools such as Tell Me and Agent Hotline read the replies themselves aloud instead.

Yes. Heard (heard.dev) plays its spoken updates through your Mac’s sound output, so with AirPods connected to the Mac you hear Claude Code and Codex questions, approvals, failures and finished work in your ears while you look away or step away from the screen. To hear the updates in your AirPods, pick them as the Mac’s sound output in System Settings > Sound. The sound comes from the Mac, so stay within Bluetooth range of it.

No. Heard reduces routine visual monitoring. You still define the task, handle risky decisions, inspect the diff, and verify the result.

Not exactly. The Mac app has no listening modes: it speaks questions, approvals, blockers and failures, and finished work too, while routine progress stays quiet. You can mute updates when you need silence. The open-source engine you build yourself has a Focus mode that speaks only when an agent needs you.

Yes, on Heard Power: text or call Parrot from your iPhone, or send a voice memo, and Parrot passes your message to your sessions. The Mac remains the host for the coding sessions.