talkito

Hey everyone, here is an open source project I've been working on to add voice input/output to terminal based coding agents. One thing about the new terminal coding agents I really like is being able to multi-task but right now it's a bit like a Tesla on autopilot needing your hands still on the wheel. You need to be checking often if your input is required or if it's going off the rails. To be able to go fully hands free I wanted to add TTS and ASR. Then I added slack and WhatsApp hooks to TalkiTo as well. It's fully open source with a BYOK philosophy and it's configured to work with any of the major ASR/TTS providers. It also supports local whisper and kokoro/kittentts if you want a decent free/private option. It works by wrapping the coding agent and capturing the input/output. It does have an MCP server running but thats mainly for co

You absolutely can make a local MCP server! I use one as part of TalkiTo which runs one in the background and connects it to Claude Code at runtime so it looks like this: talkito: http://127.0.0.1:8000/sse (SSE) https://github.com/robdmac/talkito/blob/main/talkito/mcp.py Admittedly that's not as straight forward as one might hope. Also regarding this point "letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud" I hear roocode has a cool new remote connect to your local machine so you can interact with roocode on your desktop from any browser.

Thanks for the mention! Yeah I first wanted Claude Code to be more hands free when doing things around the house so added voice.. then I thought it would be great if we could go out and get messages read out by Siri on the AirPods when there is an update, and reply that way, so I added WhatsApp support specifically for this purpose. I'd be down for adding a phone option or Signal alternative but I'd be curious to know if the WhatsApp feature solves your problem? https://github.com/robdmac/talkito

Like others (smithclay, sst/opencode) have said about aiming for a similar feature, I had plans to make a mobile app for Talkito[0][1] which primarily adds voice TTS/ASR and WhatsApp/slack interactions to Claude Code. This looks like exactly what I was envisioning so congrats on getting out there first! LMK if you want to add voice controls to this. [0]: https://github.com/robdmac/talkito [1]: https://talkito.com

Talkito looks to be just a front for cloud services https://github.com/robdmac/talkito#provider-configuration -- that's a really limited definition of "open source", especially for something that itself is AGPL licensed.

Sorry to hear that and whilst it wasn't my original goal to serve such a use case I wonder if being able to interact with Claude Code via voice will help you? On MacOS it uses free defaults for TTS and ASR but you can BYOK to other providors. https://github.com/robdmac/talkito

I'm working on an open source wrapper and MCP server to give Claude Code voice capabilities (and Slack and WhatsApp messaging). It works with system default TTS and google free ASR on Mac out the box but allows you to BYOK to your favorite TTS/ASR provider. I've also tried to make it a viable python library to make it easy to switch between ASR/TTS providers. With Claude Code I really like being able to multi-task but right now it's a bit like a Tesla on autopilot needing your hands still on the wheel. With TalkiTo I can do housework/go out for lunch and keep it on the right track remotely. https://github.com/robdmac/talkito