Hands-free voice for Claude Code
The author built a local speech-to-text and text-to-speech stack with a custom MCP so Claude Code can be driven by voice through AirPods.
The author debugged a custom WhatsApp integration hands-free while brushing their teeth, using the voice stack running locally on an M4 Pro.
Overview
How it was set up
Claude Code with Opus 4.5, Parakeet v3 TDT for speech-to-text, Pocket TTS for speech, a custom MCP, AirPods stem click capture, and AirPlay to a TV.
Worth knowing
Took an afternoon of custom work, including hacking around to capture the AirPods stem click.
A prompt to start from
The source does not show the prompt.
Sources 1
History
- Source published
- 2026-02-05
- Added to Agentic Feats
- 2026-10-13
- Pick
- No
- Markdown copy
- /c/hands-free-voice-for-claude-code.md
More in coding
68 featsResultA live blog aggregator pulling posts from Dev.to, AWS Community Builders, Bravo LT and RedMonk, built and deployed in a single day.
ResultA live MVP website for the podcast and newsletter went up after about 10 hours of struggling to load it on a custom URL.
ResultWithin one night Devin produced a working unanswered-emails interface using the Gmail API, after the author wrote the authentication code themselves.