🛠 Voice accompaniment for Claude Code and Codex CLI on macOS
Aloud has been released, a tool that allows adding voiceovers to terminal-based AI assistants. The project uses the local text-to-speech model Kokoro, which ensures privacy and eliminates external API latency. Aloud can read out brief summaries of AI agent responses or play back the full text via hotkeys.
🌍 It demonstrates the trend of using lightweight local models (Kokoro) to improve the UX of developer tools without the need for constant calls to cloud TTS services.
👤 It allows users to listen to terminal AI assistant responses "on the go," turning coding work into a more multimodal and hands-free process.
Source 1: https://github.com/softcane/aloud