heardlabs / heard
Local, open-source (Apache 2.0) voice layer for Claude Code and Codex on macOS that reads your coding agent's progress aloud. Kokoro text-to-speech on your Mac, no account or API keys: hear a short spoken summary when your agent finishes or fails.
Why this job: says: text to speech; topics: text-to-speech, tts, voice-assistant
What it does
- Narrates with judgment, not transcription. Heard decides what to say from context: what just ran, whether it's a decision moment or routine progress, what you've already heard. Not every tool call gets the same airtime.
- Says what matters. In the app. questions, approvals, results and failures, kept short. The open-source engine has three listening modes, see below.
- Every agent, one voice layer. Claude Code and Codex through hooks, cloud agents through one MCP URL, all in the same spoken queue.
- Out of your way. Holding right ⌘ shows a small Listening pill; a soft light at the screen edge is Parrot's, shown while it listens, thinks or answers; the corners hold mute (bottom left) and Settings (bottom right).
- Your iPhone *(Power)*. Text or call Parrot from your iPhone.
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 3 days ago
- Stars
- 217
- On GitHub
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- Latest version
- v2.0.16
- Released yesterday
- Built with
- Python
- 94% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 44% closed
- 5 still open
- Pull requests
- 31 merged
- 3 waiting
- Releases
- 23
- 23 in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 94%
- HTML 5%
- Shell <1%
Topics
- ai-agents
- claude-code
- codex
- developer-tools
- hands-free
- macos
- text-to-speech
- voice-assistant
- agent-notifications
- claude-code-hooks
- codex-cli
- kokoro
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits637
- Forks30
- Watching9
- Stars in 28 days+15
- CreatedApr 24, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026
