Bol

Bol

**Talk to Claude Code. It talks back.**

[](https://github.com/abhiyan100/bol/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](LICENSE) [](#install) [bol-voice.vercel.app](https://bol-voice.vercel.app)

Tap a key, say what you want, and when Claude finishes the turn Bol tells you out loud what happened, flags what failed, and asks what Claude should do next. Speech recognition, the summarizer, and the voice all run on your Mac. No account, no key, nothing leaves the machine.

you   (tap right Option)   "refactor the auth module and run the tests"
claude                      ...edits files, runs tests, finishes...
bol   (out loud)            "Auth module's refactored and tests pass. One
                             deprecation warning in login.py though. Want
                             Claude to commit it?"
you   (tap)                 "yes, commit it"

Install

uv tool install "bol[stt,llm] @ git+https://github.com/abhiyan100/bol"
bol setup     # permissions, model downloads with progress, hook install, self-test
bol run

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon, [Claude Code](https://code.claude.com), and [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). Setup downloads about 3 GB of models (speech 2.3 GB, summarizer 0.6 GB, cleanup 0.2 GB), cached after the first time. Add `,kokoro` to the extras for a neural voice (0.3 GB more).

Why Bol

Dictation into a coding agent exists. Reading the screen to find out what the agent did is still on you. Bol closes that loop.

	Bol	Claude Code /voice	Dictation apps
Speaks into Claude Code	yes	yes	yes
Reads back what Claude did	yes	no	no
Answers permission prompts by voice	yes	no	no
Audio stays on your Mac	yes	no, [streamed to Anthropic](https://code.claude.co