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Terminal Talk — Development skill for Claude Code

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Hands-free voice output for Claude Code on Windows.

How to install Terminal Talk

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open benfrancisburns-creator/terminal-talk and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Terminal Talk does

Hands-free voice output for Claude Code on Windows. Free, MIT licensed, no signup, no accounts. Microsoft Edge TTS (cloud) for voices, openWakeWord (local) for wake detection.

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README

Terminal Talk — coloured ASCII TERMINAL TALK wordmark with a pixel mascot cycling through all 24 solid and split session palette arrangements while a pixel speech bubble crossfades through Claude, Codex, focus, transcript, and tool-progress phrases

**Status: v0.7 beta · solo-maintained.** Runs on Windows and macOS, covered by a large unit harness plus 39 Playwright E2E tests and a macOS contract suite; this is still an early widely-shared release — expect rough edges. Issues and PRs welcome. The Windows build remains the original reference path, while the macOS port now covers the full toolbar + highlight-to-speak + "hey jarvis" loop, local voice commands, CoreAudio mic auto-pause, POSIX assistant hooks, and Terminal.app/iTerm2 footer audio. Remaining platform differences are mostly OS integration surfaces, such as Windows Terminal tab colour/title automation versus macOS Terminal.app title-only launch. **Linux is next.** File bugs via [private Security Advisories](https://github.com/benfrancisburns-creator/terminal-talk/se