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Backtalk — Development skill for Claude Code

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Talk to your Claude Code agent out loud.

How to install Backtalk

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

What Backtalk does

Talk to your Claude Code agent out loud. Hold a key, speak, and it answers in a real voice about a second later, with all its tools and its own personality. The hearing and the voice run on free local models, no API keys.

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README

backtalk

**Never used Claude Code?** Start at [jaredrhod.com](https://jaredrhod.com): pick your situation and it routes you to the right path.

**Runs on:** Claude Code only; the voice is built on Claude's agent SDK. The $20 Pro plan is enough.

Talk to your Claude Code agent out loud. Hold a key, say the thing, and it answers through your speakers in a real voice about a second later, with all its tools, your project context, and its own personality. Your AI finally has something to say back.

The hearing and the voice run local: free, offline models on your machine, no voice API keys, no per-word costs. The brain is the Claude Code you already have. On a Claude subscription, talking works like any other session and uses your plan's usage, with nothing extra to buy. This is the same voice loop I run every day, the one you see answering in about a second on my videos, shipped as working code so your agent's job is pointing it at your setup, not building it from scratch.

What it does

Hold a key, talk, release. Your words are transcribed locally and handed to a live Claude Code session. The reply is spoken sentence by sentence as it's generated, with first audio in about 1 to 2 seconds on warm turns. Prefer no button at all? Hands-free listening is one spoken sentence away ("go hands free"), and the key keeps working there as your interrupt.
It's YOUR agent talking. The session runs in the folder whose CLAUDE.md defines your assistant: same name, same personality, same memory as your terminal sessions. backtalk has no personality of its own; it's a mouth and ears for whoever you already have. (No agent yet? The ai-memory-vault build ships with mine, Jarvis, ready to use.)
Interrupt it. Press the key while it's talking and it shuts up and listens. No headphones needed, because the mic only opens while you hold the key, so it never hears the speakers.
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