Show HN: Giving Claude Code and codex its voice using kokoro

Category: cli-tool

Tags: text-to-speech, macos, accessibility

Score: 5.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Aloud is a macOS tool that provides local, privacy-preserving text-to-speech for AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex CLI, using Kokoro for offline speech synthesis and Hammerspoon for hotkey controls. It's interesting because it fills a niche accessibility/usability gap without sending agent replies to external services, and supports multiple session tracking and fine-grained controls.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/softcane/aloud · Python · MIT · 2 stars

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