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DAVE WARMERDAM

Voice Bridge

Text-to-speech for AI coding assistants. Gives Claude Code a voice.

What it does

Voice Bridge converts text to speech for AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code. Pipe any text to vb-speak and hear it read aloud. It works as a Claude Code plugin with auto-speak on every response, or single-turn mode triggered by a “speak” keyword.

Key features

  • Five TTS engines: edge-tts (free, no API key), ElevenLabs, Kokoro (local), macOS say, espeak-ng
  • Safety filtering strips code blocks, secrets, file paths, URLs, and markdown before speaking
  • Claude Code plugin with auto-speak and MCP server integration
  • Voice discovery tools to browse and preview voices by gender and locale
  • Configurable speech rate, voice selection, and engine settings per-engine
  • Works anywhere: echo "hello" | vb-speak

Built with

Python 3.10+. Settings stored in a platform-specific directory (~/.voice-bridge/ on macOS). MIT licensed, currently in alpha.