MichaelPGifford/claude-read-aloud
9 stars · Last commit 2026-09-16
Read Claude Code's replies aloud — free local voices to premium APIs. Plugin + VS Code extension with in-chat speaker button.
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# claude-read-aloud **Hear Claude's replies instead of reading them.** A speaker button inside Claude Code's chat box, right-click **Read aloud** on any highlighted text, a hotkey, and a settings panel in Claude's own sidebar — voices from free system TTS up to Speechify / ElevenLabs / OpenAI with your own key. <img src="assets/composer-button.png" alt="Read aloud speaker button inside the chat input, beside the microphone" width="730"> If you work with Claude Code all day, you read all day — and at some point you stop absorbing and start skimming. Listening shifts the load from your eyes to your ears: you take in the whole answer, keep your eyes on the code it describes, and reply better. And when reading itself is the hard part — low vision, dyslexia, screen fatigue — it makes Claude Code usable at all. Free out of the box: system voices with zero setup, or one command installs [Kokoro], a genuinely good local neural voice — no account, no key, 54 voices. **[▶ Watch the 30-second demo](assets/demo.webm)**