TalkiTo
enabling voice and Slack for Claude Code and Codex CLI
Details
- External ID
- 45927954
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- TalkiTo
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 14, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey everyone, here is an open source project I've been working on to add voice input/output to terminal based coding agents.One thing about the new terminal coding agents I really like is being able to multi-task but right now it's a bit like a Tesla on autopilot needing your hands still on the wheel. You need to be checking often if your input is required or if it's going off the rails. To be able to go fully hands free I wanted to add TTS and ASR. Then I added slack and WhatsApp hooks to TalkiTo as well.It's fully open source with a BYOK philosophy and it's configured to work with any of the major ASR/TTS providers. It also supports local whisper and kokoro/kittentts if you want a decent free/private option.It works by wrapping the coding agent and capturing the input/output. It does have an MCP server running but thats mainly for configuration - I found that using MCP to speak or listen was too slow. The upshot of the MCP server is you can type (or say) "talkito disable ASR" or "talkito change tts to kokoro".Here is a demo video I made here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf8jFt0smqsI like to think of it as similar to SuperWhisper but with TTS, the focus on coding agents and configurability.Really curious to get feedback.Thanks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- voice and slack integration for ai coding assistants
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It acts as a middleware bridge wrapping existing terminal agents (like Claude Code) with Slack webhooks and STT/TTS APIs (such as Whisper and ElevenLabs).
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Cloud ASR, Slack bot notifications
Concerns raised: Resource consumption for local Whisper installation, Heavy library dependencies, Verbose notification output to Slack
Feature requests: Lightweight notification-only app without Whisper, Long-task completion notifications (30+ seconds), Verbosity level 0 for final-result-only alerts, Modular architecture without heavy dependencies
Competitors
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Attention rank: #214 of 222 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 8 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.