Speech Toggle

Control whether Claude's responses are spoken aloud using macOS text-to-speech.

When to Use

When the user says things like:

• "turn on speech" / "turn off speech"
• "speak to me" / "stop speaking"
• "enable/disable voice"
• "I want to hear you" / "be quiet"

Commands

Enable Speech

touch ~/.claude-speak

Disable Speech

rm -f ~/.claude-speak

Check Status

[ -f ~/.claude-speak ] && echo "Speech is ON" || echo "Speech is OFF"

How It Works

A Stop hook runs after each Claude response. If ~/.claude-speak exists (or CLAUDE_SPEAK=1 is set), the hook speaks the response using macOS say command.

Examples

User: "Turn on speech" -> Run: touch ~/.claude-speak -> Respond: "Speech is now enabled. You'll hear my responses spoken aloud."

User: "Stop talking to me" -> Run: rm -f ~/.claude-speak -> Respond: "Speech disabled."