Launching today
Heard
Give Claude Code and Codex a voice
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Give Claude Code and Codex a voice
208 followers
Heard is a macOS voice layer for your agentic workflows. It connects to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor and turns their output into intelligent summaries you can hear. Full commentary when your eyes are elsewhere, or silence until something errors or needs a decision. With agents run in parallel, Heard summarizes at the project level, so you hear where the work stands, not five terminals talking over each other. Pair your phone and it comes with you. Open source, free for personal use.
Congratulations on the launch!
Really like the focus on the other half of AI interaction. does Heard support different speaking styles depending on the type of project or agent?
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@rivendell_chorro right now you can adjust level of details and when it speaks. is that what you're referring to?
Congratulations on the launch!
The voice first experience sounds interesting. can Heard recognise when multiple agents are working on the same task? how are overlapping updates handled?
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@carter_garcia thanks! attribution comes from the folder path and context building over time - Heard reads where each agent is working and maps it to a feature or directory. so "same task" becomes concrete: agents in the same folder are treated as working the same area, and it can roll their updates together instead of narrating each thread on its own.
overlap is handled at the speaking layer. updates queue rather than colliding, so you get them one at a time with the voice telling you which agent each came from - no two things talking at once. and when several are churning in the same feature, you hear a rolled-up "where this area stands" rather than a play-by-play from each.
curious does your same-task setup mean agents in one folder, or spread across different parts of the repo?
congratulations! can i respond entirely by voice while away from my desk? or do some actions still require opening the desktop app?
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@dylan_russell yes you can! you can only do that in Heard Power right now: https://heard.dev/power code: friendsofheard
you can be completely hands off, the desktop app is only for viewing and settings
Congratulations! this feels like a productivity upgrade rather than just another AI wrapper. how does Heard handle long running coding sessions? does the quality of summaries improve over time?
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@vespertine_dallarosa in long sessions it can give you summaries continuously or only when needed depending on your settings!
how does Heard avoid interrupting users with unnecessary voice updates? can notification frequency be configured?
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@flora_kendall that's the core of it. hard signals always come through - permission prompts, failures, a run finishing - but everything else gets weighed against what you've already heard this session, so it's not pinging you on every step.
and yeah, configurable. there's a verbosity dial from full commentary down to errors-only, per agent, so a chatty one can run loud and a background one near-silent.
Congratulations on the launch! 🚀
Really curious about the technical side. how much system overhead does Heard add while monitoring multiple agents? is performance impacted much?
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@daris_esteban thanks! it's light. Heard isn't polling or scanning your machine - it reads the output stream the agent already produces, so the monitoring itself is close to free. the only real cost is the summarization pass, and local TTS if you run voices on-device rather than through the cloud.
running several agents at once doesn't multiply that much, since the heavy part is per-event, not per-agent. haven't seen it get in the way of the actual agents doing work.
Congratulations! the workflow sounds perfect for developers who multitask. can heard be configured to ignore specific repositories or projects? that would be useful for reducing noise.
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@olivia_bennett7 hey olivia! that's an awesome idea. it doesn't work in the free plan atm but works in Heard Power (code: friendsofheard)