Dockable voice console for Claude Code: speak to Claude, hear responses read aloud with word highlighting, and run the claude CLI in an embedded terminal.
Talk to Claude Code without leaving Visual Studio. Claude Speak is a dockable voice console that lets you speak your prompts, hear Claude's replies read back to you, and run the Claude Code CLI in an embedded terminal — all inside the IDE.
What it does
Claude Speak puts Claude Code in a panel you can dock anywhere in Visual Studio, with four tabs that map to how you actually work:
Speak — dictate your prompt by voice. Speech-to-text drops the text straight into your current Claude session, so you can think out loud instead of typing long prompts.
Listen — have Claude's responses read aloud, with the current word highlighted as it's spoken. Choose from your installed Windows voices or higher-quality online voices, set the reading font, size, and colors, and auto-switch back to Speak when a reply finishes.
Code — an embedded terminal showing the commands Claude runs, so you can watch and intervene without leaving the panel.
Files — the files Claude edits, opened either as real Visual Studio editor tabs or in an in-panel Monaco view.
Under the hood it runs the real claude CLI in an embedded terminal — so you get the full Claude Code experience, with the IDE's context around it.
Highlights
Multiple sessions — run several Claude terminals side by side, each with its own working directory; start a new session and point it at any folder.
Per-terminal command menu — one-click buttons for the full slash-command set, with drag-to-reorder, an alphabetical list of the rest, and an apply-to-all toggle.
Hands-free flow — auto-disable the mic on send, auto-switch between Speak and Listen, and read intermediate progress while Claude works.
Tuned for the IDE — matches the Visual Studio theme, docks like any tool window, and remembers your layout between sessions.
Getting started
Install the extension and restart Visual Studio.
Open the panel from Tools → Claude Speak (also under View → Other Windows).
Dock it where you like, pick a working directory, and start a session.
Requires the Claude Code CLI to be installed and on your PATH (the panel launches claude for you).
