Claude Speak for VS Code

A voice console for Claude Code: speak or type prompts, hear Claude's replies read aloud with word highlighting, run the Claude CLI in embedded terminals, and manage sessions — inside VS Code.

Open it with Claude Speak: Open from the Command Palette.

This extension shares its entire UI (speak.html / term.html) with the Claude Speak standalone app and the Visual Studio 2026 extension; the host layer is Node (node-pty terminals, the same session-scoped Claude Code hook under a vscode host key, so it never collides with the other hosts' queues).

Current scope

• Claude terminal tabs (node-pty ConPTY), Speak box send, spoken replies + mid-turn narration, Code/Files tabs fed by the hook, question popup, terminal search, per-page preferences.
• Files open in VS Code's own editor.
• Microphone dictation is not yet wired (VS Code webviews restrict mic access); the Listen side (TTS) is fully functional.