Voice Update

by pchalasani

Voice Update is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by pchalasani in claude-code-tools.

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Install Voice Update

Copy Voice Update into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/plugins/voice/skills/voice-update ~/.claude/skills/voice-update

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/voice/skills/voice-update/SKILL.md in pchalasani/claude-code-tools
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/voice-update
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Voice Update does

Voice Update uses a pocket-tts script to speak short, conversational summaries as spoken audio feedback. Use it when the agent finishes a task, is reminded by a Stop hook, or the user asks for a spoken update.

Voice Update is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Voice Update comes from a repository tagged claude-code, cli, cli-agent, code-agent and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Voice Update Skill

Provide spoken audio feedback to the user using pocket-tts.

When to Use

When finishing a task and a Stop hook reminds to give voice feedback
When the user explicitly asks for a spoken summary
When providing important status updates that benefit from audio

How to Use

Summarize what was accomplished in 1-2 short, conversational sentences
Call the say script with the summary text

Calling the Say Script

Use Bash to call the say script:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/say "Your summary here"

Example:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/say "I've fixed the bug in the login handler and added the unit tests."

With a specific voice:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/say --voice azure "Task completed successfully."

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Voice Update

What else does pchalasani publish alongside Voice Update?
Voice Update is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pchalasani/claude-code-tools, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Pattern, Agent Style and Avoid AI Writing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Voice Update does, and is maintained by pchalasani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pchalasani/claude-code-tools page.
How does Voice Update compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Voice Update ranks #880 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Voice Update against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.