Talk to Claude Code with your voice on a Mac

Claude Code lives in a terminal. That is the right call for a coding agent — it sits where your project already is — but it means two things are missing: it cannot hear you, and there is nothing on screen telling you what it is doing while you are looking at something else.

Minnie adds both. She is a small character who floats above your desktop, listens when you talk to her, and drives the Claude Code CLI you already have installed.

What you need first

Minnie does not ship an AI model and does not resell one. She drives the agent CLI on your machine, and that CLI carries its own authentication — so whatever you already pay Anthropic is the whole bill. Nothing extra.

That means one prerequisite:

• Install Claude Code and log in once, so claude works in your terminal.
• Run Minnie. Her onboarding walks through the rest.

If you already use Claude Code daily, you are done in about a minute.

Saying something

Talk to her the way you would type into the terminal — “check why the tests are failing”, “commit this”. The speech goes to Claude Code as a prompt, and the agent does the work in your project the same way it always has.

Voice recognition runs on device by default. Your microphone audio does not leave your Mac.

The part that took the longest: permission

An agent that can run bash on your machine cannot be a black box. Claude Code already asks before it runs a tool — but that prompt appears in a terminal you may not be looking at, and if you have walked away it just sits there.

So Minnie says it out loud. When the agent wants to run something, she surfaces it in a speech-cloud above her head and asks — “I want to run pytest. Ok?” — and waits for you.

Two decisions there that we would defend:

Denying is not a failure. Saying no is a normal answer, not an error state. She takes it as a course correction and moves on, because a tool you feel bad about refusing is a tool you stop refusing.

Nothing is pre-approved by default. It would be easy to ship a “trust everything” mode as the default and look faster in a demo. An agent with shell access on your primary machine is not the place for that.

Voice consent is a Claude Code feature specifically. Gemini CLI, Codex and custom command-line agents work with Minnie too, but they run more autonomously — their permission models are not wired into the speech-cloud yet.

Connecting your own tools

Coding is not the only thing you can ask for. Minnie ships a one-click MCP catalog — GitHub, Notion, Slack, Postgres, Figma — plus custom servers, so the same voice request can reach the tools your work actually lives in.

Trying it

Minnie is in open beta right now: free, Apple Silicon, a direct download rather than the App Store.

Download the beta →