Heard documentation
Heard is a macOS voice layer for coding agents. It turns useful agent activity into concise spoken updates, so you can follow progress, decisions, failures, and completed work without watching every terminal.
Heard does not replace your coding agent. It adds an ambient voice layer to Claude Code, Codex, or another compatible command line workflow.
Start here
Download the managed app or build the open source engine, then hear your first useful event.
Set up Claude Code, Codex CLI, the Codex app, or another command line agent.
Decide whether Heard should give short signposts, fuller briefings, or only important interruptions.
See what stays on your Mac and what optional hosted services receive.
What Heard does
Heard is built around three ideas:
- Judgment instead of a transcript. Routine tool activity can stay quiet while decisions, blockers, failures, and completed work get airtime.
- Parallel work you can follow by ear. Heard ranks active sessions and gives them distinct voices so you can tell them apart.
- A full voice loop with Power. Listen to your agent, answer out loud, and dictate into any text field.
Choose a setup path
Use the managed app
Download Heard, sign in, and choose an integration. Heard manages the voice and narration services, so you do not need provider keys.
The managed app and open source engine are different setup paths. Choose one for your first session, then expand after the basic connection works.
Supported integrations
Continue with the quickstart, or go directly to Claude Code or Codex.