TalkiTo

TalkiTo lets developers talk, slack and whatsapp with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. It can be used as a command-line tool, a web extension, and as a Python library.

🚀 Quick Install

Option 1: One-liner Install Script (Recommended)

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robdmac/talkito/main/install.sh | bash

Option 2: PyPI

pip install talkito

Then just run:

talkito claude

Install for End Users

From Source (Stable)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/robdmac/talkito.git
cd talkito

# Create and activate virtual environment (recommended)
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install system dependencies (macOS)
brew install portaudio

# Install package (normal install - gets updates via git pull)
pip install .

# Run this in a directory you want to use claude with
talkito claude

Install for Developers

Editable Install (Development)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/robdmac/talkito.git
cd talkito

# Create and activate virtual environment (recommended)
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install system dependencies (macOS)
brew install portaudio

# Install in development mode (editable install)
pip install -e .

# Run this in a directory you want to use claude with
talkito claude

or for the web extension run as

talkito --mcp-sse-server

then go to chrome://extensions/ and load unpacked the extensions/chrome/ dir

Demo Video

AI Assistant Compatibility

AI Assistant	Method	Status
Claude Code	Terminal	Fully Supported
Codex Cli	Terminal	Fully Supported
bolt.new	Web Extension	Output Only
v0.dev	Web Extension	Output Only
replit.com	Web Extension	Output Only
Other agents	Terminal	In Progress

Run with Claude Code

run talkito claude

Run with Codex Cli

run talkito codex

Run as an MCP server

run talkito --mcp-server

Run the TalkiTo configuration menu

run talkito

Advanced Options

# Disable auto-skip to newer content (auto-skip is on by default)
talkito --dont-auto-skip-tts claude

# Use different TTS providers
talkito --tts-provider polly --tts-voice Matthew --tts-region us-west-2 echo "Hello with AWS"
talkito --tts-provider azure --tts-voice en-US-JennyNeural echo "Hello with Azure"
talkito --tts-provider gcloud --tts-voice en-US-Journey-F echo "Hello with Google"
talkito --tts-provider kittentts --tts-voice expr-voice-3-f echo "Hello with KittenTTS"
talkito --tts-provider kokoro --tts-voice af_heart echo "Hello with Kokoro (local)"
talkito --tts-provider piper --tts-voice en_US-lessac-medium echo "Hello with Piper (local)"
talkito --tts-provider neutts2e echo "Hello with NeuTTS (local)"

# Use different ASR providers
talkito --asr-provider gcloud --asr-language en-US claude
AZURE_SPEECH_KEY=... AZURE_SPEECH_REGION=eastus talkito --asr-provider azure claude
WHISPER_MODEL=small WHISPER_COMPUTE_TYPE=int8 talkito --asr-provider local_whisper claude
talkito --asr-language es-ES echo "Hola mundo"  # Spanish recognition