{"kind":"guides","slug":"claude-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/claude-text-to-speech","title":"Claude Text to Speech: Can Claude Talk? | SuperClonica","description":"Can Claude do text to speech? Voice mode in the Claude apps, why Claude Code has none, and how to add TTS to Claude Code with hooks or MCP.","h1":"Claude text to speech: voice mode, and speech for Claude Code","intro":"Claude can talk in its apps: voice mode lets you speak to Claude and hear it answer. Claude Code, the terminal assistant, has no voice of its own.\n\nThis guide shows what voice mode does, and three ways to give Claude Code speech: an MCP server, a spoken alert when a task ends, and a free offline engine.","sections":[{"heading":"Voice mode in the Claude apps","paragraphs":["Voice mode is a beta feature of the Claude mobile apps, Claude Desktop and the web, on every plan. Click or tap the sound wave icon in a chat, pick a voice and talk; Claude answers aloud, and the transcript stays in your chat history. The voices are a small preset set, chosen in Settings, Capabilities, Voice, where the spoken language is set too. Voice conversations count toward your plan’s usage limits. It is made for conversation, not for producing audio files."]},{"heading":"Claude Code has no voice mode","paragraphs":["According to Claude’s help center, Claude Code and Cowork offer dictation but not voice mode: you can speak a prompt, but Claude Code does not read its answers aloud. Speech has to come from a tool you connect."]},{"heading":"Speech in Claude Code with an MCP server","paragraphs":["The SuperClonica MCP server gives Claude Code a speak tool with about 190 voices, from stock narrators to game and film characters. Create a free key on the speech API page and run: claude mcp add --transport http superclonica https://superclonica.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer sc_YOUR_KEY\". Then ask, for example: voice this paragraph in a calm narrator voice. Claude Code finds the voice and returns a link to the audio file. A free key voices 3 minutes a day."]},{"heading":"A spoken alert when Claude Code finishes","paragraphs":["Claude Code hooks run a command on events such as Stop, when Claude finishes a reply. Make a short clip once with the free engine: superclonica --text \"Done!\" --voice F2 --lang en --output done.wav, and put it in a sounds folder. Then add a Stop hook to settings.json: {\"hooks\": {\"Stop\": [{\"hooks\": [{\"type\": \"command\", \"command\": \"afplay ~/sounds/done.wav\"}]}]}}. On Linux use paplay instead of afplay; on Windows use powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer 'C:/sounds/done.wav').PlaySync(). Every finished task now says \"Done!\" in the voice you chose, offline."]},{"heading":"Fully offline speech","paragraphs":["The free SuperClonica engine runs on an ordinary processor: python -m pip install superclonica-cpu. Claude Code can run it as a terminal command, for example to voice a README or a whole chapter into MP3 with superclonica --text-file chapter.txt --voice M1 --lang en --output chapter.mp3. Nothing leaves your computer and there is no daily limit."]}],"faq":[{"question":"Can Claude do text to speech?","answer":"Yes, in its apps: voice mode lets Claude answer aloud. It does not export audio files; for files use an MCP server or a TTS engine."},{"question":"Can I change Claude’s voice?","answer":"In voice mode you choose from a small preset set of voices in Settings. Character or custom voices need another tool, such as the SuperClonica MCP server."},{"question":"Does Claude Code have text to speech?","answer":"Not built in: Claude Code offers dictation, not voice mode. Add speech with an MCP server, a hook or an offline engine."},{"question":"Is it free?","answer":"Voice mode is available on every Claude plan and counts toward its usage limits. The SuperClonica engine is free, and its MCP server gives 3 minutes a day with a free key."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine","api":"Get a free API key"},"sources":[{"label":"Claude Help Center: Use voice mode","url":"https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11101966-use-voice-mode"},{"label":"Claude Code: hooks reference","url":"https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks"},{"label":"Claude Code: connect to MCP servers","url":"https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp"}],"published":"2026-11-01","updated":"2026-11-01","pages":[{"slug":"coding-agent-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/coding-agent-text-to-speech","h1":"Text to speech for Codex, Cursor and VS Code"},{"slug":"tts-mcp-server","path":"/guides/tts-mcp-server","h1":"A text to speech MCP server: let your AI agent speak out loud"},{"slug":"text-to-speech-mcp-server","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-mcp-server","h1":"Text to speech MCP server: give your AI assistant a voice"},{"slug":"ollama-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/ollama-text-to-speech","h1":"Ollama text to speech: make your local model talk, fully offline"},{"slug":"custom-alexa-voice","path":"/guides/custom-alexa-voice","h1":"Custom Alexa voice: what works on Echo"},{"slug":"tesla-boombox-custom-sounds","path":"/guides/tesla-boombox-custom-sounds","h1":"Tesla Boombox custom sounds: make your car talk"},{"slug":"claude-read-aloud","path":"/guides/claude-read-aloud","h1":"Claude read aloud: voice mode and other ways to listen"},{"slug":"windows-speech-voices","path":"/guides/windows-speech-voices","h1":"Adding text to speech voices and speech packs in Windows"},{"slug":"amazon-polly-alternative","path":"/guides/amazon-polly-alternative","h1":"An Amazon Polly alternative for apps that talk a lot"},{"slug":"playht-alternative","path":"/guides/playht-alternative","h1":"A Play.ht alternative that runs offline"},{"slug":"local-llm-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/local-llm-text-to-speech","h1":"Text to speech for local LLMs and chatbots"},{"slug":"free-text-to-speech-api","path":"/guides/free-text-to-speech-api","h1":"Free text to speech API: no key, no quota, your own server"}],"related":[{"slug":"text-to-speech","path":"/text-to-speech","h1":"Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer"},{"slug":"supertonic","path":"/compare/supertonic","h1":"Supertonic vs SuperClonica: same model, faster and cleaner"},{"slug":"fish-audio","path":"/compare/fish-audio","h1":"Fish Audio and Fish Speech vs SuperClonica"},{"slug":"omnivoice","path":"/compare/omnivoice","h1":"OmniVoice vs SuperClonica: more languages or more speed"},{"slug":"qwen3-tts","path":"/compare/qwen3-tts","h1":"Qwen3-TTS vs SuperClonica for local text-to-speech"},{"slug":"voxcpm","path":"/compare/voxcpm","h1":"VoxCPM 2 vs SuperClonica: studio sound or CPU speed"},{"slug":"f5-tts","path":"/compare/f5-tts","h1":"F5-TTS vs SuperClonica: zero-shot cloning or fast CPU speech"},{"slug":"elevenlabs","path":"/compare/elevenlabs","h1":"An offline alternative to ElevenLabs"},{"slug":"kokoro","path":"/compare/kokoro","h1":"Kokoro TTS vs SuperClonica: two small models for local speech"},{"slug":"piper","path":"/compare/piper","h1":"Piper TTS vs SuperClonica: tiny devices or custom voices"},{"slug":"xtts","path":"/compare/xtts","h1":"Coqui XTTS-v2 vs SuperClonica: a Coqui TTS alternative"},{"slug":"chatterbox","path":"/compare/chatterbox","h1":"Chatterbox TTS vs SuperClonica: instant cloning or a trained voice file"}]}