Murmur

The voice layer for Claude Code. Give your agents a voice, dictate into any app, and watch every session as it runs.

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Local-first, private, and free · by Stratos House

Murmur's live Sessions observatory showing color-coded Claude Code sessions in real time

What's inside

A voice layer that respects your machine

Neural read-aloud, push-to-talk dictation, and a live window into every Claude Code session. No cloud, no telemetry.

Read-aloud neural voices

Hear your agent think. Natural Edge TTS plus fully offline Kokoro voices — clear, fast, free.

Edge TTS + Kokoro

Dictate into any app

One global hotkey turns speech into text anywhere — editor, terminal, browser, chat. No window switching.

Global hotkey

Live sessions observatory

Watch every Claude Code session as it runs. See what your agents are doing, in real time, in one place.

Live

Light & dark, refined

An interface that's easy on the eyes in any light. Considered typography, generous spacing, no clutter.

Native themes

Local-first & private

Nothing leaves your machine. Transcription and synthesis run entirely offline — your words stay yours.

On-device

Built for Claude Code

Designed around the way agents work — sessions, voice, and MCP-ready hooks that slot into your flow.

MCP-ready

A closer look

Designed for the way you work

Every surface is fast, quiet, and out of your way — so voice fits the flow you already have.

Hear your agents think

47 free neural voices plus fully offline Kokoro. Pick a voice, set the pace, and let Murmur read every reply aloud.

Edge neuralKokoro offlineNo API key
Murmur Read Aloud voice picker with neural and offline voices

Your whole setup, at a glance

The Overview is your control center — model, voice, post-processing, and history, all in one quiet dashboard.

On devicePrivateZero telemetry
Murmur Overview control center dashboard

Polished the moment you stop talking

One-click presets clean up every dictation — fix punctuation, tighten wording, or reshape it into an email or commit message. Runs on-device by default.

Apple IntelligenceCustom presetsOn device
Murmur Post Process refinement presets

Light & dark

Beautiful in either light

The same considered interface, whichever way you work. Switch themes from the rail or settings — Murmur follows.

Murmur Sessions in light theme
Light
Murmur Sessions in dark theme
Dark

How it works

Install once. Talk, listen, watch.

Murmur sits quietly in your menu bar and wires voice into everything you already do with Claude Code.

01

Install & grant access

Download the notarized macOS app, allow microphone and accessibility, and you're ready in under a minute.

02

Press to talk, anywhere

Hold your hotkey to dictate into any app, and let read-aloud voice every reply your agent sends back.

03

Keep watch

Open the observatory to follow every Claude Code session live — all on your own machine.

Free & open source

Download Murmur

The voice layer for Claude Code — local-first, private, and free. Built for Apple Silicon.

Download for macOS
Notarized by Apple, with auto-updates Apple Silicon · macOS 13+