Heard is a macOS voice layer for your agentic workflows. It connects to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor and turns their output into intelligent summaries you can hear. Full commentary when your eyes are elsewhere, or silence until something errors or needs a decision. With agents run in parallel, Heard summarizes at the project level, so you hear where the work stands, not five terminals talking over each other. Pair your phone and it comes with you. Open source, free for personal use.
Hey PH, Kelly here, maker and founder of Heard.
The last two years went into making it easier to talk to agents. Voice input, better prompts, better context. Nobody worked on the other half. Agents still answer in scrolling text you have to sit and watch.
Heard is that half. It listens to your Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor sessions, understands what matters in context, and turns the useful parts into concise, natural speech. A useful update, not a transcript.
It matters most once you're running more than one agent. Parallelism is free now, attention isn't, and every agent you add makes the terminal a worse instrument for keeping up. So each agent gets its own voice, and a swarm gets summarized at the project level. One clear story instead of five windows you can't watch at once.
With Heard Power you can pair your phone and keep the session going from the kitchen, a walk, anywhere you're not at the desk. Hear what's happening, answer by voice, approve the next step in one tap.
Open source, free for personal use.
I run Claude Code daily and the output itself was never the problem, it's zoning out halfway through a long scrolling session and missing the part that actually mattered. Reading holds my attention for maybe 30 seconds before I start skimming. Hearing usually doesn't do that to me. I am definitely going to try this one.
heard is awesome :) love the audio first human computer interaction approach to agent work. this is the future!
Voice as the interface to a coding agent is more interesting than it first sounds, because the hard part isn't dictation, it's knowing when to interrupt. If I'm talking while the agent is mid-task, does it queue what I said, or does it treat it as a course correction and abandon the current step? Curious where you landed on that.
Huge congrats on the launch, @itskellysun Solving the outbound half of the agent interface is such an underrated vector. qq can we adjust a 'verbosity slider' to only hear critical errors instead of full updates?
Oh this is such a nice idea, I always miss the moment when my agent is waiting on a permission prompt and lose 20 minutes for nothing. Love that there is a near silent mode too. Does the phone pairing let you actually approve things by voice while you are away from the desk, or is it more of a listen only thing?
Congrats on the launch. The multi agent part caught my eye, giving each agent its own voice identity is a smart way to keep track of parallel sessions without staring at four terminals. How does the filtering decide what counts as a critical event versus routine noise, is that configurable per project?
The verbosity dial and the project-level summary are the right primitives for parallel work. Before I'd commit to this for real sessions, I need to understand where the session state actually lives: when the context pass holds state across the session, is that in-process memory that disappears when Heard closes, persisted locally on disk, or synced to a server? Open source positioning suggests local, but the Heard Power phone-pairing feature makes me wonder if there is a relay component once you go beyond single-machine.
This is such a smart approach to staying in the loop without constant notifications.
With multiple agents running in parallel, how does Heard decide which project's update to summarize first if two things happen at the same time?
Also curious if the prioritization logic is customizable.
the project-level summarization across parallel agents is the part that stands out to me, most voice/notification tools just narrate everything and become noise. when it decides what counts as "something errors or needs a decision" across say 4 parallel Claude Code sessions, is that heuristic hardcoded or does it learn what you personally care about over time?
Love the idea of replacing terminal watching with listening. does Heard keep historical voice summaries for later review? or is the experience designed to be entirely live?
Congrats! what inspired you to focus on spoken summaries instead of visual dashboards?was there a specific pain point that pushed you in this direction?
Congratulations on shipping! The idea of each agent having its own voice is clever.can users assign custom voices to different agents?seems like that would make them easier to distinguish.
Congratulations on the launch! 🚀 Really curious about the technical side. how much system overhead does Heard add while monitoring multiple agents? is performance impacted much?
how does Heard avoid interrupting users with unnecessary voice updates? can notification frequency be configured?
Congratulations! this feels like a productivity upgrade rather than just another AI wrapper. how does Heard handle long running coding sessions? does the quality of summaries improve over time?
congratulations! can i respond entirely by voice while away from my desk? or do some actions still require opening the desktop app?
Congrats on the launch! How are you guys attributing events to the right agent when they're separate processes, parsing stdout or tapping the hooks Claude Code and Codex expose?
Congratulations on the launch! The voice first experience sounds interesting. can Heard recognise when multiple agents are working on the same task? how are overlapping updates handled?
About Heard on Product Hunt
“Give Claude Code and Codex a voice”
Heard launched on Product Hunt on July 25th, 2026 and earned 271 upvotes and 71 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Heard is a macOS voice layer for your agentic workflows. It connects to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor and turns their output into intelligent summaries you can hear. Full commentary when your eyes are elsewhere, or silence until something errors or needs a decision. With agents run in parallel, Heard summarizes at the project level, so you hear where the work stands, not five terminals talking over each other. Pair your phone and it comes with you. Open source, free for personal use.
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