microclaw-streams 0.1.0

Push-to-talk voice conversations powered by Whisper and Claude Code

MicroClaw Streams

Voice calls with Claude – talk it out. Voice in, voice out. Push-to-talk voice conversations powered by Whisper and Claude Code.

Whisper runs entirely on your machine — no audio is sent to the cloud. Only the transcribed text is sent to Claude.

~490 lines of Python across 5 modules, with just three dependencies: numpy, sounddevice, and openai-whisper.

Setup

pip install -e .

Requires Claude Code to be installed and authenticated.

Usage

microclaw-streams
microclaw-streams --model turbo
microclaw-streams --resume <session-id>
microclaw-streams -l sv -e high

Options

Flag	Description	Default
-m, --model	Whisper model size (tiny, base, small, medium, large, turbo)	base
-l, --language	Transcription language (e.g. en, sv, de)	auto
-e, --effort	Claude effort level (low, medium, high, max)	low
-r, --resume	Resume a previous Claude Code session by its session ID	—
--fp16	Use half-precision inference (requires CUDA GPU)	off

Controls

Key	Action
Enter	Start/stop recording
A	Record with auto-approve (allows edits, writes, bash)
W	Record with web search enabled
T	Type a message instead of speaking
E	Cycle effort level
L	Cycle transcription language
Space	Interrupt speech output

How it works

1. Record — Press Enter to start recording, press Enter again to stop
2. Transcribe — Whisper transcribes your speech locally
3. Respond — Claude Code processes your message and streams a response
4. Speak — Voice output is spoken via macOS say command

Requirements

• macOS (uses say for text-to-speech)
• Python 3.10+
• Claude Code CLI