u/diazzdv

Hey everyone! This is the first project I'm sharing here — and actually my first Reddit

post. I'm new to the community, so I'd appreciate your patience. If there's something I

could do better, I'm open to feedback.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia, and long stretches of text have always been difficult for me

to process. Coding agents often return very long answers, especially when I'm working

through a big PR or a complicated problem. I wanted a way to listen to those answers on my

NixOS machine instead of relying only on reading them.

I'm also studying English. I used to open Claude's web app to hear spoken English and

practice my listening skills, but I wanted to do that while working in my local terminal

too.

So I built SpeakHarness. It follows local sessions from OMP, Pi, Codex and Claude Code and

reads their answers aloud. It uses local Kokoro voices for English and Piper for Brazilian

Portuguese. It also tries to make Markdown easier to listen to — for example, it doesn't

recite code blocks character by character. There's a browser dashboard, a terminal reader,

and an optional OMP extension that speaks final replies automatically.

I've tested it on NixOS x86_64. ARM and macOS haven't been tested yet. Setup downloads the

voice models once; the transcripts aren't sent to a cloud TTS service.

Install:

nix profile add github:Matheuscara/speak-harness/v0.1.6

speakh setup

speakh web

I built this with AI coding assistance. It's still an early release, and I'd really value

feedback — especially from anyone who tries the installation or has ideas for making the

listening experience more useful