TalkToMe

TalkToMe is an open-source macOS app for voice calls with AI agents.

The idea is simple: instead of opening a separate voice assistant and losing all the context your coding agent already has, you ask the agent you are already working with to call you.

Tell it:

Call me with TalkToMe.

Your Mac rings. You answer, start talking, and your speech is sent back into the same agent session.

The agent keeps its existing:

• conversation history
• model
• tools
• files
• project context

TalkToMe does not provide another LLM. It is the voice layer between you and the agent that is already doing the work.

Why I built it

Typing is great when I know exactly what I want changed.

Voice is much better when I am still thinking through the problem.

I might want to talk through an architecture, explain why an implementation feels wrong, or work through a half-formed idea without turning it into a carefully written prompt first.

TalkToMe makes that possible without moving the conversation into another app or starting from zero.

How it works

1. You ask your coding agent to call you.
2. The agent runs the TalkToMe command with its session ID.
3. TalkToMe rings on your Mac.
4. You answer and speak normally.
5. Your speech is transcribed and sent into the existing agent session.
6. The agent's response is spoken back to you.

When the call ends, the agent session continues exactly where it was.

Agent support

TalkToMe currently supports connection paths for:

• Codex
• Claude Code
• Hermes Agent
• OpenClaw
• other agents that can run shell commands

Codex has the most direct integration, while other agents can use TalkToMe's cooperative connection flow.

Speech

You can run much of the speech stack locally.

For speech-to-text, TalkToMe supports Whisper.

For text-to-speech, you can use:

• macOS system voices
• Kokoro
• ElevenLabs

TalkToMe also uses a small local turn-detection model to decide when you have finished speaking, so the interaction feels less like push-to-talk and more like a conversation.

Designed to stay out of the way

TalkToMe is a menu-bar app rather than another full-screen AI interface.

The coding agent is already where the work happens. TalkToMe just gives that agent another way to reach you.

The project is early, macOS-first, and open source.