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The Hunt for Claude October

Developer DoubleV840 released Blip, a Claude Code plugin that types out Claude's replies letter by letter with a sound blip for each letter, installable via `/plugin install blip --marketplace DoubleV840/blip`. Blip ships nine built-in voices (soft, classic, nes, bubble, typewriter, robot, deep, chirp, critter) plus community-submitted voices hosted at blip.ivwi.fr, and its commands run locally with no model call or tokens; only community voice downloads use the network. The plugin requires a recent Claude Code, tested on version 2.1.322, whose plugin API is in early access and may change.

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The Hunt for Claude October
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Claude Code talks like an RPG character.

Replies type out letter by letter, with a blip for every letter.

Make Blip yours: every voice can be one the community made.

In Claude Code:

/plugin install blip --marketplace DoubleV840/blip

Then ask Claude anything, and listen.

To get new versions on their own: /plugin → Marketplaces → blip → Enable auto-update. Or update by hand with claude plugin update blip@blip.

Anyone can give Blip a new voice, and everyone can use it.

| 🎧 Listen | Every voice plays on blip.ivwi.fr , with search and themes. | | ⬇️ Install | /blip voice <name> in Claude Code, or pick one in the/blip voice menu. | | 🎤 Share yours | One short sound you made ( .wav ,.mp3 ,.m4a …), zipped, inthe form , or type/blip share . Checked automatically, live within minutes. | | 🚩 Report | /blip report <name> : three reports remove a voice, everywhere. |

Command
/blip voice Pick a voice, ↑↓ to listen
/blip speed slow · normal · fast Text speed
/blip volume 0-100 Volume
/blip pitch -12..12 Higher or lower voice
/blip on · off Sound on or off
/blip typewriter on · off Letter by letter, or Claude Code's usual display
/blip custom <file.wav> Your own sound, just for you
/blip share Share your sound with everyone
/blip report <name> Report a community voice
/blip test Demo
/blip help Everything else

Tab completes everything after /blip: options, voices, speeds. Send a message to skip the rest of a reply, like in a game.

soft (default) · classic · nes · bubble · typewriter · robot · deep · chirp · critter

Plus every community voice.

How it works #

  • Claude's reply is held while it is written, then typed out above the prompt at 30 frames a second, and settles into the conversation once whole.
  • All the blips of a reply are mixed into one sound before it starts: each on its letter, never overlapping, slightly detuned.
  • Commas and sentence ends , spaces stay silent, questions rise.
  • Commands run locally: no model call, no tokens. Only community voices use the network, to download them.
  • Voices are synthesized from scratch by tools/make_sounds.py .

Requirements #

  • A recent Claude Code (tested on 2.1.322). Its plugin API is in early access and may change.
  • macOS, Linux with pw-play ,paplay oraplay , or Windows through PowerShell (new:tell us how it sounds).
  • In the desktop app: + →Plugins →Add marketplaceDoubleV840/blip →** Add plugin** .

Add a built-in voice (contributors) #

For your own sound, /blip custom is enough, and /blip share puts it on the community site. Built-in voices are synthesized by a script:

  1. Add a voice to VOICES intools/make_sounds.py .
  2. Run python3 tools/make_sounds.py .
  3. Test with claude plugin test . , try it withclaude --plugin-dir . , and open a pull request.
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