{"slug": "the-hunt-for-claude-october", "title": "The Hunt for Claude October", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "**Claude Code talks like an RPG character.**\n\nReplies type out letter by letter, with a blip for every letter.\n\n**Make Blip yours: every voice can be one the community made.**\n\nIn Claude Code:\n\n```\n/plugin install blip --marketplace DoubleV840/blip\n```\n\nThen ask Claude anything, and listen.\n\nTo get new versions on their own: `/plugin` → **Marketplaces** → **blip** → **Enable auto-update**. Or update by hand with `claude plugin update blip@blip`.\n\nAnyone can give Blip a new voice, and everyone can use it.\n\n| 🎧 **Listen** | Every voice plays on **[blip.ivwi.fr](https://blip.ivwi.fr)** , with search and themes. | \n| ⬇️ **Install** | `/blip voice <name>` in Claude Code, or pick one in the`/blip voice` menu. | \n| 🎤 **Share yours** | One short sound you made ( `.wav` ,`.mp3` ,`.m4a` …), zipped, in[the form](https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip-voices/issues/new?template=submit-voice.yml) , or type`/blip share` . Checked automatically, live within minutes. | \n| 🚩 **Report** | `/blip report <name>` : three reports remove a voice, everywhere. | \n\n| Command |  | \n|---|---|\n| `/blip voice` | Pick a voice, ↑↓ to listen | \n| `/blip speed slow · normal · fast` | Text speed | \n| `/blip volume 0-100` | Volume | \n| `/blip pitch -12..12` | Higher or lower voice | \n| `/blip on · off` | Sound on or off | \n| `/blip typewriter on · off` | Letter by letter, or Claude Code's usual display | \n| `/blip custom <file.wav>` | Your own sound, just for you | \n| `/blip share` | Share your sound with everyone | \n| `/blip report <name>` | Report a community voice | \n| `/blip test` | Demo | \n| `/blip help` | Everything else | \n\nTab completes everything after `/blip`: options, voices, speeds. Send a message to skip the rest of a reply, like in a game.\n\n`soft` (default) · `classic` · `nes` · `bubble` · `typewriter` · `robot` · `deep` · `chirp` · `critter`\n\nPlus every [community voice](#community-voices).\n\n## **How it works**\n\n- 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.\n- All the blips of a reply are mixed into one sound before it starts: each on its letter, never overlapping, slightly detuned.\n- Commas and sentence ends pause, spaces stay silent, questions rise.\n- Commands run locally: no model call, no tokens. Only community voices use the network, to download them.\n- Voices are synthesized from scratch by [`tools/make_sounds.py`](https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip/blob/main/tools/make_sounds.py) .\n\n## **Requirements**\n\n- A recent Claude Code (tested on 2.1.322). Its plugin API is in early access and may change.\n- macOS, Linux with `pw-play` ,`paplay` or`aplay` , or Windows through PowerShell (new:[tell us](https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip/issues) how it sounds).\n- In the desktop app: **+** →**Plugins** →**Add marketplace**`DoubleV840/blip` →** Add plugin** .\n\n## **Add a built-in voice (contributors)**\n\nFor your own sound, `/blip custom` is enough, and `/blip share` puts it on the community site. Built-in voices are synthesized by a script:\n\n1. Add a voice to `VOICES` in[`tools/make_sounds.py`](https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip/blob/main/tools/make_sounds.py) .\n2. Run `python3 tools/make_sounds.py` .\n3. Test with `claude plugin test .` , try it with`claude --plugin-dir .` , and open a pull request.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hunt-for-claude-october", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip", "published_at": "2026-11-12 23:39:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-12 23:50:55.774464+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["DoubleV840", "Blip", "Claude Code", "Anthropic", "blip.ivwi.fr"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hunt-for-claude-october", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hunt-for-claude-october.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hunt-for-claude-october.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hunt-for-claude-october.jsonld"}}