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.

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 https://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, in the form https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip-voices/issues/new?template=submit-voice.yml , 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 community-voices . 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 pause, 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 https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip/blob/main/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 or aplay , or Windows through PowerShell new: tell us https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip/issues how it sounds . - In the desktop app: + → Plugins → Add marketplace DoubleV840/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 in tools/make sounds.py https://github.com/DoubleV840/blip/blob/main/tools/make sounds.py . 2. Run python3 tools/make sounds.py . 3. Test with claude plugin test . , try it with claude --plugin-dir . , and open a pull request.