I’ve been working with Claude Code by voice for a few months now, and honestly I find it hard to work with agents any other way. The basic setup: local speech to text (Whisper) and local text to speech (Kokoro), so nothing leaves my machine. It’s all baked into a skill that understands conversational flow. It detects when I stop talking, transcribes what I said, acts on it, then talks back and listens again. I don’t touch the keyboard for most of a session. Recently I expanded it. Now I talk to one “chief” agent, and it delegates the real work to other Claude sessions running in Orca. The chief doesn’t write code itself. It hands each task to a worker with a written spec, tracks what everyone is doing, and tells me when something lands. That way I’m not fragmented across a bunch of different agent tabs. I have one conversation, and the chief keeps track of the rest. A few things that made it work for me: It speaks up on its own. When a worker finishes, the chief just announces it. When a worker needs a decision, it asks me out loud and waits. If I don’t answer (because I’m in a meeting or heads down), it doesn’t drop the question. It parks it on a list of “waiting on parskier426” items so nothing gets lost. Push to talk and mute keys. I have Stream Deck buttons to start talking, and to mute the mic or speaker for meetings. When muted, it falls back to notifications and typed prompts. Standing rules. I tell the chief things once (“don’t push to an MR that’s already approved,” “don’t post review requests for me”) and it adds them to its own rules and puts them in every worker’s spec. Part of why this clicks for me: I have ADHD. Having it speak up when an agent needs something, and ask me direct questions, keeps me focused. Before this, with 5 or more tasks running at once, I was constantly context switching between tabs to answer questions and steer agents, and it got taxing fast. Now the context switching mostly happens on the chief’s side, not in my head. Does anyone else have a similar workflow? I’m curious what’s worked for you, whether that’s voice, an orchestrator agent, or something else entirely for running a lot of agents in parallel without burning out. submitted by /u/parkskier426
Originally posted by u/parkskier426 on r/ClaudeCode