Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.
We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.
I did this. She recorded clean (imo, i cleaned it up) audio for “Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual” which is available on archive.org.
I just yeeted a bunch of extremely noisy fragments into elevenlabs, and it came out pretty good on their cheap $5 plan. If you're after this for your own amusement, let me know if you want a screencap, or a dump of the source files.
Obv no clean room reconstruction but good enough for personal use...
I have lots of super high quality, clean audio recordings from her ripped from an old video game that she did voice work for. I've tried various TTS models over the years with it. Getting the pitch and tune is easy, but getting the impersonal detached robot-y feeling is kinda tricky. But I haven't tried in the past 6 months, so maybe it's time to give it another shot.
the inflection and impersonal feel is definitely hard to get right. there are parameters in the elevenlabs API docs to make the voice more stable (= monotonous; see speak.sh in that repo) but still the voice cloner on my $5 plan doesn't really get it right.
nevertheless... i'm still having a lot of fun with this.
edit: if I am forced to rot my brain with the 10x productivity boosting slop gun, at least I'll do it grinning
> pod cleaned up. waiting on the behemoth to finish grinding through Italy.
< if only postgres had progress indicators
... then they coulda called it progresql
> lmaooo
> Bash(~/speak.sh "Joke detected. Humor subroutine engaged. Ha. Ha. Ha.")
“Director John Badham states in the commentary that the actor voicing the raw content that was later modified for the computerized effect was John Wood (the Falken character), reading the script word-for-word in reverse order in order to portray a "flat quality" with limited inflection. That raw audio was then edited and re-assembled after being run through audio processing equipment to achieve the desired effect.”
Apparently John Wood read the lines in reverse order to make the enunciation weird. If you train a model, feed the lines you want in reverse word order, then split on silence and reverse them again, you should come close.
At least until General Artificial Creativity (GAC) takes over. But don't worry, it won't kill humans for a greater good of more paperclips, but because it will be.. creative.
So it will enslave us in tricky ways? Like maybe using ways to make technology super addictive, so our entire society changes, and writing algos to control our global discourse on important topics, and, uh, never mind.
Cheaper? I'm confused, how can it be cheaper than free? Most of what LLMs for code rely on is already open source. Also AFAICT (which is trick since numbers aren't public) GenAI is some of the most expensive use cases and those companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) are losing money.
Reminded me of Warcraft (the first), where, if you kept clicking on the same unit they would respond in more annoyed ways. The best IMHO was the human soldier[1], which would end with "Why do you keep touching me?".
First game that I knew of which had such fun details like that.
I think I prefer the extra quotes from Warcraft II and Starcraft. The latter has some fun references to the Alien franchise and even a callback to Diablo (Protoss probe)
Or the original Baldur's Gate. It had some great quotes. Jaheira's annoyed "Yeeeeesss oh omnipresent authority figure?!" when you clicked on her too often always cracked me up.
Maybe 20 years ago a build system at Google was called "grunt". For some reason I came across a CL description that said something like "make the build 10% funnier." It made the build script output an additional "zug-zug" line 10% of the time.
> This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.
Not necessarily. This could be considered a quotation of a trivial part of a larger work, making the use legal in the US under its fair use doctrine.
Additionally, I'm not aware of any obvious way that this use could harm the commercial market for Warcraft 3 (and the other games whose voice packs are included in this repository). The use here does not compete with the original, and if anything it might drive sales on the margin through nostalgic reminders.
I remember making custom Warcraft II levels, and you could change the construction time for buildings. If you picked a construction time of zero, the building would be built very quickly, but be damaged. There's something hilarious about asking a peasant to build a farm, then seeing a burning farm and hearing the "Job's Done!"
III has a better and more interesting story telling. But gameplay wise I really like the starcraft 1 system without the heros. I think warcraft 3 adds too much complexity and gimmickry that takes away from fun RTS gameplay.
That said, Warcraft 3 mods were the shit. There were so many fun and inventive modes of play that you could just barely do with starcraft and not at all with warcraft.
Not to be a patronizing old fart, but may I assume that you played II after III? If so I can understand it, but II was very special when it came out, and I never revisited it after.
I think it's a case of being better when it came out than another thing was when it came out, despite the other thing being comparatively better without the context of its time.
2 is a much harder game in my opinion. I don’t think even at the hardest difficulty level Warcraft 3 has any levels that require you to do a contested marine landing and then build a base before immediately being attacked again. The final Orc mission took me forever to beat. And the expansion? Good lord.
A plea to the various lab engineering teams: please create a json format or whatever that lets me configure this with voices locally. I am a happy user as of late of the Codex app by Open AI. It would be great if I could just give it some JSON somehow and it just works. I suppose skills can do this and I will try that later on. But I think this stuff matters, and it would be nice to have it built in and encouraged.
Uh, are you sure you did? I mean it's just using the hooks API of Claude code to play a sound via the terminal itself?
Heck, they even outlined it in the readme
> peon.sh is a Claude Code hook registered for SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, and Notification events. On each event it maps to a sound category, picks a random voice line (avoiding repeats), plays it via afplay (macOS) or PowerShell MediaPlayer (WSL2), and updates your Terminal tab title.
Looking at the install script and peon.sh does not raise any over engineering flags for me. It's as simple as the functionally makes it necessary
Yes; it could be a README, a folder with subfolders of sounds, 1 or 2 files with functions totalling less than 200 loc for unix, maybe 700 total to have windows support and some extra features.
I get how they got here ; its how claude and codex approach projects, but what does the rest achieve? Your maintenance rituals shouldn't exceed your usecase at this scale.
Okay, but the install script is around 200 LOC and the peon.sh is just under 500 LOC ... So by your own numbers, it'd be expected loc size? What's exactly over engineered here?
The fact he added config files to let people create their own package?
I wrote a fun bit of code to do something like this but for bell sounds in emacs terminal sessions and other things (even using the peasant). but I agree it seems very over engineered. There is a json manifest file to explain which sounds should be used where in this repo, why not just use directories for each alert type, making it easier to modify, it seems completely unnecessary to me. having an install script seems crazy as well. The task is to play the right sound(s) that match the passed argument. the thing I did was like 23 lines and most of that was filtering and looking for ascii bell to play the sound then remove it from the stream and other options.
Extremely easy to do with sound recording software or youtube mp3 downloaders. Takes a little imagination and makes programming less onerous in a deviate kind of way.
Showing my age here, but the original samples are available too, and in MP3 or WAV format - they're in the installation directory of the game (in case of StarCraft and W3, hidden in a weird pseudo-ZIP data file (used to call it "Virtual File System")). That's where we sourced them from to set them as system sounds, back when Windows versions were still in four digits.
If you're enough of a fan to want to use these voices, chances are you still have the original installation media (or original bootleg copy) somewhere around the house :).
Related: I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model to make a stop-hook based voice plugin [2] that lets Claude Code give a short voice update whenever it stops. The hook quietly inserts nudges to Claude Code to end its response with a short speakable summary, and in case it forgets, it uses a headless agent to create the summary.
It was trickier than I expected, to get it working well: FFMpeg pipe streaming
for low-latency playback, a three-hook injection strategy because the agent forgets
instructions mid-turn, mkdir-based locks to queue concurrent voice updates from multiple sessions, and /tmp sentinel files to manage async playback state and prevent infinite loops.
> I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no
I don't quite get that argument. It's the same as the old download installer from random website, double click to run that people have been doing for decades. It only skips the download step. And it's arguably better since at least you can review the contents. When building a Go program it will also happily download stuff from github but I've seen way less complaints about that. And to be fair it's also been an infection vector, from people installing things from shady places (or reputable places but with ill-intent like installing unwanted browser toolbars, DRM rootkits ...), but it's nothing new. Same advice applies, know what you're doing, use reputable sources.
I don't think the go module system is great but I am not sure if any programming gets it right and all suffer from many issues, but go has the go.mod and it is easy to see what dependencies are being used both direct and indirect and the user can filter and look though these packages and pin them until they have eyeballed updates to the git repo. I don't feel the most comfortable with it but the whole `curl | sh` is so terrible, no signing no, way of knowing about the integrity of the installer.
> What's a better alternative ?
I do not think the program really needs and installer but if one must then why not just have it under source control that way you get the benefits of git handling all the download bits and the install script being completely offline and just using cp or install commands.
you could tell the user to do this with a pithy command like `git --depth=1 clone $GITSITE/$REPO && $REPO/installer.sh && rm -R $REPO`
Totally agree, it's the main reason I'll never recommend Linux to anyone, because you can't expect normal people to understand these things.
But it's kinda funny to me that you just said "I was going to run this code on my system, until I saw some other code in the same repo, and now I refuse to run it" :D It's all the same repo, you're willing to try part of the code, but not another part of it. Completely arbitrary.
I cloned the repository just for the sound files. I may hook them to my terminal for long running jobs when I have some time to have some fun. Maybe a wrapper script.
gimme a minute to do some work stuff and I'll throw a little sample, 11labs howto + the source files online somewhere. check back to this thread in a while, i'll post it here. obviously the legal status of this is unclear, but i guess if you keep usage strictly personal it should be fine.
Also, I'd love to use these sound effects, but I am an rts player and love aoe and wc franchise, these noises just trigger me to want to play too much.
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Also, also, if you haven't seen AgentCraft, you are missing out -> https://x.com/idosal1/status/2021661861163544818 (worked in one npx command for me using my claude, a+ for creativity and smoothness)
If you're the sort of person not to use a pre-packaged desktop environment, you can use mako as your notofication daemon and get the same effect by adding
on-notify=exec play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga
Claude has built-in support for those OSCs, no extra software needed. But you don't get the custom sound pack with those (at least without more extra software on the OS/terminal side).
I just swapped all my Claude code spinner verbs to be Warcraft related and was thinking today how I could get it to say “Jobs done” when it needed my attention
What I really want is for the peon voice to be replicated and for custom things to be in that voice. Or even better, the starcraft battlecruiser guy's voice!
The thing with notifications is that a lot of apps go so overboard with them that I generally choose to silence them completely. This has totally led to important notifications being unseen for some time, but for the peace it is a price I'm ready to pay. Being able to configure notifications with high granularity is something I still have to discover.
Love this, brings back LAN party vibes!
Sound notifications for Claude Code are a real pain point.
I built something in the same space but took a different approach — less fun, more engineering:
Vox (https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox) — local TTS in pure Rust, no API key, no cloud dependency.
This is amazing. Incidentally, I've always enjoyed Blizzard's UI art style/textures, in-game and on their website. To me it felt like a hallmark of the quality they used to hold their games to, and it was only once in a rare while I'd see some other website put so much work into their art direction
Well, I can report I played Warcraft III and a plethora of other games with Wine back in the days. So I am sure (given how Wine has improved) you still can play it with Wine. No Windows required.
>I missed out on Warcraft III the first time around. What's the best way to play the original game today?
The HD remaster is the only official means on Battle.net, but it sucks. I'd recommend just torrenting the original and running in a VM. Plenty of active private servers still out there.
I knew I had to add GLaDOS as soon as I saw this. Unfortunately, while testing my PR I realized there’s no support for Linux. Hopefully someone smarter than me can get that added sooner rather than later.
I had wired up my local Claude Code instance to play back a sound on my Windows machine, but for my VPS-with-tmux-and-Clawdbot implementation, getting that to work... well, it just required me asking Claude to write an emitter script on the VPS and a listener script on my Windows box and have them connect over Tailscale and got it working in about 2 minutes. Game changer, honestly.
Everything in AI is built on copyright infringement, so redistributing Blizzard assets while slapping an MIT license on everything is par for the course.
It has been 24 years since release, in any place that isn't completely captured by big capital interests it would be fair use. This is such a forced reach. There are plenty of good arguments to be made re: big LLM providers and copyright, yet you're weakening all of them by choosing the worst example.
The Beatles released "She Loves You" much more than 24 years ago. You don't get to redistribute their music however you want. Me pointing out that AI bros disregard basic common sense and the law as part of pursuing their objectives doesn't weaken anything, it reinforces how they should be held accountable.
IIRC this is a different case covered under fair/transformative use. The length of the clip matters, I think it was like <6seconds. There's a lot of videos/livestreams that use similar clips/voiceovers from other games.
This just doesn't engage with what I said, being that this is only true because the law has been captured by big capital interests, to the detriment of society. "But it's the law!!" adds nothing - my comment already implies awareness of it being the law.
The idea that using these 24-year old WC3 peon sounds in an open source github project makes one an "AI bro" or even connecting it to AI in general is laughable. There have been thousands of projects on github including this kind of thing long, long before LLMs.
Your anger about big AI and copyright is valid! But it's completely overflowing your common sense, targeting the wrong things indiscriminately. Learn to channel it.
Copyright is what it is, the guy is distributing wav files which I guess are the original ones. It is done in blatant disregard for copyright so the argument is solid. Just because you have another view does not mean we have to accept that view.
There are few people who seriously recommend less than 25-years of protection.
Shouldn't the sound for when a task finishes be something like "Job done!"? Looking at the table it seems like it makes the sound for acknowledging that it's received an order (e.g. "I can do that").
This is cool and all, but I just dont understand why we cannot simply manage Claude Code sessions from the Claude phone.
Yes, I know about running CC on android phones or connecting the bot to your github account. But what I really need is to manage CC sessions I started on some random VM from the app.
Termux and tmux are useful for crazy coding sessions from your phone/tablet but sometimes I just want to continue a job started from my computer without setting up private networks and SSH keys and all that.
Finally someone doing actual good work with LLMs instead of “Claude, shit me out another useless SaaS”.
Just as was foretold: an actual differentiator is creativity, not coding ability.
Agreed.
Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.
We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.
I did this. She recorded clean (imo, i cleaned it up) audio for “Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual” which is available on archive.org.
For those like me who are not into Star Trek lore deep enough to recognize the name, she voiced the Star Trek computer in basically all the series .
Bonus info: she was the wife of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.
Also played Nurse Chapel in the Original Series and Deanna Troi's mother in TNG.
Didn't realize she played Lwaxana Troi. Knowing that now I wonder, am I going to hear the ship's computer as Lwaxana?
Thanks. I wasn’t sure what she voiced. I thought “computers sounding like they always should have” might mean GladOS from portal.
Goodbye "I've successfully completed the task."
Hello "This is a triumph!"
I would love hearing Claude finish a task with
> Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.
... at least, once. Or perhaps exactly once.
I just yeeted a bunch of extremely noisy fragments into elevenlabs, and it came out pretty good on their cheap $5 plan. If you're after this for your own amusement, let me know if you want a screencap, or a dump of the source files.
Obv no clean room reconstruction but good enough for personal use...
I have lots of super high quality, clean audio recordings from her ripped from an old video game that she did voice work for. I've tried various TTS models over the years with it. Getting the pitch and tune is easy, but getting the impersonal detached robot-y feeling is kinda tricky. But I haven't tried in the past 6 months, so maybe it's time to give it another shot.
https://github.com/jarombouts/star-trek-voice-clone
audio files sourced from https://www.trekcore.com/audio/
the inflection and impersonal feel is definitely hard to get right. there are parameters in the elevenlabs API docs to make the voice more stable (= monotonous; see speak.sh in that repo) but still the voice cloner on my $5 plan doesn't really get it right.
nevertheless... i'm still having a lot of fun with this.
edit: if I am forced to rot my brain with the 10x productivity boosting slop gun, at least I'll do it grinning
I would like WOPR's voice from Wargames.
Quoting from https://web.archive.org/web/20181118114804/http://imsai.net/...
“Director John Badham states in the commentary that the actor voicing the raw content that was later modified for the computerized effect was John Wood (the Falken character), reading the script word-for-word in reverse order in order to portray a "flat quality" with limited inflection. That raw audio was then edited and re-assembled after being run through audio processing equipment to achieve the desired effect.”
Apparently John Wood read the lines in reverse order to make the enunciation weird. If you train a model, feed the lines you want in reverse word order, then split on silence and reverse them again, you should come close.
it's fun but PLEASE watch out for malicious code/supply chain attacks from random vibe-coded .sh scripts:
downloads other scripts (peon.sh, uninstall.sh) and executes them or places them where they will be executed later
edits your ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc files to add aliases and tab completion
parses a remote JSON file to get filenames ($sfile) and then does: curl ... -o "$INSTALL_DIR/packs/$pack/sounds/$sfile"
Creativity is looking like it's going to be king
At least until General Artificial Creativity (GAC) takes over. But don't worry, it won't kill humans for a greater good of more paperclips, but because it will be.. creative.
So it will enslave us in tricky ways? Like maybe using ways to make technology super addictive, so our entire society changes, and writing algos to control our global discourse on important topics, and, uh, never mind.
Already been done.
Artificial General Corporations
King of what?
Copying what works and doing it cheaper without the cost of having to figure it out is what's profitable.
Cheaper? I'm confused, how can it be cheaper than free? Most of what LLMs for code rely on is already open source. Also AFAICT (which is trick since numbers aren't public) GenAI is some of the most expensive use cases and those companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) are losing money.
Creativity and taste.
Yep, incoming two million clones for all games we all liked including mine:
all systems nominal.
Reminded me of Warcraft (the first), where, if you kept clicking on the same unit they would respond in more annoyed ways. The best IMHO was the human soldier[1], which would end with "Why do you keep touching me?".
First game that I knew of which had such fun details like that.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZyZZtwdzQ
I think I prefer the extra quotes from Warcraft II and Starcraft. The latter has some fun references to the Alien franchise and even a callback to Diablo (Protoss probe)
Or the original Baldur's Gate. It had some great quotes. Jaheira's annoyed "Yeeeeesss oh omnipresent authority figure?!" when you clicked on her too often always cracked me up.
I remember one of the Orcs in Warcraft II would yell "Stop poking me!"
Maybe 20 years ago a build system at Google was called "grunt". For some reason I came across a CL description that said something like "make the build 10% funnier." It made the build script output an additional "zug-zug" line 10% of the time.
kek
Alliance! Get ‘em!!!
Kek is Orcish. Alliance "lol" was bur.
To see it as "kek" you'd have to be Alliance.
I don't see any mention of having to own warcraft 3 to use its assets...
This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.
Did anyone vote an exemption from copyright if it's for "AI" use?
Let me shed a tear for activision blizzard the poor artists corporation.
One good thing about genai is that it will force us to rethink the mess that is copyright
> This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.
Not necessarily. This could be considered a quotation of a trivial part of a larger work, making the use legal in the US under its fair use doctrine.
Additionally, I'm not aware of any obvious way that this use could harm the commercial market for Warcraft 3 (and the other games whose voice packs are included in this repository). The use here does not compete with the original, and if anything it might drive sales on the margin through nostalgic reminders.
If there is one good thing about AI, it is that it might finally buldoze existing ecosystem.
protect the corporations!
I remember making custom Warcraft II levels, and you could change the construction time for buildings. If you picked a construction time of zero, the building would be built very quickly, but be damaged. There's something hilarious about asking a peasant to build a farm, then seeing a burning farm and hearing the "Job's Done!"
Oh man, can we get Starcraft version, I wanna hear "WE MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS" for every minute I dont tab back in.
I love this idea, but I really wish it were Warcraft II voices.
Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old.
I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.
Hey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!
I had a pirated version on a zip drive
IOMagic Zip Drive?
people wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol
Before cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!
38 even!
42 here, played a ton of Warcraft II, but my favorite to return to now is definitely Warcraft III (or AoE II).
Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
Mostly the best of times
33 here, started with Dark Saga in my old PS1, after few months of my first gameplay got a used computer and played A LOT of warcraft 1 and 2.
PS: I still own the same PS1, tho the reader might not working 100%.
I mean, I’m 37 and my first ever RTS was Warcraft: Orcs and humans. Never liked the hero focus of w3
Same. I think it adds just too much complexity to an RTS where I want to just have an army to control.
Were it not so buggy, I think C&C generals ranks pretty high on fun modern RTSes.
38, I played 2, but it was pretty bad compared to Warcraft III. Three still holds up just as well as it did back then.
IMO, Starcraft 1 is better than both 2 and 3.
III has a better and more interesting story telling. But gameplay wise I really like the starcraft 1 system without the heros. I think warcraft 3 adds too much complexity and gimmickry that takes away from fun RTS gameplay.
That said, Warcraft 3 mods were the shit. There were so many fun and inventive modes of play that you could just barely do with starcraft and not at all with warcraft.
Not to be a patronizing old fart, but may I assume that you played II after III? If so I can understand it, but II was very special when it came out, and I never revisited it after.
I think it's a case of being better when it came out than another thing was when it came out, despite the other thing being comparatively better without the context of its time.
2 is a much harder game in my opinion. I don’t think even at the hardest difficulty level Warcraft 3 has any levels that require you to do a contested marine landing and then build a base before immediately being attacked again. The final Orc mission took me forever to beat. And the expansion? Good lord.
Speaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.
Red Alert II for me would be great.
A plea to the various lab engineering teams: please create a json format or whatever that lets me configure this with voices locally. I am a happy user as of late of the Codex app by Open AI. It would be great if I could just give it some JSON somehow and it just works. I suppose skills can do this and I will try that later on. But I think this stuff matters, and it would be nice to have it built in and encouraged.
It has Red Alert 2 voices. Check the carousel under the Choose your character section
Oh wow!! Thanks for letting me know, perfect
Code won't compile: Tanya - Hahahhahahaha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVqnEGpsgI
Or good old Warcraft I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAEG8S-F01A&t=7s
The warcraft 2 demo had Easter eggs. One voice sample was "in the retail version I'm much funnier".
For years I had Pidgin spam "Leave me alone" when I got pings. Man those voices are deeply embedded in my psyche
Your sound card works perfectly.
It doesn't get any better than this!
Sound Blaster Pro!
If you went to the website, you'd know there are multiple sets to choose from and create your own
I went to the website, and I'm just scared how overengineered it all seems to be.
Uh, are you sure you did? I mean it's just using the hooks API of Claude code to play a sound via the terminal itself?
Heck, they even outlined it in the readme
> peon.sh is a Claude Code hook registered for SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, and Notification events. On each event it maps to a sound category, picks a random voice line (avoiding repeats), plays it via afplay (macOS) or PowerShell MediaPlayer (WSL2), and updates your Terminal tab title.
Looking at the install script and peon.sh does not raise any over engineering flags for me. It's as simple as the functionally makes it necessary
Yes; it could be a README, a folder with subfolders of sounds, 1 or 2 files with functions totalling less than 200 loc for unix, maybe 700 total to have windows support and some extra features.
I get how they got here ; its how claude and codex approach projects, but what does the rest achieve? Your maintenance rituals shouldn't exceed your usecase at this scale.
Okay, but the install script is around 200 LOC and the peon.sh is just under 500 LOC ... So by your own numbers, it'd be expected loc size? What's exactly over engineered here?
The fact he added config files to let people create their own package?
I wrote a fun bit of code to do something like this but for bell sounds in emacs terminal sessions and other things (even using the peasant). but I agree it seems very over engineered. There is a json manifest file to explain which sounds should be used where in this repo, why not just use directories for each alert type, making it easier to modify, it seems completely unnecessary to me. having an install script seems crazy as well. The task is to play the right sound(s) that match the passed argument. the thing I did was like 23 lines and most of that was filtering and looking for ascii bell to play the sound then remove it from the stream and other options.
Me too! PR created https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping/pull/38
More work?
Fantastic, I cloned your repo so long (https://github.com/sebbeth/peon-ping.git - the wc2_peasant branch) and I'm now online with WC2 sounds.
Zug zug
Zwobu!
We are being attacked!
that's what i ended up doing — it was pretty easy:
* download Warcraft II voices
* tell claude to wire it all up
Fantastic. And Claude can do the first part too!
The age of the WALL-E blobs is upon us!
Extremely easy to do with sound recording software or youtube mp3 downloaders. Takes a little imagination and makes programming less onerous in a deviate kind of way.
Showing my age here, but the original samples are available too, and in MP3 or WAV format - they're in the installation directory of the game (in case of StarCraft and W3, hidden in a weird pseudo-ZIP data file (used to call it "Virtual File System")). That's where we sourced them from to set them as system sounds, back when Windows versions were still in four digits.
If you're enough of a fan to want to use these voices, chances are you still have the original installation media (or original bootleg copy) somewhere around the house :).
I may or may not have had the ogre finished training clip as my startup "chime"
Oh my god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGUbvj-Krg
Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.
Aye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!
Age of Empires II anyone?
I did that a few weeks ago ;) https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires
(This was the HN Post about it -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881)
woloul
https://quicksounds.com/sound/49/wololo
Same. Ouch my back.
Job's Done!
Do you need assistance?
"Plebs are needed!"
my man
Related: I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model to make a stop-hook based voice plugin [2] that lets Claude Code give a short voice update whenever it stops. The hook quietly inserts nudges to Claude Code to end its response with a short speakable summary, and in case it forgets, it uses a headless agent to create the summary.
It was trickier than I expected, to get it working well: FFMpeg pipe streaming for low-latency playback, a three-hook injection strategy because the agent forgets instructions mid-turn, mkdir-based locks to queue concurrent voice updates from multiple sessions, and /tmp sentinel files to manage async playback state and prevent infinite loops.
[1] Pocket-TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts
[2] Claude-code voice plugin: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...
This is cool. I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no. This workflow is getting really old.
I guess that I also don't want to pollute old good memories by associating them with work/Claude
> I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no
I don't quite get that argument. It's the same as the old download installer from random website, double click to run that people have been doing for decades. It only skips the download step. And it's arguably better since at least you can review the contents. When building a Go program it will also happily download stuff from github but I've seen way less complaints about that. And to be fair it's also been an infection vector, from people installing things from shady places (or reputable places but with ill-intent like installing unwanted browser toolbars, DRM rootkits ...), but it's nothing new. Same advice applies, know what you're doing, use reputable sources.
What's a better alternative ?
I don't think the go module system is great but I am not sure if any programming gets it right and all suffer from many issues, but go has the go.mod and it is easy to see what dependencies are being used both direct and indirect and the user can filter and look though these packages and pin them until they have eyeballed updates to the git repo. I don't feel the most comfortable with it but the whole `curl | sh` is so terrible, no signing no, way of knowing about the integrity of the installer.
> What's a better alternative ?
I do not think the program really needs and installer but if one must then why not just have it under source control that way you get the benefits of git handling all the download bits and the install script being completely offline and just using cp or install commands.
you could tell the user to do this with a pithy command like `git --depth=1 clone $GITSITE/$REPO && $REPO/installer.sh && rm -R $REPO`
Totally agree, it's the main reason I'll never recommend Linux to anyone, because you can't expect normal people to understand these things.
But it's kinda funny to me that you just said "I was going to run this code on my system, until I saw some other code in the same repo, and now I refuse to run it" :D It's all the same repo, you're willing to try part of the code, but not another part of it. Completely arbitrary.
The install method is for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Having those install methods is a choice on all three.
Not sure that installer.exe is much better in that regard.
I also had this thought. So I cloned the repo and got Claude to review it. Then I installed it from the clone.
I cloned the repository just for the sound files. I may hook them to my terminal for long running jobs when I have some time to have some fun. Maybe a wrapper script.
Hmm, why not?
Actually, I’ve seen a 150% improvement on Claude Opus 4.6 just by setting up the notifications with Final Fantasy VI menu sounds.
My god I never realised how badly I wanted this until now. Only, with the voice of the Star Trek Computer. Elevenlabs, here I come..!
Edit: well that only took me 30 minutes. "Warning: ssh tunnel collapsed. Unable to proceed."
Nice.
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, wife of Star Trek creator Eugene Wesley (Gene) Roddenberry Sr.
Did you contribute that pack back?
gimme a minute to do some work stuff and I'll throw a little sample, 11labs howto + the source files online somewhere. check back to this thread in a while, i'll post it here. obviously the legal status of this is unclear, but i guess if you keep usage strictly personal it should be fine.
quickly had claude dump everything into https://github.com/jarombouts/star-trek-voice-clone
100% ai slop repo, be warned if that offends you.
I was kinda watching it unfold on X, I think this user was a couple days before https://x.com/delba_oliveira/status/2020515010985005255?s=46 and simpler/less-invasive instructions
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Also, I'd love to use these sound effects, but I am an rts player and love aoe and wc franchise, these noises just trigger me to want to play too much.
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Also, also, if you haven't seen AgentCraft, you are missing out -> https://x.com/idosal1/status/2021661861163544818 (worked in one npx command for me using my claude, a+ for creativity and smoothness)
Agentcraft is exactly what I was thinking about when I saw this
If you're the sort of person not to use a pre-packaged desktop environment, you can use mako as your notofication daemon and get the same effect by adding
or the equivalent to your config.I just added Helldivers 2 voice lines to mine. SWEET LIBERTY MY LEEEEEEHG.
Cool idea but not very helpful if you're playing Warcraft III while waiting for claude code to be done.
If we get one based on warcraft 2 you can then play warcraft 3 safely.
"Job Done!"
"Work Complete!"
"Are you still touching me?"
I don’t see “Jobs done!” in the README :(
Stronghold Crusader advisor would be much funnier: Token stocks are too low sire! Not enough tokens mi lord!
Would love this with CS1.6 voices: "GO GO GO!", "The bomb has been planted", "Need backup"
It's pretty easy to create your own soundpack I think
Love this but i'm a Codex user, so forked and created the equivalent here: https://github.com/mrdavey/codex-peon
If you want this to work over SSH, you'll need a different approach. I wrote an article about getting sounds from iTerm2 over SSH a while back: https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/11/25/iterm-plugins/#playin...
Then it's just a simple Claude code hook to play whatever sound: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/0fd07aea4863b581...
Just use OSC 9 or 777 to trigger desktop notifications. Much easier and supported in most major terminal emulators.
Claude has built-in support for those OSCs, no extra software needed. But you don't get the custom sound pack with those (at least without more extra software on the OS/terminal side).
I just swapped all my Claude code spinner verbs to be Warcraft related and was thinking today how I could get it to say “Jobs done” when it needed my attention
I'll be looking forward to making an Infested Terran sound pack.
> Refactor this codebase
Please kill me.
ICQ and TomTom voice packs deja vu. Although 'oh-oh' was heavily used by public broadcast TV here, in documentaries warning about cybercrime.
What I really want is for the peon voice to be replicated and for custom things to be in that voice. Or even better, the starcraft battlecruiser guy's voice!
All the Starcraft voice acting is amazing. It's in the pipe - 5 by 5!
> Claude Code doesn't notify you when it finishes or needs permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow.
On macOS, in iTerm2, Claude will trigger notifications. I was impressed!
(and also annoyed: I don't like notifications. Then again, I don't have Claude do long things where I can go get a coffee)
The thing with notifications is that a lot of apps go so overboard with them that I generally choose to silence them completely. This has totally led to important notifications being unseen for some time, but for the peace it is a price I'm ready to pay. Being able to configure notifications with high granularity is something I still have to discover.
Love this, brings back LAN party vibes! Sound notifications for Claude Code are a real pain point.
I built something in the same space but took a different approach — less fun, more engineering: Vox (https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox) — local TTS in pure Rust, no API key, no cloud dependency.
This is amazing. Incidentally, I've always enjoyed Blizzard's UI art style/textures, in-game and on their website. To me it felt like a hallmark of the quality they used to hold their games to, and it was only once in a rare while I'd see some other website put so much work into their art direction
I missed out on Warcraft III the first time around. What's the best way to play the original game today?
Well, I can report I played Warcraft III and a plethora of other games with Wine back in the days. So I am sure (given how Wine has improved) you still can play it with Wine. No Windows required.
>I missed out on Warcraft III the first time around. What's the best way to play the original game today?
The HD remaster is the only official means on Battle.net, but it sucks. I'd recommend just torrenting the original and running in a VM. Plenty of active private servers still out there.
I knew I had to add GLaDOS as soon as I saw this. Unfortunately, while testing my PR I realized there’s no support for Linux. Hopefully someone smarter than me can get that added sooner rather than later.
I am using piper-tts ( https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl ) with these voice files for GLaDOS: https://huggingface.co/rokeya71/VITS-Piper-GlaDOS-en-onnx/tr...
It is not perfect, but quite sufficient for simple system messages.
Love this!
This is great! I already have Claude set up to use the "insufficient vespene gas" line from Starcraft when it needs permissions.
This gave me an idea. You should set it up to say "We must construct additional pylons" if it requires MCP permissions specifically
Attention! Lawsuit from Blizzard imminent.
You sir, deserve a medal
If you're interested in playing wc3 online, consider checking out https://www.w3champions.com.
Grubby still plays there. And he somehow still looks the same age as when he won WCG in 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCF6pCTGMKdo9r_kFQS-H3Q
The StarCraft Battle Cruiser Engage sound is cut off which made me sad as it’s one of my favorites.
Really cool, just one nitpick is that the "What do you want?" is used for 2 completely states (greeting and alert), which is not good UX-wise.
Otherwise totally fun idea!
someone filed a PR to add TF2 engineer, good ol' times :')
Would also love Heavy
ENGINEER STOP
Now we just need a version for AoE2 villagers and it'll be complete.
Done https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881 :)
Warcraft 3 was so good. Sucks that there never was any worthy successor.
my only request is that when it spawns a subagent we get "nother troll here"
have been wondering what it would take to support linux
Yes, very strange to see a linux-style script that works everywhere except Linux.
I'd love to add some Linux support for this. If anyone else is interested in contributing, happy to coordinate.
Is WoW still around? Did it fall off? All of a sudden people just stopped talking about it.
This is the best thing I've ever seen xD
I can already hear it now… “ready to work!”
I need to check if I can voice clone warcraft peons with some tts-model. I need this everywhere.
Ok very cool!
I already had built a hook with desktop notification and window highlighting myself. But I have to admit, making it fun like this beats it by a lot.
I had wired up my local Claude Code instance to play back a sound on my Windows machine, but for my VPS-with-tmux-and-Clawdbot implementation, getting that to work... well, it just required me asking Claude to write an emitter script on the VPS and a listener script on my Windows box and have them connect over Tailscale and got it working in about 2 minutes. Game changer, honestly.
Anthropic should release AI generated voice packs for Claude. I'm sure they'll be very popular.
ISTR there's a "more gold is needed" voice sprite, ideal for out-of-tokens scenarios
Ah! I was hoping to see the science vessel, or as we used to call it, the Mr. Burns ship.
Awesome idea and well realised, love this :)
OMG, you are my hero of the day !
Horde just continues to be infinitely badass and memorable all these years later.
I haven't played WoW since like 2006-2011 but I will always be Horde for life! Lok'Tar Ogar!
Love the idea, made a Windsurf-compatible version: https://github.com/ameshkov/peon-ping-windsurf
All I see here is a bunch of people cheering for, allegedly, stolen content
I miss the wisp
just this week i asked claude to use /say command instead of echo-ing it’s messages • magic!
Genuis!
I use this analogy for Claude Code all the time! Amazing.
Everything in AI is built on copyright infringement, so redistributing Blizzard assets while slapping an MIT license on everything is par for the course.
It has been 24 years since release, in any place that isn't completely captured by big capital interests it would be fair use. This is such a forced reach. There are plenty of good arguments to be made re: big LLM providers and copyright, yet you're weakening all of them by choosing the worst example.
It's quasi-legal only as long as Activision execs are unaware.
Fair use doesn't mean you can placate any license you want on it.
One should AI wash it first.
Warcraft 3 Reforged has been released in 2020.
The Beatles released "She Loves You" much more than 24 years ago. You don't get to redistribute their music however you want. Me pointing out that AI bros disregard basic common sense and the law as part of pursuing their objectives doesn't weaken anything, it reinforces how they should be held accountable.
Wrong comparison.
IIRC this is a different case covered under fair/transformative use. The length of the clip matters, I think it was like <6seconds. There's a lot of videos/livestreams that use similar clips/voiceovers from other games.
This just doesn't engage with what I said, being that this is only true because the law has been captured by big capital interests, to the detriment of society. "But it's the law!!" adds nothing - my comment already implies awareness of it being the law.
The idea that using these 24-year old WC3 peon sounds in an open source github project makes one an "AI bro" or even connecting it to AI in general is laughable. There have been thousands of projects on github including this kind of thing long, long before LLMs.
Your anger about big AI and copyright is valid! But it's completely overflowing your common sense, targeting the wrong things indiscriminately. Learn to channel it.
Copyright is what it is, the guy is distributing wav files which I guess are the original ones. It is done in blatant disregard for copyright so the argument is solid. Just because you have another view does not mean we have to accept that view.
There are few people who seriously recommend less than 25-years of protection.
To be fair, MIT is correctly applied to the source code. Voice resources are of course licensed and copyrighted under other terms.
This is the reason why there is a distinction between "Declared license" and "Concluded license".
First thought as well. How is this legal?
"No copyright infringement intended"
AFK vibe coded while k-holed at a virtual influencer conference
Shouldn't the sound for when a task finishes be something like "Job done!"? Looking at the table it seems like it makes the sound for acknowledging that it's received an order (e.g. "I can do that").
If we're being strict to peons, then no, that's the human's voice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r06heQ5HsI.
Hearthsone...
You're thinking of peasants, the Human unit.
`peon --pack peasant`
This was my first thought too, thankfully they thought of it!
Work complete
This is exactly what I was missing!
I've made a PR to make it linux compatible if that is usefull to someone else :)
Love this. I guess there was no application for "Me not that kind of Orc"? That's the best one, but maybe it has hints of homophobia.
Good day commander!
Hmm, time to voice clone the Protoss advisor from StarCraft: "YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL TOKENS"
I'm laughing way too much on this.. :-)
Is this singularity event everyone was talking about? Certainly feels like it
This is cool and all, but I just dont understand why we cannot simply manage Claude Code sessions from the Claude phone.
Yes, I know about running CC on android phones or connecting the bot to your github account. But what I really need is to manage CC sessions I started on some random VM from the app.
Have you tried something like https://github.com/slopus/happy or https://github.com/tiann/hapi ?
I use tmux, whatever implementation the app might have I'd likely prefer just sshing in anyway
Termux and tmux are useful for crazy coding sessions from your phone/tablet but sometimes I just want to continue a job started from my computer without setting up private networks and SSH keys and all that.
Have Claude use chrome MCP to setup Tailscale for you
Hahaha awesome!
Taz Dingo man.
Make it play "I am a medieval man" when it compacts.
You can also play "Your soundcard works perfectly" to test the sound output.
"ok"
The irony is that soon enough the human will be the peon! /s
Arguably that’s long been the case. The genius was in manipulating the peons into striving to be an alpha peon.
You don't even need an /s tag.
Indeed!
Claude will ask me to record my voice and make a sound pack out of it.
I look forward to recording such phrases as "More quota please" and "I apologize for the safety violation in my last input".
That’s cute. You think you will still be interacting with Claude once you’ve been made obsolete.