mac-voice-mcpBLOCK
Talk with Claude out loud on your Mac — on-device speech with whisper.cpp. An MCP server.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
🎙️ mac-voice-mcp
Talk with Claude out loud on your Mac. Natural turn-taking · on-device speech recognition · no audio leaves your computer
Claude speaks through your Mac's speakers, listens to your answer the way a person would,
4f382fa4c294OBSERVED · 2026-10-12Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add mac-voice-mcp -- npx -y [email protected]
Exposed tools (2)
2 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
speak_and_listen | read | |
voice_setup | read |
Trust audit
BLOCKgrade D · trust 69/100 Do not install this without reading the findings. The audit found something that could harm you or your machine.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | FAIL |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | WARN |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- declared (1 observation(s))
- Network
- declared (7 observation(s))
- Shell
- declared (1 observation(s))
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (7)
if (!bin) throw new SetupError("No text-to-speech engine found. Install espeak-ng (e.g. `sudo apt install espeak-ng`).");: { label: "Text-to-speech", status: "missing", detail: "no engine found — install espeak-ng (`sudo apt install espeak-ng`)" },return which("brew") ?? ["/opt/homebrew/bin/brew", "/usr/local/bin/brew"].find(isExecutable) ?? null;const base = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`;system use found in code, not declared in the description
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk, zod, @types/node, typescript
| "microphone returned pure digital silence" | Usually the app running the server lacks mic access: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone, allow it, then restart that app. If the message s
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
4f382fa4c294full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/jeet0007__mac-voice-mcp.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | 4f382fa4c294 | BLOCK | D | 69 | first audit |
Questions
What is the mac-voice-mcp MCP server?
Talk with Claude out loud on your Mac — on-device speech with whisper.cpp. An MCP server.
What tools does mac-voice-mcp expose?
2 in total: 2 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is mac-voice-mcp safe to connect to an agent?
No — not without reading the findings first. The audit graded it D (69/100) and found 2 critical or high issues in the source. Each one is listed on this page with the file and line it is on.
What credentials does mac-voice-mcp need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does mac-voice-mcp run?
It speaks stdio, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as mac-voice-mcp at 0.5.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (4f382fa4c294), read on 2026-10-12. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.