# Phase 34: Voice - Context **Gathered:** 2026-04-03 **Status:** Ready for planning **Mode:** Auto-generated (discuss skipped via workflow.skip_discuss) ## Phase Boundary Users can speak to the assistant (Whisper STT) and hear responses read aloud (Piper TTS) — Piper pre-warms visibly so the first synthesis call does not appear broken, and voice is offered during onboarding based on hardware capability. ## Implementation Decisions ### Claude's Discretion All implementation choices are at Claude's discretion. ## Existing Code Insights Codebase context will be gathered during plan-phase research. ## Specific Ideas No specific requirements — refer to ROADMAP phase description and success criteria. ## Deferred Ideas None.