# Phase 34: Voice - Context

**Gathered:** 2026-04-03
**Status:** Ready for planning
**Mode:** Auto-generated (discuss skipped via workflow.skip_discuss)

<domain>
## 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.

</domain>

<decisions>
## Implementation Decisions

### Claude's Discretion
All implementation choices are at Claude's discretion.

</decisions>

<code_context>
## Existing Code Insights

Codebase context will be gathered during plan-phase research.

</code_context>

<specifics>
## Specific Ideas

No specific requirements — refer to ROADMAP phase description and success criteria.

</specifics>

<deferred>
## Deferred Ideas

None.

</deferred>