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voicemode MCP Server

Natural voice conversations for AI assistants - STT/TTS via MCP

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

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Published as voice-mode on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

19 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Plugin .mcp.json references unreleased voicemode-mcp-launcher binary

Bug

The Claude Code plugin (installed via claude plugin install voicemode@voicemode) pulls .mcp.json from master, which references voicemode-mcp-launcher:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "voicemode": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "voicemode-mcp-launcher"
    }
  }
}

However, the latest PyPI release (v8.6.1) does not ship this entry point:

$ uvx --refresh --from voice-mode voicemode-mcp-launcher
An executable named `voicemode-mcp-launcher` is not provided by

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mbailey/voicemode/issues/441) · 2026-05-22 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### ESC during converse tool call disconnects MCP server entirely (requires /mcp reconnect)

## Summary

When the user presses ESC (or otherwise cancels the MCP tool call) during a `converse` session, the entire voicemode MCP server is torn down in the Claude Code client. The MCP dialog goes from `✔ connected` to `✘ failed` and requires an explicit `/mcp` reconnect before the next `/voice` will work.

Expected behavior: canceling a single tool call should cleanly abort the in-progress recording and return control to the user, but the MCP server should remain connected and ready for the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mbailey/voicemode/issues/337) · 2026-04-15 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### VoiceMode Connect: mcp-remote OAuth redirect_uri rejected by voicemode.dev

## Problem

When using `mcp-remote` to connect to VoiceMode Connect (`https://voicemode.dev/mcp`), the OAuth authorization flow fails with:

Invalid Authorization Request Error: Invalid redirect URI


The redirect URI generated by mcp-remote is `http://localhost:5450/oauth/callback`, which voicemode.dev's OAuth server rejects.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Add to `.mcp.json`:
```json
{"mcpServers": {"voicemode-dev": {"command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://voicemode.dev/mcp"]

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mbailey/voicemode/issues/329) · 2026-03-27 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Sub-agents fail: FastMCP generates anyOf in tool schemas, rejected by Anthropic API

## Problem

Claude Code sub-agents (parallel agents) fail immediately with this error:

tools.42.custom.input_schema: input_schema does not support oneOf, allOf, or anyOf at the top level


This happens because FastMCP converts Python `Optional[T]` type hints into JSON Schema with `anyOf`:

```json
"voice": {"anyOf": [{"type": "string"}, {"type": "null"}], "default": null}

The Anthropic Messages API rejects anyOf/oneOf/allOf in tool input schemas when creating sub-agents. This

Read the thread · 2026-03-16 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Include other TTS services?

First of all, voicemode is the MCP server I never knew I wanted until I found it. Great job and I'm 100% onboard with the purpose and mission of it. Love it!

I setup an elevenlabs proxy for the openai wire format, which works very well with voicemode, but obviously it's a paid/non-private service.

Would it make sense to include things like this? or even other things like Chatterbox services locally (as opposed to just kokoro?)

Read the thread · 2025-10-24 · closed · external user · 5 comments

Most recent

Conch does not serialize concurrent calls within a single server process (streamable-HTTP), causing overlapping playback and duplicated messages

Title: Conch does not serialize concurrent calls within a single server process (streamable-HTTP), causing overlapping playback

Summary

Conch.try_acquire() is documented as "true atomic locking across processes" and is backed by a file lock. But at conch.py:337 it short-circuits:

if self._acquired:
    return True  # Already holding it

With voicemode serve (streamable-HTTP), every connected client shares ONE process and ONE Conch instance. A second concurrent `converse

Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · open · external user · 2 comments

VoiceMode Connect: POST /consent returns empty-bodied 503, MCP OAuth can never complete

Summary

Authorising an MCP client against https://voicemode.dev/mcp cannot complete. The consent screen renders correctly, but clicking Approve results in POST https://voicemode.dev/consent returning HTTP 503 with an empty body. Because there is no body to render, the browser stays on the consent page and the button appears to do nothing — no error is surfaced to the user.

No authorization code is issued, the loopback listener is never called, and no tokens are ever written.

No

Read the thread · 2026-08-04 · open · external user · 1 comment

MCP server fails to launch when uv resolves Python 3.14 (pydantic-core source build fails)

Symptom

Claude Code plugin (voicemode@8.10.2) MCP server fails with -32000 Connection closed on launch. Running the plugin's entrypoint by hand shows why:

cd ~/.claude/plugins/cache/voicemode/voicemode/8.10.2p0
uv run voicemode --help
# 💥 maturin failed — pydantic-core 2.33.2 source build under CPython 3.14
# hint: pydantic-core was included because voice-mode depends on openai → pydantic

With CPython 3.14 installed as the newest interpreter, uv run selects it (`requires-pyth

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · open · external user · 1 comment

Bug: Connect hooks crash when jq is not installed

Summary

All VoiceMode Connect hooks (stop-notifications.sh, connect-session-end.sh, connect-session-start.sh, check-notifications.sh, on-team-created.sh) hard-depend on jq without checking if it's installed. When jq is missing, the scripts crash due to set -o pipefail + set -o errexit. Since stop-notifications.sh fires on every session stop without || true protection, users see a hook error on every session end.

The main voicemode-hook-receiver.sh already handles t

Read the thread · 2026-03-01 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Some info on the Getting Started doc is wrong

The getting started doc here https://github.com/mbailey/voicemode/blob/master/docs/tutorials/getting-started.md

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Instructs us to type converse into claude, which isn't actually the correct command. Rather, we should use /voicemode:converse which does start the MCP

Read the thread · 2026-01-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Command to speak only instead of have a conversation

Hello @mbailey

Firstly, this mcp is incridible. Its a game changer. So thanks for your time to bring it to us.

I was able to have a conversation or a monologue where only me speak, and I want to know if have a /command where I can evoke it directly without tell to Claude about this time of conversation.

Read the thread · 2025-11-04 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Voice-mode is still not handling args

Sorry for the prolonged response to 88

I am still having the same issue where no args are being passed

> uvx --refresh voice-mode version
/Users/gregory.hunt/.cache/uv/archive-v0/vepEdsIJGBhSHyaUzVQXL/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pydub/utils.py:14: DeprecationWarning: 'audioop' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13
  import audioop
/Users/gregory.hunt/.cache/uv/archive-v0/vepEdsIJGBhSHyaUzVQXL/lib/python3.12/site-packages/webr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mbailey/voicemode/issues/89) · 2025-10-21 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 17 reports Pod holds for voicemode](/mcp/voicemode/issues) — of 19 qualified upstream.

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