Assistant (ciro-maciel) for Mac
Voice assistant for Claude Code: say its name, ask out loud, and it answers by voice while it works in your repositories, with local Whisper.
By ciro-maciel. Free and open source, MIT licence.
Assistant (ciro-maciel) at a glance
- Version
- 0.5.2
- Released
- 31 October 2026
- Download size
- 28 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer
- ciro-maciel
- GitHub stars
- 3
About Assistant (ciro-maciel)
Assistant by Ciro Cesar Maciel: a voice assistant for Claude Code. Say its name, ask out loud, it answers by voice while it works in your repositories. Local Whisper.
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How to install Assistant (ciro-maciel) on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Assistant (ciro-maciel) and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.5.2 from ciro-maciel's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Assistant (ciro-maciel) show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Assistant-0.5.2-macos.dmg (28 MB).
What is new in Assistant (ciro-maciel) 0.5.2
Install with one line: `curl -fsSL https://blob.ciromaciel.click/tools/voice-assistant/install.sh | bash`. Or download the .dmg and drag Assistant to Applications: signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Apple Silicon, macOS 14+. It needs sox, whisper-cpp, ffmpeg and Claude Code: see the README. Made by [Ciro Cesar Maciel](https://ciromaciel.click/?ref=oss-voice-assistant-release). [Follow @ciro-maciel](https://github.com/ciro-maciel) for the next open-source tools.
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