Free & open source · macOS, Windows, Linux
Your clipboard,
read aloud.
Chirp lives in your menu bar and turns any text you copy into natural speech — with a neural model that runs entirely on your machine. Nothing you copy ever leaves it.
Download for macOS
then press ⌃⇧Space anywhere
1
Copy anything
An article, a diff, an email thread, a page of docs. If you can select it, Chirp can read it.
2
Press the shortcut
Ctrl/⌘+Shift+Space from any app. Press it again to stop.
3
Keep working
Eleven voices, instant playback, zero network calls. The Kokoro-82M model runs on your CPU.
Deliberately small
- Fully on-device — no API keys, no accounts, no audio in the cloud.
- A menu-bar resident, not another window to manage.
- An HTTP API on
127.0.0.1:8789so your own tools can speak too.
Download
Signed and notarized builds for every platform:
Prefer the service without the app? npm install && npm start from the repo gives you the same engine with a web UI. All releases →