# SKI

> A desktop app that gives your AI coding agent a voice — talk to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more out loud, and hear them answer, all on-device.

SKI is a floating desktop widget for Mac and Windows that turns your AI coding agent into a two-way voice conversation partner. Built by Pattern AI Labs, it runs entirely on your own machine — speech recognition and neural voice synthesis both happen locally, so nothing you say is ever uploaded. Version 1.0.1 launched in late July 2026 and is free for life with a one-time registration.

## What It Is

SKI is a voice coding interface — not a dictation tool. Where most voice tools stop at converting speech to text, SKI closes the full loop: your spoken request goes to your coding agent, the agent does the work, and its reply is spoken back to you in a natural neural voice. The app sits in the Mac notch (or draws its own on Macs without one) and floats as a draggable pill on Windows, staying out of the way until there's something to say.

## How the Voice Loop Works

The workflow is designed to go from install to conversation in under two minutes:

- **Install** — a DMG on Mac or EXE on Windows; no credit card required.
- **Connect your agent** — one click per agent using a small "SKI skill" your agent already understands.
- **Talk** — the floating pill shows it heard you, the agent gets to work, and the reply is spoken aloud.

Full-duplex echo cancellation means you can interrupt the agent mid-sentence and still be heard cleanly on open speakers — no push-to-talk required. An "approve-before-send" mode lets you review every transcript in an editable bubble before it reaches the agent.

## Privacy Architecture

SKI is built around a strict on-device model:

- Speech-to-text and neural voice synthesis run entirely on your machine.
- The widget and agent communicate through plain files inside your own project — no daemon, no cloud service.
- Audio is never uploaded; there is nothing to upload it to.
- Transcripts, sessions, and local recordings all live in a built-in Transcripts window on your machine, exportable to Markdown or plain text.

## Agent and Platform Support

SKI supports six coding agents at launch: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and OpenClaw. Each project can be bound to its own voice, so multiple repos can be active simultaneously and each answers in a distinct voice. The app also supports screenshots on demand — a hotkey grabs your screen and attaches it to your next spoken request, and the agent can request a screenshot itself.

## Meeting Features

Beyond coding sessions, SKI includes two meeting modes. The local meeting transcriber captures mic and system audio from Zoom, Meet, or Teams entirely on-device — unlimited recording time, zero cloud, with live transcription and export. The second mode, powered by AgentCall, sends your coding agent into a video call as a live participant: it can speak, listen, screenshare, read and send chat, and produce a speaker-diarized transcript. The AgentCall integration is the only feature that touches the internet and is the only paid component.

## Update: v1.0.1

The current release is SKI 1.0.1, published July 27, 2026, available as a notarized DMG for Apple Silicon Macs (macOS 14.4 Sonoma or later) and an x64 installer for Windows 10/11. The GitHub releases repository (`pattern-ai-labs/ski-releases`) hosts binaries and the auto-update feed; the app checks for new releases automatically and verifies each update cryptographically before applying it. Linux support is listed as planned.

## Features
- On-device speech-to-text
- Neural voice synthesis (local)
- Full-duplex echo cancellation with barge-in
- Approve-before-send transcript review
- Multi-project support with per-project voices
- Live agent status indicator
- Global hotkeys
- Screenshots on demand
- Local meeting transcriber (mic + system audio)
- Agent-in-meeting via AgentCall
- Speaker-diarized meeting transcripts
- Google Calendar auto-join
- Draggable floating pill / notch UI
- Automatic cryptographically-signed updates
- Export transcripts to Markdown or plain text
- Silent mode (text-only replies)
- Mute / push-to-talk support

## Integrations
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Calendar, AgentCall

## Platforms
WINDOWS, MACOS, LINUX, API, CLI

## Pricing
Freemium — Free tier available with paid upgrades

## Version
v1.0.1

## Links
- Website: https://heyski.io
- Documentation: https://heyski.io/tutorials.html
- Repository: https://github.com/pattern-ai-labs/ski-releases
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/ski-voice-coding