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operator, n. — the one who answers, finds the exit, gets you through

OPERATOR

Talk to your terminal.

Like ringing the ship — you talk, the Operator answers, acts, and talks back. Hold a key, say what you want. It lands in the terminal you're looking at.

There is no cloud. WhisperKit for ears, Kokoro for voice — every word runs on your Mac.

— transcript · 11:42 · local —
youhold fn · "run the tests"
operator→ delivered to iTerm · 0.8s
claude🔊 "all green — forty-five passing."

why it's good

Fast

Push-to-talk to text in about a second. No spinner, no round-trip to anywhere.

All local

On-device speech in and out. No cloud, no API keys, no account to talk to. Works on a plane.

Minimal

A menu-bar icon and one hotkey. Everything you need, nothing you don't.

Terminal-native

iTerm2 and Ghostty — not a browser tab. Run several agents; each gets its own voice.

install

brew tap jud/operator https://github.com/Jud/homebrew-operator.gitcopy brew install --cask operatorcopy

see it

30-second demo

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