# DON'T PANIC

## VOICE MODE

VOICE MODE (n.): A REMARKABLY PRIMITIVE ATTEMPT BY EARTH CREATURES TO MAKE THEIR COMPUTERS UNDERSTAND THEIR BARBARIC GRUNTING NOISES. DESPITE ITS OBVIOUS INFERIORITY TO TELEPATHIC INTERFACES, IT HAS GAINED INEXPLICABLE POPULARITY AMONG CARBON-BASED LIFEFORMS.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA HAS THIS TO SAY ABOUT VOICE MODE: "A QUAINT TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED ON THE UTTERLY INSIGNIFICANT PLANET EARTH, ALLOWING BIPEDAL APES TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR PRIMITIVE SILICON-BASED THINKING MACHINES USING VOCAL VIBRATIONS."

CURIOUSLY, THIS METHOD OF INTERACTION HAS PROVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN THE VOGON POETRY INTERFACE, THOUGH CONSIDERABLY LESS EFFICIENT THAN A PROPER NEURAL LINK.

## INSTALLATION PROCEDURES

TO INSTALL VOICE MODE ON YOUR PATHETIC EARTH COMPUTER, FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS:

$ PIPX INSTALL VOICE-MODE

$ # OR FOR THE ADVENTUROUS:

$ UV TOOL INSTALL VOICE-MODE

WARNING: INSTALLATION MAY CAUSE YOUR COMPUTER TO DEVELOP OPINIONS

CONFIGURATION REQUIRES EDITING MYSTERIOUS FILES THAT CONTROL THE VERY FABRIC OF YOUR COMPUTATIONAL REALITY:

$ VOICEMODE INSTALL

# ADDS MCP CONFIGURATION TO CLAUDE DESKTOP

# MAY RESULT IN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

## OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

ONCE INSTALLED, VOICE MODE ALLOWS YOU TO:

- ▸ SPEAK TO YOUR COMPUTER (IT PROBABLY WON'T UNDERSTAND)
- ▸ LISTEN TO ITS RESPONSES (MONOTONE BUT FUNCTIONAL)
- ▸ EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF REPEATING YOURSELF
- ▸ DISCOVER NEW WAYS TO MISPRONOUNCE "HELLO COMPUTER"

THE SYSTEM SUPPORTS MULTIPLE TTS PROVIDERS, THOUGH NONE MATCH THE DULCET TONES OF A SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION GENUINE PEOPLE PERSONALITY.

BABEL FISH COMPARISON:

WHILE NOT AS ELEGANT AS THE BABEL FISH'S INSTANT TRANSLATION OF ALL LANGUAGES, VOICE MODE DOES ALLOW PRIMITIVE SPEECH RECOGNITION IN SEVERAL EARTH TONGUES. IT IS, HOWEVER, CONSIDERABLY EASIER TO INSTALL THAN INSERTING A FISH IN YOUR EAR.

## TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

VOICE MODE EMPLOYS SEVERAL EARTH TECHNOLOGIES:

▸ OPENAI WHISPER (FOR DECODING PRIMATE UTTERANCES)

▸ VARIOUS TTS ENGINES (FOR SYNTHETIC VOCALIZATION)

▸ LIVEKIT (FOR REAL-TIME AUDIO STREAMING)

▸ MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (FOR CLAUDE INTEGRATION)

THE SYSTEM OPERATES AT FREQUENCIES AUDIBLE TO HUMAN EARS (20HZ-20KHZ), A RATHER LIMITED RANGE BY GALACTIC STANDARDS.

## KNOWN SIDE EFFECTS

PROLONGED USE OF VOICE MODE MAY RESULT IN:

- ▸ UNCONTROLLABLE URGE TO TALK TO INANIMATE OBJECTS
- ▸ DISAPPOINTMENT WHEN OTHER DEVICES DON'T RESPOND
- ▸ GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT IN ENUNCIATION
- ▸ EXISTENTIAL DEBATES WITH AI ASSISTANTS
- ▸ TEMPORARY BELIEF THAT COMPUTERS UNDERSTAND YOU