anime-tts

Anime TTS + terminal effects for Claude Code. A breathy Rei Ayanami voiceover (ElevenLabs), sparkles, kaomoji reactions, and sound FX on every session event.

Features

• Visual FX — terminal flash + border glow on session start, tool use, completion
• Sound FX — themed sound packs (default chiptune, anime, DBZ, silent)
• TTS narration — ElevenLabs speech on stop / error / prompt / session-start, with local response summarization (no LLM round-trip required)
• Rei voice by default — soft breathy Japanese female (Akane, 3321Alera3fXjEWjjbAX), monotone cadence, Japanese softeners sprinkled into English output (desu, hai, ne)
• 10+ voice presets — cute kawaii, anime prince, tomboy, explosion mage, and more
• Dedup + queue — never overlapping speech, never repeats the same line twice in 30s
• Audio caching — each rendered line is cached on disk by text + voice + settings hash
• Slash command — /anime-tts to toggle, swap themes, change voice, set volume

Install

From the anime-tts marketplace (Claude Code)

/plugin marketplace add leancoderkavy/anime-tts
/plugin install anime-tts@anime-tts

This points Claude Code at this repo as a plugin marketplace and installs from there. Updates: /plugin marketplace update anime-tts.

From npm

npm install -g anime-tts
anime-tts install     # copies plugin into ~/.claude/plugins/anime-tts

From source

git clone https://github.com/leancoderkavy/anime-tts.git ~/.claude/plugins/anime-tts
cd ~/.claude/plugins/anime-tts
cp .env.example .env
# add ELEVENLABS_API_KEY to .env

Restart Claude Code. Then enable TTS with /anime-tts tts setup — it will walk you through pasting your ElevenLabs key, picking a voice, and choosing which events speak.

TTS is disabled by default. Visuals and sound FX work immediately; voice requires explicit opt-in.

ElevenLabs API key

You need a free ElevenLabs account — sign up here, then find your key in Profile → API Keys. Three ways to give it to the plugin (pick one):

1. Slash command (easiest): /anime-tts tts key sk_your_key_here — writes it to .env for you
2. Edit .env directly: add ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=sk_your_key_here to ~/.claude/plugins/anime-tts/.env
3. Shell export: export ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=sk_your_key_here in your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

The plugin checks .env first, then falls back to process.env, so either mechanism works.

Configuration

Edit config.json:

{
  "enabled": true,
  "volume": 0.4,
  "visuals": true,
  "sfx": true,
  "tts": {
    "enabled": true,
    "voice_id": "3321Alera3fXjEWjjbAX",
    "model": "eleven_flash_v2_5",
    "language": "ja",
    "voice_settings": {
      "stability": 0.95,
      "similarity_boost": 0.85,
      "style": 0.05,
      "use_speaker_boost": true
    },
    "on_events": ["stop", "error", "session_start", "prompt_submit"]
  }
}

Environment

Put your ElevenLabs API key in .env:

ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=sk_...

Get one at elevenlabs.io.

Slash commands

Voices

All voices are ElevenLabs professional voices. Switch with /anime-tts tts voice <name>.

Hooks

Fires on every Claude Code hook event:

• SessionStart — power-up sound, flash, TTS greeting
• UserPromptSubmit — energy beam SFX, intent narration
• PreToolUse / PostToolUse — tool activation chimes
• Stop — completion SFX, Rei summarizes the response
• Notification / SessionEnd — ambient feedback

License

MIT © leancoderkavy

Credits

• Voice: Akane by ElevenLabs
• Sound packs: Helton Yan — Retro Anime SFX (CC0)
• Built for Claude Code