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Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

Finally someone doing actual good work with LLMs instead of “Claude, shit me out another useless SaaS”.

Just as was foretold: an actual differentiator is creativity, not coding ability.

3 hours agowiseowise

Agreed.

Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.

We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.

2 hours agoTeMPOraL

For those like me who are not into Star Trek lore deep enough to recognize the name, she voiced the Star Trek computer in basically all the series .

14 minutes agodtech

I just yeeted a bunch of extremely noisy fragments into elevenlabs, and it came out pretty good on their cheap $5 plan. If you're after this for your own amusement, let me know if you want a screencap, or a dump of the source files.

Obv no clean room reconstruction but good enough for personal use...

2 hours agoisoprophlex

I have lots of super high quality, clean audio recordings from her ripped from an old video game that she did voice work for. I've tried various TTS models over the years with it. Getting the pitch and tune is easy, but getting the impersonal detached robot-y feeling is kinda tricky. But I haven't tried in the past 6 months, so maybe it's time to give it another shot.

20 minutes agosigmoid10

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a few seconds agoisoprophlex

I did this. She recorded clean (imo, i cleaned it up) audio for “Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual” which is available on archive.org.

an hour agos0ss

I would like WOPR's voice from Wargames.

20 minutes agoTommix11

it's fun but PLEASE watch out for malicious code/supply chain attacks from random vibe-coded .sh scripts:

downloads other scripts (peon.sh, uninstall.sh) and executes them or places them where they will be executed later

edits your ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc files to add aliases and tab completion

parses a remote JSON file to get filenames ($sfile) and then does: curl ... -o "$INSTALL_DIR/packs/$pack/sounds/$sfile"

an hour agoGeorgeOldfield

Creativity is looking like it's going to be king

3 hours agoFolcon

At least until General Artificial Creativity (GAC) takes over. But don't worry, it won't kill humans for a greater good of more paperclips, but because it will be.. creative.

2 hours agojs8

Actually, I’ve seen a 150% improvement on Claude Opus 4.6 just by setting up the notifications with Final Fantasy VI menu sounds.

8 minutes agoLucasoato

I love this idea, but I really wish it were Warcraft II voices.

3 hours agocaymanjim

Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old.

I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.

3 hours agodisillusioned

42 here, played a ton of Warcraft II, but my favorite to return to now is definitely Warcraft III (or AoE II).

4 minutes agowcallahan

Hey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!

2 hours agoGud

38, I played 2, but it was pretty bad compared to Warcraft III. Three still holds up just as well as it did back then.

2 hours agoAeolun

Not to be a patronizing old fart, but may I assume that you played II after III? If so I can understand it, but II was very special when it came out, and I never revisited it after.

I think it's a case of being better when it came out than another thing was when it came out, despite the other thing being comparatively better without the context of its time.

an hour agocroon

Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

2 hours agovirtue3

Mostly the best of times

2 hours agoGud

Speaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.

2 hours agojonathanlydall

Red Alert II for me would be great.

A plea to the various lab engineering teams: please create a json format or whatever that lets me configure this with voices locally. I am a happy user as of late of the Codex app by Open AI. It would be great if I could just give it some JSON somehow and it just works. I suppose skills can do this and I will try that later on. But I think this stuff matters, and it would be nice to have it built in and encouraged.

2 hours agoknuckleheads

It has Red Alert 2 voices. Check the carousel under the Choose your character section

2 hours agormuratov

Oh wow!! Thanks for letting me know, perfect

an hour agoknuckleheads

Your sound card works perfectly.

3 hours agoMaakuth

It doesn't get any better than this!

2 hours agox______________

Extremely easy to do with sound recording software or youtube mp3 downloaders. Takes a little imagination and makes programming less onerous in a deviate kind of way.

2 hours agooreally

Showing my age here, but the original samples are available too, and in MP3 or WAV format - they're in the installation directory of the game (in case of StarCraft and W3, hidden in a weird pseudo-ZIP data file (used to call it "Virtual File System")). That's where we sourced them from to set them as system sounds, back when Windows versions were still in four digits.

If you're enough of a fan to want to use these voices, chances are you still have the original installation media (or original bootleg copy) somewhere around the house :).

2 hours agoTeMPOraL

I may or may not have had the ogre finished training clip as my startup "chime"

an hour agoandreareina

Oh my god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGUbvj-Krg

2 hours agoandai

Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.

2 hours agocbsks

Zug zug

3 hours agolargbae

We are being attacked!

2 hours agohypercube33

that's what i ended up doing — it was pretty easy:

* download Warcraft II voices

* tell claude to wire it all up

3 hours agopetethepig

Fantastic. And Claude can do the first part too!

The age of the WALL-E blobs is upon us!

2 hours agoandai

Aye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!

2 hours agoKirr

Do you need assistance?

2 hours agohcs

Same. Ouch my back.

3 hours agorcpt

"Plebs are needed!"

2 hours agobandrami

my man

3 hours agogeekymartian

This is cool. I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no. This workflow is getting really old.

I guess that I also don't want to pollute old good memories by associating them with work/Claude

an hour agonusl

Totally agree, it's the main reason I'll never recommend Linux to anyone, because you can't expect normal people to understand these things.

But it's kinda funny to me that you just said "I was going to run this code on my system, until I saw some other code in the same repo, and now I refuse to run it" :D It's all the same repo, you're willing to try part of the code, but not another part of it. Completely arbitrary.

an hour agoINTPenis

I cloned the repository just for the sound files. I may hook them to my terminal for long running jobs when I have some time to have some fun. Maybe a wrapper script.

Hmm, why not?

an hour agobayindirh

I was kinda watching it unfold on X, I think this user was a couple days before https://x.com/delba_oliveira/status/2020515010985005255?s=46 and simpler/less-invasive instructions

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Also, I'd love to use these sound effects, but I am an rts player and love aoe and wc franchise, these noises just trigger me to want to play too much.

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Also, also, if you haven't seen AgentCraft, you are missing out -> https://x.com/idosal1/status/2021661861163544818 (worked in one npx command for me using my claude, a+ for creativity and smoothness)

3 hours agothomasfromcdnjs

Would love this with CS1.6 voices: "GO GO GO!", "The bomb has been planted", "Need backup"

2 hours agoskrunch

My god I never realised how badly I wanted this until now. Only, with the voice of the Star Trek Computer. Elevenlabs, here I come..!

Edit: well that only took me 30 minutes. "Warning: ssh tunnel collapsed. Unable to proceed."

Nice.

3 hours agoisoprophlex

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, wife of Star Trek creator Eugene Wesley (Gene) Roddenberry Sr.

2 hours agonandomrumber

Did you contribute that pack back?

2 hours agoAeolun

gimme a minute to do some work stuff and I'll throw a little sample, 11labs howto + the source files online somewhere. check back to this thread in a while, i'll post it here. obviously the legal status of this is unclear, but i guess if you keep usage strictly personal it should be fine.

an hour agoisoprophlex

Is WoW still around? Did it fall off? All of a sudden people just stopped talking about it.

18 minutes agoburner420042

> Claude Code doesn't notify you when it finishes or needs permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow.

On macOS, in iTerm2, Claude will trigger notifications. I was impressed!

(and also annoyed: I don't like notifications. Then again, I don't have Claude do long things where I can go get a coffee)

2 hours agoAceJohnny2

Good day commander!

8 minutes agocanto

What I really want is for the peon voice to be replicated and for custom things to be in that voice. Or even better, the starcraft battlecruiser guy's voice!

3 hours agoaliljet

This is great! I already have Claude set up to use the "insufficient vespene gas" line from Starcraft when it needs permissions.

an hour agostandarditem

I'll be looking forward to making an Infested Terran sound pack.

3 hours agomidtake

> Refactor this codebase

Please kill me.

3 hours agooefrha

Really cool, just one nitpick is that the "What do you want?" is used for 2 completely states (greeting and alert), which is not good UX-wise.

Otherwise totally fun idea!

an hour agoxandrius

This is amazing. Incidentally, I've always enjoyed Blizzard's UI art style/textures, in-game and on their website. To me it felt like a hallmark of the quality they used to hold their games to, and it was only once in a rare while I'd see some other website put so much work into their art direction

3 hours agobrailsafe

I need to check if I can voice clone warcraft peons with some tts-model. I need this everywhere.

an hour agoKeplerBoy

I'd love to add some Linux support for this. If anyone else is interested in contributing, happy to coordinate.

an hour agokaasl

Stronghold Crusader advisor would be much funnier: Token stocks are too low sire! Not enough tokens mi lord!

2 hours agogeneral1465

I just swapped all my Claude code spinner verbs to be Warcraft related and was thinking today how I could get it to say “Jobs done” when it needed my attention

2 hours agoitsjustjordan

This is the best thing I've ever seen xD

2 hours agoAeolun

The StarCraft Battle Cruiser Engage sound is cut off which made me sad as it’s one of my favorites.

3 hours agoIgorPartola

You sir, deserve a medal

3 hours agodtzur

have been wondering what it would take to support linux

2 hours agosy26

Yes, very strange to see a linux-style script that works everywhere except Linux.

2 hours agonunobrito

ISTR there's a "more gold is needed" voice sprite, ideal for out-of-tokens scenarios

2 hours agobjackman

Ok very cool!

I already had built a hook with desktop notification and window highlighting myself. But I have to admit, making it fun like this beats it by a lot.

3 hours agobothlabs

I had wired up my local Claude Code instance to play back a sound on my Windows machine, but for my VPS-with-tmux-and-Clawdbot implementation, getting that to work... well, it just required me asking Claude to write an emitter script on the VPS and a listener script on my Windows box and have them connect over Tailscale and got it working in about 2 minutes. Game changer, honestly.

3 hours agodisillusioned

This is exactly what I was missing!

I've made a PR to make it linux compatible if that is usefull to someone else :)

an hour agor00ps
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someone filed a PR to add TF2 engineer, good ol' times :')

2 hours agobacon_fan123

Would also love Heavy

ENGINEER STOP

2 hours agoramon156

Now we just need a version for AoE2 villagers and it'll be complete.

2 hours agomoffkalast

Anthropic should release AI generated voice packs for Claude. I'm sure they'll be very popular.

3 hours agoares623

Ah! I was hoping to see the science vessel, or as we used to call it, the Mr. Burns ship.

Awesome idea and well realised, love this :)

3 hours agocadamsdotcom

I use this analogy for Claude Code all the time! Amazing.

2 hours agodr_dshiv

Everything in AI is built on copyright infringement, so redistributing Blizzard assets while slapping an MIT license on everything is par for the course.

4 hours agohenning

It has been 24 years since release, in any place that isn't completely captured by big capital interests it would be fair use. This is such a forced reach. There are plenty of good arguments to be made re: big LLM providers and copyright, yet you're weakening all of them by choosing the worst example.

3 hours agodeaux

It's quasi-legal only as long as Activision execs are unaware.

3 hours agoanilakar

Fair use doesn't mean you can placate any license you want on it.

3 hours agoglandium

One should AI wash it first.

3 hours agointerloxia

Warcraft 3 Reforged has been released in 2020.

3 hours agowiseowise

The Beatles released "She Loves You" much more than 24 years ago. You don't get to redistribute their music however you want. Me pointing out that AI bros disregard basic common sense and the law as part of pursuing their objectives doesn't weaken anything, it reinforces how they should be held accountable.

3 hours agohenning

Wrong comparison.

IIRC this is a different case covered under fair/transformative use. The length of the clip matters, I think it was like <6seconds. There's a lot of videos/livestreams that use similar clips/voiceovers from other games.

2 hours agooreally

This just doesn't engage with what I said, being that this is only true because the law has been captured by big capital interests, to the detriment of society. "But it's the law!!" adds nothing - my comment already implies awareness of it being the law.

The idea that using these 24-year old WC3 peon sounds in an open source github project makes one an "AI bro" or even connecting it to AI in general is laughable. There have been thousands of projects on github including this kind of thing long, long before LLMs.

Your anger about big AI and copyright is valid! But it's completely overflowing your common sense, targeting the wrong things indiscriminately. Learn to channel it.

3 hours agodeaux

Copyright is what it is, the guy is distributing wav files which I guess are the original ones. It is done in blatant disregard for copyright so the argument is solid. Just because you have another view does not mean we have to accept that view.

There are few people who seriously recommend less than 25-years of protection.

3 hours agopastage

To be fair, MIT is correctly applied to the source code. Voice resources are of course licensed and copyrighted under other terms.

This is the reason why there is a distinction between "Declared license" and "Concluded license".

2 hours agonunobrito

"No copyright infringement intended"

3 hours agoEvidlo

AFK vibe coded while k-holed at a virtual influencer conference

3 hours agobdhcuidbebe

Shouldn't the sound for when a task finishes be something like "Job done!"? Looking at the table it seems like it makes the sound for acknowledging that it's received an order (e.g. "I can do that").

4 hours agobarbs

You're thinking of peasants, the Human unit.

4 hours agochrysoprace

`peon --pack peasant`

This was my first thought too, thankfully they thought of it!

2 hours agoponco

Work complete

4 hours agoddtaylor

Love this. I guess there was no application for "Me not that kind of Orc"? That's the best one, but maybe it has hints of homophobia.

3 hours agoboring-human

Hmm, time to voice clone the Protoss advisor from StarCraft: "YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL TOKENS"

2 hours agoXorNot

I'm laughing way too much on this.. :-)

2 hours agonunobrito

Taz Dingo man.

an hour agoBoredPositron

Is this singularity event everyone was talking about? Certainly feels like it

3 hours agoartemonster

Hahaha awesome!

2 hours agoaswegs8

This is cool and all, but I just dont understand why we cannot simply manage Claude Code sessions from the Claude phone.

Yes, I know about running CC on android phones or connecting the bot to your github account. But what I really need is to manage CC sessions I started on some random VM from the app.

3 hours agothrowa356262

I use tmux, whatever implementation the app might have I'd likely prefer just sshing in anyway

3 hours agotjoff

Termux and tmux are useful for crazy coding sessions from your phone/tablet but sometimes I just want to continue a job started from my computer without setting up private networks and SSH keys and all that.

2 hours agothrowa356262

Have Claude use chrome MCP to setup Tailscale for you

2 hours agofragmede

Make it play "I am a medieval man" when it compacts.

You can also play "Your soundcard works perfectly" to test the sound output.

2 hours ago29athrowaway

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2 hours agoreeddev42

The irony is that soon enough the human will be the peon! /s

3 hours agokeyle

Arguably that’s long been the case. The genius was in manipulating the peons into striving to be an alpha peon.

2 hours agoroysting

You don't even need an /s tag.

3 hours agobooleandilemma

Indeed!

Claude will ask me to record my voice and make a sound pack out of it.

I look forward to recording such phrases as "More quota please" and "I apologize for the safety violation in my last input".

2 hours agousefulposter

That’s cute. You think you will still be interacting with Claude once you’ve been made obsolete.