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Show HN: SciTeX Notification – Give AI agents a voice: TTS, phone calls, SMS

Posted by ywatanabe1989 on Sunday March 15, 2026 @06:19PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/ywatanabe1989/scitex-notification

I built this after getting tired of staring at terminals waiting for agents to finish.scitex-notification gives AI agents working on local and remote servers (via MCP) a multi-backend notification system — they speak progress aloud from speakers on your desktop, and escalate to a phone call if you don't respond (Twilio setup needed).The escalation chain: TTS audio → desktop → email → SMS →...

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Re:Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:17AM (#47374146)

In my view, Emacs is getting more powerful in the AI era. The cost of writing Elisp has dropped significantly — I've ended up with 15+ personal Elisp packages as a result. The freedom Emacs offers is still unmatched. For example, I heavily rely on sending automatic response (https://github.com/ywatanabe1989/emacs-claude-code), monitoring repository, and targeted context building from dired.

Re:Claude Code Voice Mode on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:51AM (#47374026)

If voice mode does not mean only interactive conversations, I use my custom TTS MCP server. https://github.com/ywatanabe1989/scitex-audio

It enables agents to deliver auditory feedback from speakers on my desk as a central notifier, relaying via ssh tunneling.

If this is off topic here, I apologize for that.