Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

by doppp • 5 months ago

1006 301 5 months ago

barbs• 5 months ago

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").

irjustin• 5 months ago

If we're being strict to peons, then no, that's the human's voice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r06heQ5HsI.

bloqs• 5 months ago

Hearthsone...

chrysoprace• 5 months ago

You're thinking of peasants, the Human unit.

ddtaylor• 5 months ago

Work complete

ponco• 5 months ago

`peon --pack peasant`

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

henning2• 5 months ago

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

bdhcuidbebe• 5 months ago

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

deaux2• 5 months ago

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.

wiseowise2• 5 months ago

Warcraft 3 Reforged has been released in 2020.

anilakar• 5 months ago

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

henning2• 5 months ago

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.

glandium• 5 months ago

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

Evidlo• 5 months ago

"No copyright infringement intended"

nunobrito3• 5 months ago

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".

gloosx• 5 months ago

First thought as well. How is this legal?

caymanjim2• 5 months ago

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

rcpt• 5 months ago

Same. Ouch my back.

largbae• 5 months ago

Zug zug

hypercube33• 5 months ago

We are being attacked!

reconnecting2• 5 months ago

Zwobu!

tigerlily• 5 months ago

Done building ship!

petethepig• 5 months ago

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

* download Warcraft II voices

* tell claude to wire it all up

andai2• 5 months ago

Fantastic. And Claude can do the first part too!

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

rob74• 5 months ago

Or good old Warcraft I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAEG8S-F01A&t=7s

caymanjim2• 5 months ago

Thanks for that link. I now realize it's actually the Warcraft I voices I was pining for!

Maakuth• 5 months ago

Your sound card works perfectly.

x______________• 5 months ago

It doesn't get any better than this!

reconnecting2• 5 months ago

Sound Blaster Pro!

disillusioned2• 5 months ago

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.

virtue3• 5 months ago

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

jonathanlydall• 5 months ago

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

Gud2• 5 months ago

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

Aeolun4• 5 months ago

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.

wcallahan• 5 months ago

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

ab-dm• 5 months ago

I mean, I’m 37 and my first ever RTS was Warcraft: Orcs and humans. Never liked the hero focus of w3

Xunjin2• 5 months ago

33 here, started with Dark Saga in my old PS1, after few months of my first gameplay got a used computer and played A LOT of warcraft 1 and 2.

PS: I still own the same PS1, tho the reader might not working 100%.

philistine• 5 months ago

I recently replayed Warcraft II and fell out of my chair when I realized the original did not have control groups. Those were only added with the Battle.Net edition!

codebje• 5 months ago

48, and I'm a medieval man.

mathgeek• 5 months ago

My goodness, it's scary how much I reminisce about long summer days doing nothing but playing War2 over Kali before the days of Battle.net.

geekymartian• 5 months ago

my man

andai2• 5 months ago

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

cbsks• 5 months ago

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.

knuckleheads2• 5 months ago

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.

rmuratov• 5 months ago

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

pwillia7• 5 months ago

Code won't compile: Tanya - Hahahhahahaha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVqnEGpsgI

oreally2• 5 months ago

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.

TeMPOraL2• 5 months ago

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 :).

Kirr• 5 months ago

Aye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!

veeti• 5 months ago

Age of Empires II anyone?

fragmede2• 5 months ago

woloul

https://quicksounds.com/sound/49/wololo

river_otter2• 5 months ago

I did that a few weeks ago ;) https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires

(This was the HN Post about it -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881)

bandie91• 5 months ago

Sssshhhhhh-hhhhaaaa

bandrami• 5 months ago

"Plebs are needed!"

hcs• 5 months ago

Do you need assistance?

Quarrel• 5 months ago

Job's Done!

nonethewiser• 5 months ago

Needs this so bad

ffsm83• 5 months ago

If you went to the website, you'd know there are multiple sets to choose from and create your own

athrowaway3z3• 5 months ago

I went to the website, and I'm just scared how overengineered it all seems to be.

sebbeth• 5 months ago

Me too! PR created https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping/pull/38

sgt• 5 months ago

Fantastic, I cloned your repo so long (https://github.com/sebbeth/peon-ping.git - the wc2_peasant branch) and I'm now online with WC2 sounds.

balls1872• 5 months ago

More work?

Intermernet3• 5 months ago

The warcraft 2 demo had Easter eggs. One voice sample was "in the retail version I'm much funnier".

Ntrails• 5 months ago

For years I had Pidgin spam "Leave me alone" when I got pings. Man those voices are deeply embedded in my psyche

keyle• 5 months ago

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

booleandilemma• 5 months ago

You don't even need an /s tag.

usefulposter• 5 months ago

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".

roysting2• 5 months ago

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

roysting2• 5 months ago

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

dtzur• 5 months ago

You sir, deserve a medal

midtake• 5 months ago

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

oefrha• 5 months ago

Refactor this codebase

Please kill me.

ares623• 5 months ago

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

wiseowise2• 5 months ago

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.

Folcon• 5 months ago

Creativity is looking like it's going to be king

js8• 5 months ago

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.

athrowaway3z3• 5 months ago

King of what?

Copying what works and doing it cheaper without the cost of having to figure it out is what's profitable.

yreg2• 5 months ago

Creativity and taste.

TeMPOraL2• 5 months ago

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.

isoprophlex5• 5 months ago

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...

s0ss2• 5 months ago

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.

Tommix11• 5 months ago

I would like WOPR's voice from Wargames.

dtech• 5 months ago

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 .

jasondigitized3• 5 months ago

"Greetings Professor Falken" is the only greeting you need

GeorgeOldfield2• 5 months ago

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"

JohnMakin3• 5 months ago

Lol, yea, the scripts are beyond sketchy. This is the new vector, a cool idea masking itself as "fun" (which it is actually fun). People not understanding or vibing may not understand what they're installing. Even if this author isn't malicious, you cannot assume that will always be the case.

cadamsdotcom• 5 months ago

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 :)

zdw• 5 months ago

When something goes wrong it saying "Who let these lab monkeys free?" would be excellent.

thomasfromcdnjs• 5 months ago

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)

celeritascelery• 5 months ago

Agentcraft is exactly what I was thinking about when I saw this

aliljet• 5 months ago

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!

philipallstar2• 5 months ago

All the Starcraft voice acting is amazing. It's in the pipe - 5 by 5!

IgorPartola• 5 months ago

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

bothlabs• 5 months ago

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.

disillusioned2• 5 months ago

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.

brailsafe• 5 months ago

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

isoprophlex5• 5 months ago

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.

nandomrumber• 5 months ago

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

Aeolun4• 5 months ago

Did you contribute that pack back?

isoprophlex5• 5 months ago

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.

boring-human• 5 months ago

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.

throwa3562622• 5 months ago

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.

tjoff• 5 months ago

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

throwa3562622• 5 months ago

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.

2747fc56• 5 months ago

Have you tried something like https://github.com/slopus/happy or https://github.com/tiann/hapi ?

artemonster• 5 months ago

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

general1465• 5 months ago

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

29athrowaway• 5 months ago

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

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

dr_dshiv• 5 months ago

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

aswegs8• 5 months ago

Hahaha awesome!

sy26• 5 months ago

have been wondering what it would take to support linux

nunobrito3• 5 months ago

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

XorNot• 5 months ago

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

nunobrito3• 5 months ago

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

bjackman• 5 months ago

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

bacon_fan123• 5 months ago

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

moffkalast2• 5 months ago

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

river_otter2• 5 months ago

Done https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881 :)

ramon156• 5 months ago

Would also love Heavy

ENGINEER STOP

itsjustjordan• 5 months ago

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

skrunch• 5 months ago

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

thunfischtoast2• 5 months ago

It's pretty easy to create your own soundpack I think

Aeolun4• 5 months ago

This is the best thing I've ever seen xD

AceJohnny2• 5 months ago

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)

thunfischtoast2• 5 months ago

The thing with notifications is that a lot of apps go so overboard with them that I generally choose to silence them completely. This has totally led to important notifications being unseen for some time, but for the peace it is a price I'm ready to pay. Being able to configure notifications with high granularity is something I still have to discover.

daveytea• 5 months ago

Love this but i'm a Codex user, so forked and created the equivalent here: https://github.com/mrdavey/codex-peon

2gremlin181• 5 months ago

I knew I had to add GLaDOS as soon as I saw this. Unfortunately, while testing my PR I realized there’s no support for Linux. Hopefully someone smarter than me can get that added sooner rather than later.

johndough• 5 months ago

I am using piper-tts ( https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl ) with these voice files for GLaDOS: https://huggingface.co/rokeya71/VITS-Piper-GlaDOS-en-onnx/tr...

It is not perfect, but quite sufficient for simple system messages.

standarditem• 5 months ago

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

rockbruno• 5 months ago

This gave me an idea. You should set it up to say "We must construct additional pylons" if it requires MCP permissions specifically

BoredPositron• 5 months ago

Taz Dingo man.

kaasl• 5 months ago

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

nusl3• 5 months ago

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

INTPenis• 5 months ago

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.

Sayrus• 5 months ago

The install method is for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Having those install methods is a choice on all three.

stinkbeetle• 5 months ago

Not sure that installer.exe is much better in that regard.

nusl3• 5 months ago

If I want to try something like this out it's for fun more than anything, and I'm not really willing to invest much time trying to understand where to put the files etc.

bayindirh• 5 months ago

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?

killingtime742• 5 months ago

I also had this thought. So I cloned the repo and got Claude to review it. Then I installed it from the clone.

hxugufjfjf• 5 months ago

What did Claude find?

ajnin• 5 months ago

I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no

I don't quite get that argument. It's the same as the old download installer from random website, double click to run that people have been doing for decades. It only skips the download step. And it's arguably better since at least you can review the contents. When building a Go program it will also happily download stuff from github but I've seen way less complaints about that. And to be fair it's also been an infection vector, from people installing things from shady places (or reputable places but with ill-intent like installing unwanted browser toolbars, DRM rootkits ...), but it's nothing new. Same advice applies, know what you're doing, use reputable sources.

What's a better alternative ?

badhorseman2• 5 months ago

I don't think the go module system is great but I am not sure if any programming gets it right and all suffer from many issues, but go has the go.mod and it is easy to see what dependencies are being used both direct and indirect and the user can filter and look though these packages and pin them until they have eyeballed updates to the git repo. I don't feel the most comfortable with it but the whole `curl | sh` is so terrible, no signing no, way of knowing about the integrity of the installer.

What's a better alternative ?

I do not think the program really needs and installer but if one must then why not just have it under source control that way you get the benefits of git handling all the download bits and the install script being completely offline and just using cp or install commands.

you could tell the user to do this with a pithy command like `git --depth=1 clone $GITSITE/$REPO && $REPO/installer.sh && rm -R $REPO`

ryandrake• 5 months ago

My big problem with it is uninstallation. If I ever want to remove the program, I have to 1. Hope that the author published an uninstall.sh, or 2. examine the install.sh to see where it spams all its files to and remove them manually. This seems like a major step backwards from package managers.

nusl3• 5 months ago

You're blind-trusting someone to run stuff in the context of your terminal. Sure, it's similar to an installer but the author of the script can also manipulate the script at any time.

One day you run it, it's fine. The next day you run the same command on your machine, it installs malware. No way to tell without inspecting the script every time.

If you download an installer and it's fine, then you can run it again and it's still fine.

r00ps• 5 months ago

This is exactly what I was missing!

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

xandrius• 5 months ago

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!

KeplerBoy• 5 months ago

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

hiq• 5 months ago

If you're interested in playing wc3 online, consider checking out https://www.w3champions.com.

yreg2• 5 months ago

Grubby still plays there. And he somehow still looks the same age as when he won WCG in 2004.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCF6pCTGMKdo9r_kFQS-H3Q

ameshkov• 5 months ago

Love the idea, made a Windsurf-compatible version: https://github.com/ameshkov/peon-ping-windsurf

burner420042• 5 months ago

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

canto• 5 months ago

Good day commander!

Lucasoato• 5 months ago

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

alentodorov• 5 months ago

just this week i asked claude to use /say command instead of echo-ing it’s messages • magic!

khazhoux• 5 months ago

"ok"

splonk• 5 months ago

Maybe 20 years ago a build system at Google was called "grunt". For some reason I came across a CL description that said something like "make the build 10% funnier." It made the build script output an additional "zug-zug" line 10% of the time.

Xunjin2• 5 months ago

kek

tvmalsv• 5 months ago

Alliance! Get ‘em!!!

patrick4urcloud• 5 months ago

Love this, brings back LAN party vibes! Sound notifications for Claude Code are a real pain point.

I built something in the same space but took a different approach — less fun, more engineering: Vox (https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox) — local TTS in pure Rust, no API key, no cloud dependency.

CGamesPlay2• 5 months ago

If you want this to work over SSH, you'll need a different approach. I wrote an article about getting sounds from iTerm2 over SSH a while back: https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/11/25/iterm-plugins/#playin...

Then it's just a simple Claude code hook to play whatever sound: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/0fd07aea4863b581...

formerly_proven• 5 months ago

Just use OSC 9 or 777 to trigger desktop notifications. Much easier and supported in most major terminal emulators.

CGamesPlay2• 5 months ago

Claude has built-in support for those OSCs, no extra software needed. But you don't get the custom sound pack with those (at least without more extra software on the OS/terminal side).

Fervicus• 5 months ago

Warcraft 3 was so good. Sucks that there never was any worthy successor.

datapond• 5 months ago

OMG, you are my hero of the day !

bronkic• 5 months ago

Cool idea but not very helpful if you're playing Warcraft III while waiting for claude code to be done.

Intermernet3• 5 months ago

If we get one based on warcraft 2 you can then play warcraft 3 safely.

"Job Done!"

"Work Complete!"

"Are you still touching me?"

witx• 5 months ago

All I see here is a bunch of people cheering for, allegedly, stolen content

Dwedit• 5 months ago

I remember making custom Warcraft II levels, and you could change the construction time for buildings. If you picked a construction time of zero, the building would be built very quickly, but be damaged. There's something hilarious about asking a peasant to build a farm, then seeing a burning farm and hearing the "Job's Done!"

nottorp• 5 months ago

I don't see any mention of having to own warcraft 3 to use its assets...

This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.

Did anyone vote an exemption from copyright if it's for "AI" use?

iugtmkbdfil8342• 5 months ago

If there is one good thing about AI, it is that it might finally buldoze existing ecosystem.

matijao• 5 months ago

protect the corporations!

Majromax• 5 months ago

This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.

Not necessarily. This could be considered a quotation of a trivial part of a larger work, making the use legal in the US under its fair use doctrine.

Additionally, I'm not aware of any obvious way that this use could harm the commercial market for Warcraft 3 (and the other games whose voice packs are included in this repository). The use here does not compete with the original, and if anything it might drive sales on the margin through nostalgic reminders.

pousada• 5 months ago

Let me shed a tear for activision blizzard the poor artists corporation.

One good thing about genai is that it will force us to rethink the mess that is copyright

bnchrch• 5 months ago

PunchyHamster• 5 months ago

Oh it is very much alive if you're taxpayer and not a corporation

floor2• 5 months ago

I never voted for any of the copyright laws, and hope those archaic tools of oppression get tossed out entirely.

If given the option to vote for this, yes I would absolutely vote for an exemption.

But also, this is clearly "Fair Use" even under our current draconian copyright laws.

andrew_mason1• 5 months ago

my only request is that when it spawns a subagent we get "nother troll here"

Symmetry• 5 months ago

If you're the sort of person not to use a pre-packaged desktop environment, you can use mako as your notofication daemon and get the same effect by adding

  on-notify=exec play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga

or the equivalent to your config.

olivierestsage• 5 months ago

I missed out on Warcraft III the first time around. What's the best way to play the original game today?

Fnoord2• 5 months ago

Well, I can report I played Warcraft III and a plethora of other games with Wine back in the days. So I am sure (given how Wine has improved) you still can play it with Wine. No Windows required.

ramesh312• 5 months ago

I missed out on Warcraft III the first time around. What's the best way to play the original game today?

The HD remaster is the only official means on Battle.net, but it sucks. I'd recommend just torrenting the original and running in a VM. Plenty of active private servers still out there.

vicentwu• 5 months ago

Genuis!

SpaceManNabs• 5 months ago

I miss the wisp

tomekowal• 5 months ago

Attention! Lawsuit from Blizzard imminent.

Fnoord2• 5 months ago

ICQ and TomTom voice packs deja vu. Although 'oh-oh' was heavily used by public broadcast TV here, in documentaries warning about cybercrime.

magicalhippo• 5 months ago

Reminded me of Warcraft (the first), where, if you kept clicking on the same unit they would respond in more annoyed ways. The best IMHO was the human soldier[1], which would end with "Why do you keep touching me?".

First game that I knew of which had such fun details like that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZyZZtwdzQ

ticulatedspline• 5 months ago

I think I prefer the extra quotes from Warcraft II and Starcraft. The latter has some fun references to the Alien franchise and even a callback to Diablo (Protoss probe)

inanutshellus2• 5 months ago

Or the original Baldur's Gate. It had some great quotes. Jaheira's annoyed "Yeeeeesss oh omnipresent authority figure?!" when you clicked on her too often always cracked me up.

kridsdale3• 5 months ago

"In the pipe, five by five."

wtetzner• 5 months ago

I remember one of the Orcs in Warcraft II would yell "Stop poking me!"

crazypyro• 5 months ago

I think in WC3, if you clicked certain critters enough, they would explode.

stackghost• 5 months ago

"Join the Army", they said...

amunozo• 5 months ago

I don't know how is in English, but in Spanish if you keep clicking the Demon Hunter it says "I'm blind, not deaf". That was my favorite one.

triage8004• 5 months ago

Indubitabley

tremon• 5 months ago

They had the same joke in the sound setup program. If you kept clicking "test sound", you would get "it doesn't get any better than this!" in that same annoyed footman voice. But my favourite was the orc destroyer in Warcraft II, which would start singing sea shanties. Or at least attempt to.

rzzzt• 5 months ago

"Enjoying yourself?" https://youtu.be/q_A1GNx0M9M

PeteZa• 5 months ago

Annoyed Death Knight: "When my work is finished, I'm coming back for you..."

literallyroy• 5 months ago

I don’t see “Jobs done!” in the README :(

moomoo11• 5 months ago

Horde just continues to be infinitely badass and memorable all these years later.

I haven't played WoW since like 2006-2011 but I will always be Horde for life! Lok'Tar Ogar!

whalesalad• 5 months ago

I can already hear it now… “ready to work!”

d4rkp4ttern• 5 months ago

Related: I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model to make a stop-hook based voice plugin [2] that lets Claude Code give a short voice update whenever it stops. The hook quietly inserts nudges to Claude Code to end its response with a short speakable summary, and in case it forgets, it uses a headless agent to create the summary.

It was trickier than I expected, to get it working well: FFMpeg pipe streaming for low-latency playback, a three-hook injection strategy because the agent forgets instructions mid-turn, mkdir-based locks to queue concurrent voice updates from multiple sessions, and /tmp sentinel files to manage async playback state and prevent infinite loops.

[1] Pocket-TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts

[2] Claude-code voice plugin: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...

x-n2o• 5 months ago

Love this!

adamtaylor_13• 5 months ago

I just added Helldivers 2 voice lines to mine. SWEET LIBERTY MY LEEEEEEHG.

giancarlostoro• 5 months ago

Oh man, can we get Starcraft version, I wanna hear "WE MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS" for every minute I dont tab back in.

delduca2• 5 months ago

I will build one with Starcraft 2 SCV[1] for opencode.

1 - https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/SCV_(StarCraft_II)

joshmarlow• 5 months ago

Now I want my main agent to be modeled after the Adjutant and any subagents to sound like SCVs.

NeroVanbierv• 5 months ago

I have a `notify` command in my `bin/` for a couple of years now. It's using an audio snippet from Her (2013) with Scarlett Johansson's voice.

Usage: `~ my-bash-command; notify`

`.wav` snippet: https://gitlab.com/NeroVanbiervliet/linux-config/-/blob/mast...

cranx• 5 months ago

"Job’s done!"

jajuuka• 5 months ago

Time to fork the project and make one for Warcraft 2. "We're ready master. (I'm not ready!)"

MisterTea• 5 months ago

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tonyyont/peon-ping/main/in... | bash
300 line bash script to hand hold a person who I would assume is capable of using the computer they are downloading a program in source form. 'git clone' followed by 'make install' or go home.

maxfurman• 5 months ago

First time I've been jealous of Claude as a Codex user. When does it say "Stop poking me!"?

CharlesW3• 5 months ago

I did this as well, and loved to hear "Work complete!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupagiROLV8) when Claude Code needed me.

Once the novelty wore off, I found it more useful to hear per-project, event-specific messages. On macOS, that looks like this:

    {
      "Stop": [
        {
          "hooks": [
            {
              "type": "command",
              "command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX work complete\" volume 0.25' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "Notification": [
        {
          "matcher": "permission_prompt",
          "hooks": [
            {
              "type": "command",
              "command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX needs help\" volume 0.5' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }

jasondigitized3• 5 months ago

Where does this config get dropped into the file structure?

CharlesW3• 5 months ago

That goes into the project's .claude/settings.local.json.

kurishutofu• 5 months ago

I believe you don’t even have to use AppleScript you can just use the say command directly

CharlesW3• 5 months ago

Yes! IIRC, I needed to use osascript to set the volume.

delduca2• 5 months ago

For OpenCode https://github.com/mohak34/opencode-notifier

hilliardfarmer• 5 months ago

Not for Linux???

anarticle2• 5 months ago

This is excellent! Much more features than I came up with.

I used the Tesla autopilot sound along with iterms notification feature which helps get to the waiting terminal if it's buried: https://github.com/gpurkins/waiting-for-claudot

psyclobe• 5 months ago

What no Linux support?

rubenflamshep• 5 months ago

I wrote a local react app that lets you assign specific unit unit sounds from StarCraft II to different CC hooks: https://github.com/rubenflamshepherd/starcraft-claude

It also lets you manage Claude notifications more gracefully than what you get out of the box with CC. Been lazy about putting the finishing touches on it so this is a good kick in the ass to get that done!

novaleaf• 5 months ago

I'm building an agent wrapper over Claude Code, and use the "Jobs done" peon voice for notification (there are two variants).

For when user attention is needed, I play a few seconds of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". =D

a13n• 5 months ago

Oh man can't wait till Cursor allows you to customize sound effects.

Temanyl• 5 months ago

I love this so much <3

pratikbp• 5 months ago

This is so satisfying. A couple weeks ago I found myself reciting these lines (as well as some StarCraft MCV line) to myself. Thank you so much for doing this.

_alaya• 5 months ago

I think this is a really fun project, but even more importantly, I believe it’s a portent of things to come.

I really leaned into coding with agents last year, and after some time, it became evident to me that the vision now being pushed -- the "software factory" -- is where things will eventually end up. Building off that understanding, I began thinking about what interfaces would be necessary and useful for managing code and technology at that scale.

I keep coming back to the idea of a video game-like interface for managing all these agents and fleets of agents. Many of the information affordances in video games are reusable in other scenarios. So even though on the surface this project is 'just' a silly and fun enhancement, I think it’s actually a pretty serious contribution as well.

jasondigitized3• 5 months ago

This. Huge opportunity space for very creative UX moving forward.

4b11b4• 5 months ago

nice

codelikeawolf• 5 months ago

Bring in Starcraft sounds next please. I want to hear "YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS" when I hit my token limit.

gkhartman• 5 months ago

It's can a long time since I've heard those sound clips. Brings back a lot of great memories of playing WCIII as a teen. Didn't have the money at the time to play WoW, so I ended up playing Guild wars instead.

I never tried playing the WCIII reboot after hearing some pretty bad reviews.

sidravi1• 5 months ago

Is there an easy port of this for OpenCode?

0xbadcafebee• 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure I can imitate the goblin voice exactly, if anyone wants custom sound clips

jbetala7• 5 months ago

This is the kind of thing that makes developer tools fun again.

rexpop• 5 months ago

"Make X Y again" is a fascist dogwhistle.

yowlingcat• 5 months ago

Does this support when you click on a peon a bunch of times and it says "Me not that kind of Orc!"

dankle• 5 months ago

tars voice when??

putna• 5 months ago

Please do "Commandos" game characters: the Green Beret, the Sapper, the Sniper, the Driver, the Marine and the Spy

nzxt210• 5 months ago

Actually good staff

Xuzzo• 5 months ago

Genius

slickdifferent• 5 months ago

Every time I finish some mundane task I hear the Warcraft II "chores done" play in my head. Glad I'm not alone.

gladiatr72• 5 months ago

STOP POKING ME!

gleipnircode• 5 months ago

Love this. Takes me right back to my teenage years. Can someone please make a Dota 2 pack? Invoker alone would be perfect.

Session start: "I am a beacon of knowledge blazing out across a black sea of ignorance"

Task finished: "It falls to me to inform you that this one is in the bag"

When a failure occured: "My memory fails me"

I think i would get addicted to work again like in my past playing dota.

sincerely• 5 months ago

Ha, some of the dota voicelines are so long that claude might be able to finish the task before they finish playing

mvkel• 5 months ago

Related, I have a personal project that has several modules that run in a sequential pipeline. As each module is activated, an animated portrait avatar of a Starcraft II character appears, so at a glance, I can see which module is running at any one time. If I were hand-coding the app, this little 'feature' never would have existed, because it would have felt like a waste of dev calories. Now it's there because it's fun. Coding with AI will mark the return of whimsy in software.

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

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