Running a Fully Local Voice Pipeline for Claude Code on RHEL 10 with Intel GPU Acceleration (opens in new tab)

I’ve been running Claude Code as my daily driver for software engineering work. It’s powerful, but typing every command gets tedious. I wanted voice interaction — speak to Claude, hear it respond — but without sending my audio to the cloud. Here’s how I got a fully local voice pipeline running on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon with RHEL 10, including GPU acceleration on the Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics.