About Talkform
Talkform is a config-driven audio intake tool for teams that need structured form responses. It conducts conversational interviews and turns answers into form fields and JSON-ready session results.
Key features
- 01Conversational audio interviews
- 02Config-defined fields
- 03Structured form value binding
- 04JSON-ready session results
- 05React widget and CLI
Use cases
- 01Collecting intake answers by voice
- 02Embedding audio forms in React products
MCP support
Its local MCP server provides schemas, templates, and config validation.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://www.talkform.ai/api/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http msanchezgrice-talkform https://www.talkform.ai/api/mcp{"mcpServers":{"msanchezgrice-talkform":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.talkform.ai/api/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"msanchezgrice-talkform":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.talkform.ai/api/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"msanchezgrice-talkform":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.talkform.ai/api/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"msanchezgrice-talkform":{"serverUrl":"https://www.talkform.ai/api/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
3This tool takes no parameters.
Details
From the project READMETalkform
Turn any form into a live audio interview.
Talkform is a config-driven audio intake utility. Products define the fields they need, Talkform asks for them conversationally, binds structured values directly into the form, and exports JSON-ready session results.
Workspace
apps/web: hosted app fortalkform.aipackages/core: config schema, realtime prompt/tool generation, session/result helperspackages/react: embeddable React widgetpackages/http: process-local transient session and HTTP helperspackages/cli: agent-friendly CLIpackages/mcp: local MCP schema, template, and config-validation serverdocs: markdown documentation rendered in the web app
Core commands
pnpm install
pnpm dev
pnpm build
pnpm typecheck
Environment
OPENAI_API_KEYOPENAI_REALTIME_MODELdefaultgpt-realtime-2.1OPENAI_REALTIME_VOICEdefaultmarinTALKFORM_ENABLE_IMPORT_AI_REFINEMENToptional; onlytrueenables paid AI copy refinement after deterministic importNEXT_PUBLIC_AUDIOFORM_VENDORNEXT_PUBLIC_AUDIOFORM_VENDOR_URL
Transient session APIs and public Realtime client-secret issuance are disabled in hosted production by default. A production deployment needs a durable session store, a distributed rate limiter, and server authentication before those endpoints should be enabled. The current in-memory store and quotas are development/reference implementations; they do not provide cross-instance durability or enforcement.
Machine clients use two matching environment variables:
TALKFORM_API_TOKEN: server-only bearer token accepted by the web APIAUDIOFORM_API_TOKEN: client-side token read by the Talkform CLI
For a controlled deployment, TALKFORM_ENABLE_IN_MEMORY_SESSIONS=true and TALKFORM_ENABLE_PUBLIC_REALTIME=true opt into the reference endpoints. Do not use these flags to represent the current process-local implementations as production-ready infrastructure.
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