Small adjustments

Author: robdmac

README.md

@@ -11,10 +11,20 @@ TalkiTo lets developers talk, slack and whatsapp with AI code editors. It can be
 git clone https://github.com/robdmac/talkito.git
 cd talkito
 
-pip install -e ".[all]"  # All features
+# Create and activate virtual environment (recommended)
+python3 -m venv venv
+source venv/bin/activate
 
+# Install system dependencies (macOS)
+brew install portaudio
+
+# Install package with all features
+pip install -e ".[all]"
+
+# Run this in a directory you want to use claude with
 talkito claude
 ```
+
 or for the web extension run as
 ```commandline
 talkito --mcp-sse-server

talkito/profiles.py

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def strip_symbols_from(self, text: str) -> str:
 CLAUDE_PROFILE = Profile(
     name='claude',
     response_prefix='⏺',
-    continuation_prefix=r'^\s+[a-zA-Z0-9]',
+    continuation_prefix=r'^\s+[\w()\'"]',
     question_prefix=r'│ Do',
     raw_skip_patterns=[
         r'\[38;5;153m│.*\[38;5;246m\d+',      # Box drawing + line numbers

talkito/tts.py

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def _base_log_message(level: str, message: str, logger_name: str = None):
 # Configuration constants
 MIN_SPEAK_LENGTH = 1  # Minimum characters before speaking
 CACHE_SIZE = 1000  # Cache size for similarity checking
-CACHE_TIMEOUT = 1800  # Seconds before a cached item can be spoken again
+CACHE_TIMEOUT = 18000  # Seconds before a cached item can be spoken again
 SIMILARITY_THRESHOLD = 0.85  # How similar text must be to be considered a repeat
 DEBOUNCE_TIME = 0.5  # Seconds to wait before speaking rapidly changing text