Needle Remote vs Giggy Speech
Giggy Speech is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑15.
Needle Remote is an MCP server published by docker. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Docker MCP Catalog). Giggy Speech is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Giggy. No marketplace we read lists it any more. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-23. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Needle Remote | |
|---|---|---|
| Docker MCP Catalog | Listed Version: not stated No figure published Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace giggy-ai/giggy-mcp | Not listed | Removed on 2026-10-15 Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Needle Remote | Giggy Speechno longer listed · |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | No figure on GitHub | 0 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | No figure on GitHub | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (mcp.needle.app/mcp) | Remote server (giggy.ai/mcp) |
| Transport | Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 1, secrets among them: 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not a bundle | 2 |
| Licence (differs) | Apache-2.0 | ISC |
| Repository (differs) | Not stated | github.com/giggy-ai/giggy-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-13 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Answered with HTTP 301 (6 days ago) | no remote endpoint we check |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of Giggy Speech
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Give Claude Code a voice with multi-engine text-to-speech. Speaks responses aloud using 5 TTS engines (edge-tts, ElevenLabs, Kokoro, macOS say, espeak-ng). Free by default…
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This skill converts text to high-quality audio files using ElevenLabs API. Use this skill when users request text-to-spe
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Manage ElevenLabs voice agents and generate speech, music, sound effects, images, and video.
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elevenlabs com.mcparmory/elevenlabs
Convert text to speech, transcribe audio, and dub videos with AI voices
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Multi-engine TTS for AI coding assistants. 5 engines, free engine included.
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Skills for preprocessing text for TTS engines — SSML conversion, ElevenLabs markup (grounded in live ElevenLabs prompting docs), TTS safety review, and manual prosody addition…
What each says it does
Needle Remote
Production-ready RAG service to search and retrieve data from your documents.
Giggy Speech
Connect Giggy text-to-speech tools to Claude Code for voice-agent development.
How to run each
Needle Remote As a remote MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http needle https://mcp.needle.app/mcpRequires: NEEDLE_API_KEY (secret)
Giggy Speech
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only Needle Remote has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of Giggy Speech publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: Needle Remote · What it can do: Giggy Speech · Compare two other plugins
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