Vox - Voice in, voice out β with GitHub Copilot
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Vox is a GitHub Copilot CLI extension: run /vox and a reactive listening orb opens in its own window. Speak your turn, hear the agent reply. Voice in, voice out β on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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voice in / voice out for coding is the interface i keep wanting β the friction was always latency and round-tripping audio to a server. are you running the speech piece locally or in the cloud? been deep in on-device voice on my side and the tradeoffs are brutal.
@sabber_ahamed Totally hear you β Vox is 100% cloud for speech today, riding the browser's native Web Speech API, so it round-trips to Google's servers, not on-device. Zero extra latency/infra from Vox itself, but no offline mode yet β a local/offline (Whisper-based) option is on the roadmap.
How does it handle background noise or interruptions mid-conversation, and is there any kind of wake-word or do I have to trigger it manually each time I want to talk to the agent?
Ashish, the hands free angle speaks to me more than I'd have guessed. Some days my wrists are done and the thought of just talking through what I want sounds like a real relief. Love that it grew from an accessibility idea too.