Voice to Copilot

🎤 Control GitHub Copilot Chat with your voice!

Voice to Copilot is a VS Code extension that lets you dictate commands to GitHub Copilot Chat using your voice. It uses OpenAI Whisper for accurate speech-to-text transcription and optionally enhances your prompts with GPT before sending them to Copilot.

✨ Features

• 🎤 Clickable Microphone Button - A microphone icon in the status bar that you can click to start/stop recording
• 📊 Real-time Audio Level - Visual feedback showing your microphone input level
• 🗣️ OpenAI Whisper Transcription - Accurate voice-to-text conversion
• 🧠 GPT Prompt Enhancement - Cleans up and restructures your spoken commands
• 🤖 Copilot Integration - Sends transcribed text directly to GitHub Copilot Chat
• ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcut - Use Alt+V for quick access

📋 Requirements

• VS Code 1.85.0 or higher
• OpenAI API Key - Get one at platform.openai.com
• GitHub Copilot Chat - The extension installed and active
• SoX - For audio recording (see installation below)

Installing SoX (Sound eXchange)

Windows:

choco install sox.portable

macOS:

brew install sox

Linux:

sudo apt-get install sox alsa-utils

🚀 Installation

1. Install from the VS Code Marketplace
2. Restart VS Code
3. Configure your OpenAI API key in Settings > Voice to Copilot > API Key

⚙️ Configuration

Open VS Code Settings (Ctrl+,) and search for "Voice to Copilot":

🎯 Usage

Using the Status Bar Button

1. Look at the bottom of VS Code
2. Click the 🎤 Voice button to start recording
3. Speak your command
4. Click again to stop and send to Copilot

Using the Keyboard Shortcut

1. Press Alt+V to start recording
2. Speak your command
3. Press Alt+V again to stop and send

Using the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)

• Voice to Copilot: Start Recording
• Voice to Copilot: Stop and Send to Copilot
• Voice to Copilot: Toggle Voice Recording

🔧 Troubleshooting

Audio not recording

• Make sure SoX is installed and in your PATH
• Check your microphone is connected and selected as default
• Try running sox --version in terminal to verify installation

API key error

• Ensure your OpenAI API key is valid and has credits
• Check the key starts with sk-

Copilot Chat doesn't receive the message

• Ensure GitHub Copilot Chat extension is installed
• The text is also copied to clipboard - you can paste manually

📄 License

MIT License - See LICENSE for details.

🔗 Links

• Source Code
• Report Issues
• OpenAI API

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