vox

Voice comments for your terminal. Push-to-talk for Claude Code, Cursor, and any CLI.

Install

pip install vox-cli

Quick Start

# One-shot: speak and get text
vox say

# Push-to-talk daemon (hold Right Alt to record)
vox listen

# List audio devices
vox devices

Features

• Local-first — runs Whisper locally, no cloud API calls
• Code-aware cleaning — fixes capitalization of API, JSON, None, etc.
• Voice casing — say "snake case my variable name" → my_variable_name
• Multiple outputs — clipboard (default), stdout, or simulated paste
• Push-to-talk — configurable hotkey, silence detection auto-stops

Options

vox listen --model small      # tiny|base|small|medium
vox listen --output stdout    # clipboard|stdout|paste
vox listen --key f5           # any modifier or function key
vox say --duration 15         # max recording seconds
vox --verbose listen          # debug logging

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• A microphone
• macOS: grant Terminal Accessibility permission for hotkey support

License

MIT