Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

If you use GitHub Copilot in VS Code, you already know how powerful it is.
But by default, Copilot only works with typed prompts. There is no built-in speech-to-text or text-to-speech experience.

Good news: this can be easily solved using the VS Code Speech extension.

What is VS Code Speech?

• VS Code Speech is an extension for Visual Studio Code that adds, adds speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities to Visual Studio Code.
• No internet connection is required.
• The voice audio data is processed locally on your computer.

Install VS Code Speech extension as shown below:

Once you install VS Code Speech, you can:

• Dictate prompts instead of typing
• Speak natural questions like: “Explain this function”, “Refactor this code for readability”, “Generate unit tests for this class”

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