Voice comments for your terminal. Push-to-talk for Claude Code, Cursor, and any CLI.
pip install vox-cli# One-shot: speak and get text
vox say
# Push-to-talk daemon (hold Right Alt to record)
vox listen
# List audio devices
vox devices- 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
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
- Python 3.10+
- A microphone
- macOS: grant Terminal Accessibility permission for hotkey support
MIT