VS Code Voice Commanding

A extremely experimental extension for VS Code that lets you execute a subset of the editor's commands with your voice using Microsoft's Cognitive Service Speech SDK

Requirements

• VS Code version 1.58.2 (any other versions must be running electron version 12.0.13)
• x64 Windows OS
• An Azure subscription key
• cmake
• nuget
• yarn

Building

Before building, you'll need to create an env file in the root directory that looks like this:

SUBSCRIPTION_KEY=your-azure-subscription-key-here
REGION=the-region-used-in-your-azure-account

To build and run the extension, execute the following commands:

• yarn - Install dependencies
• yarn native:configure - Configure C++ build
• yarn compile:all - Build C++ code and compile TS code
• F5 - Start the extension

In order to activate dictation, you'll need to have at least one file open. You should see a microphone icon at the top right of the editor. To get a sense of what commands and phrases you can say, take a look at command-map.ts and commanding.ts