Talk to your Copilot. Out loud, hands-free.
Vox is a Copilot CLI extension that gives any session a voice. Run /vox, a reactive orb opens in its own window, and you just speak — it listens, the agent thinks, and the reply is read back to you.
Pure JavaScript · one slash-command · sibling to Engram & Anya
> irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aasis21/vox/main/install.ps1 | iex
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aasis21/vox/main/install.sh | bash
A voice canvas for any session.
Run /vox and a single, focused UI comes up with a reactive listening orb. Spoken turns route to the active session; replies are read back. No editor, no tab-juggling — just talk.
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Voice in.
Speak your turn. Your mic streams straight into the active Copilot session — no typing, no copy-paste.
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Voice out.
Hear every reply. Vox synthesizes the agent's answer and reads it aloud, so your eyes stay on the work.
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A reactive orb.
One living orb tells you everything — at rest, hearing you, thinking, or speaking, each with its own color and motion.
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Hands-free flow.
Grant the mic once and Vox opens straight into listening. Speak, pause, and it sends on its own.
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Interrupt to talk.
Barge in any time. Tap the orb, press
Esc, or hit Interrupt to cut the agent off and drop back into listening. - 06
Speaks typed replies too.
Prefer to type? Do it in the CLI — Vox still reads the assistant's reply aloud in the panel.
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Transcript on demand.
Open the 📜 panel to read the full back-and-forth, scroll the history, or clear it — without losing your place.
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Follows your sessions.
Many sessions can be live at once. The dropdown lists each one, and running
/voxelsewhere auto-switches the window to it. - 09
Its own window, any OS.
Opens as a standalone, chrome-less app window — not a browser tab. Pure JS, one-line install on Windows, macOS & Linux.
The orb speaks state.
Every moment of the conversation has a look. You always know whether Vox is hearing you, thinking, or talking — at a glance.
Esc to barge in.
At rest
Periwinkle and slowly swirling — tap to begin.
Listening
Green and pulsing with your mic level.
Thinking
Amber while the agent works on it.
Speaking
Blue while the reply is read aloud.
One line. That's it.
Requires Node.js and git on PATH. The bootstrap clones the repo and copies the extension into ~/.copilot/extensions/vox, where Copilot CLI auto-discovers it.
> irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aasis21/vox/main/install.ps1 | iex › cloning aasis21/vox → ~/vox › copying extension → ~/.copilot/extensions/vox ✓ › node check → v20+ ✓ done. start a Copilot session and run /vox.
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aasis21/vox/main/install.sh | bash › cloning aasis21/vox → ~/vox › copying extension → ~/.copilot/extensions/vox ✓ › node check → v20+ ✓ done. start a Copilot session and run /vox.
Simple machinery. No cloud.
A slash-command, a tiny local server, and a real browser window for the Web Speech APIs. Everything runs on your machine.
The panel opens as a standalone Chromium app window (Chrome, then Edge) so the Web Speech APIs work where Electron and native webviews can't.
Many sessions can be live at once; a monotonic focus token switches the window to whichever session ran /vox last. Override the browser with VOX_BROWSER.
Three you'll ever need.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| /vox | Start voice mode and make this session the active voice target. Opens the panel as its own window (falls back to localhost:4321). |
| /vox-stop | Stop Vox for this session and release its voice server. |
| /vox-who | List live Vox sessions and show which one is active. |