Voice Prompting for Coding Agents

You are deep in a coding session with Claude Code, aider, or another terminal agent. You know exactly what you want — a refactor across three files, a test for an edge case, a design question — but typing a detailed prompt takes longer than the thought itself. With Voxclip you speak the instruction, and the transcript lands on your clipboard ready to paste.

How it works

You speak into your microphone.
Voxclip records and transcribes locally using an open-source speech model.
The transcript is copied to your clipboard.
You paste it into your coding agent’s prompt.

No audio leaves your machine. No cloud API. Works offline.

Quick start

Source the helper function and start prompting by voice:

source examples/vprompt-interactive.sh

vprompt_interactive
# Speak, then press Enter to stop.
# Paste into your agent with Cmd+V / Ctrl+Shift+V.

Add it to your shell profile (~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc) so it is always available:

source /path/to/voxclip/examples/vprompt-interactive.sh

Variants

One-shot invocation — pass a voice prompt directly as a command argument:

source examples/vprompt.sh

claude "$(vprompt)"
aider --message "$(vprompt)"

Recording lasts a fixed duration (default 10 seconds, configurable via VPROMPT_DURATION).

Auto-paste hotkey — bind vpaste.sh to a global shortcut so you can speak and have the transcript pasted into the active window automatically, no terminal interaction needed.

Next steps

See the Examples reference for platform-specific hotkey setup (macOS/GNOME/KDE), all environment variables, and the mixed text-plus-voice workflow.