[External Plugin]: voice-anywhere

Plugin name

voice-anywhere

Short description

Hold a key, speak, release: your words are typed wherever the cursor is, in any Windows app. Local faster-whisper transcription (no audio or text leaves the machine), read-aloud and an always-on tray indicator; Copilot installs and tunes it for you.

GitHub repository

stevemarksava/voice-anywhere

Plugin path inside the repository

plugins/voice-anywhere

Ref to review

v0.2.2

Commit SHA to review

73fb38dced4ed54ce99f9da5ea963a6d17f26356

Version

0.2.2

License identifier

MIT

Author name

Steve Marks (Avanade)

Author URL

https://github.com/stevemarksava

Homepage URL

https://github.com/stevemarksava/voice-anywhere

Keywords

voice
dictation
speech-to-text
push-to-talk
whisper
accessibility
windows
offline
privacy

Additional notes for reviewers

Windows-only (Python 3.12+). The bundled skill guides Copilot to install, tune and troubleshoot a local push-to-talk dictation tool. Before release it was red-teamed and QA-reviewed (reports in .squad/reviews/). Verified: copilot plugin marketplace add + copilot plugin install work from GitHub, and @microsoft/vally-cli lint passes on v0.2.2. Note for reviewers: it uses a global keyboard hook to detect the talk key, which endpoint-security tools may flag; this is documented in the README.

Submission checklist

The plugin lives in a public GitHub repository.
The ref and/or sha I provided is immutable (release tag and/or full 40-character commit SHA), not a branch.
This submission follows this repository's contribution, security, and responsible AI policies.
This plugin is not already listed in the Awesome Copilot marketplace.

✅ External plugin intake passed

This submission passed automated intake validation and quality checks and is ready for maintainer review.

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Plugin: voice-anywhere
Repository: https://github.com/stevemarksava/voice-anywhere
Ref: v0.2.2
SHA: 73fb38dced4ed54ce99f9da5ea963a6d17f26356

Reviewer signals

These are non-blocking heuristics for maintainer review; they are not evidence of misconduct or low quality.

Signal	Result
Repository age	0 day(s)
Repository activity	repository is 0 day(s) old; 0 stars; 0 watchers; 0 forks
Repository counts	0 stars · 0 watchers · 0 forks · 0 open issues/PRs
Homepage heuristics	⚠️ pricing

Quality gate summary

Legend: ✅ pass · ⚠️ warning · 🛑 fail

Gate	Status
spec compliance	✅ pass
vally lint	✅ pass
install smoke test	✅ pass
version match	✅ pass
ref/sha consistency	✅ pass
canvas structure	⚪ not_run

spec compliance: pass
vally lint: pass
install smoke test: pass
version match: pass
ref/sha consistency: pass
canvas structure: not_run
overall: pass

spec compliance output (✅ pass)

Agent Plugins v1.0.0 manifest checks passed for plugin.json.

vally lint output (✅ pass)

✅ voice-anywhere (2/2 checks passed)
    ✓ [spec-compliance] All 1 skill(s) are spec-compliant.
        ✓ spec-compliance: All spec checks passed.
    ✓ [valid-refs] All file references across 1 skill(s) are valid.
        ✓ valid-refs: All file references resolve to existing files within the skill directory.

1 skill(s) linted, 1 passed

install smoke test output (✅ pass)

Install smoke test succeeded. Verified /tmp/external-plugin-quality-dfqIDO/copilot-home/.copilot/installed-plugins/external-plugin-intake/voice-anywhere/plugin.json.

Version match output

- v0.2.2: matched version "0.2.2" at "plugins/voice-anywhere/plugin.json".
- 73fb38dced4ed54ce99f9da5ea963a6d17f26356: matched version "0.2.2" at "plugins/voice-anywhere/plugin.json".

Ref/SHA consistency output

source.ref "v0.2.2" resolves to the same commit as source.sha "73fb38dced4ed54ce99f9da5ea963a6d17f26356".

Canvas structure output

Canvas structure gate skipped because plugin is not tagged with "canvas".

Canonical external.json payload

{
  "name": "voice-anywhere",
  "description": "Hold a key, speak, release: your words are typed wherever the cursor is, in any Windows app. Local faster-whisper transcription (no audio or text leaves the machine), read-aloud and an always-on tray indicator; Copilot installs and tunes it for you.",
  "version": "0.2.2",
  "author": {
    "name": "Steve Marks (Avanade)",
    "url": "https://github.com/stevemarksava"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/stevemarksava/voice-anywhere",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/stevemarksava/voice-anywhere",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "voice",
    "dictation",
    "speech-to-text",
    "push-to-talk",
    "whisper",
    "accessibility",
    "windows",
    "offline",
    "privacy"
  ],
  "source": {
    "source": "github",
    "repo": "stevemarksava/voice-anywhere",
    "path": "plugins/voice-anywhere",
    "ref": "v0.2.2",
    "sha": "73fb38dced4ed54ce99f9da5ea963a6d17f26356"
  }
}

/reject Copilot CLI already has built-in local voice input (/voice) and VS Code has built-in on-device dictation for chat, editors and terminals, and the README only compares against Windows' Win+H and Voice Access, not these. What this adds is a Windows-only desktop dictation app, and the skill is install and troubleshooting notes for that app (including having the agent set up an always-on background process with a global keyboard hook via -Startup, marked as recommended), so it doesn't change how Copilot works. The submission also only shows that the plugin installs, not the skill being used in Copilot, so there's nothing demonstrating value over the built-in options. That's not a fit for this marketplace.

❌ External plugin rejected

A maintainer rejected voice-anywhere, and the submission issue has been closed.

Reason

Copilot CLI already has built-in local voice input (/voice) and VS Code has built-in on-device dictation for chat, editors and terminals, and the README only compares against Windows' Win+H and Voice Access, not these. What this adds is a Windows-only desktop dictation app, and the skill is install and troubleshooting notes for that app (including having the agent set up an always-on background process with a global keyboard hook via -Startup, marked as recommended), so it doesn't change how Copilot works. The submission also only shows that the plugin installs, not the skill being used in Copilot, so there's nothing demonstrating value over the built-in options. That's not a fit for this marketplace.

This issue is now closed and /rerun-intake will no longer reopen it. If you address the feedback, please open a new external plugin submission issue.

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