Text to Speech

[NinjaPerson24119]

Validations

• [X] I believe this is a way to improve. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• [X] I'm not able to find an open issue that requests the same enhancement

Problem

My biggest bottleneck when coding is my typing speed.

I've been using https://github.com/ollama-webui/ollama-webui and find the text-to-speech incredibly useful. Until I can do the same thing in the IDE, it'll probably be faster to copy paste into my browser instead.

Solution

Add a hotkey + button on UI that can start text-to-speech.

[martnaum]

Same issue here. I accelerated by using the VS Code Speech plugin. It also works offline and there is no context switch between VS Code and the ollama-webui (which currently is the open-webui) any longer required on my end. I am quite confident that enabling the VS Code Speech within Continue would:

• separate responsibilities between Continue and the speech recognition in a better way
• heavily boost the developer experience
• be another USP for Continue

We should also consider if the VS Code Speech plugin can be configured in a way to work with Continue out of the box as it seems to support chat based and editor based speech to text. Sadly I am not that deep into VS Code currently to try that on my own.