I've installed the VS Code Speech extension and love it, but I have some problems with its output.
I suffer from stammering, which means that I often have lengthy pauses in the middle of my sentences. VS Code Speech treats these pauses as the ends of sentences, so the output requires lots of post-editing.
I know how to write VS Code extensions. Is there a way I can access the speech-to-text API? For example, in my extension, instead of having periods and commas automatically inserted into the output, I would like to be able to explicitly dictate their positions using spoken words.
I don't think so? / ... technically? The VS Code Speech extension uses the Azure Speech Services SDK through the @vscode/node-speech NPM package. As far as I know, at the time of this writing, VS Code's extension API does not expose anything to do with speech.
So... you could