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Voxtype Pulse

by majesticio

Hold-to-dictate from the Omarchy bar with Voxtype's live microphone waveform

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Security review

No obvious issues detected

Deterministic scan — not a security guarantee

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86e3cf3
Scanned
1 month ago

No potentially dangerous behavior detected in the analyzed commit.

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AI advisory review

No obvious issues detected

Language-model assessment · ~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest — advisory only

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Recommendation
install
Model
~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest
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86e3cf3
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1 month ago

This is a straightforward bar widget that invokes the user-installed Voxtype CLI and audio bridge to provide a hold-to-dictate button with a waveform. No obfuscation, persistence, credential access, or destructive actions were found; the code is transparent and matches its documented behavior.

How this check works

This review combines the deterministic scan (the rule-based results above) with an independent look at the plugin's code by a language model. The model reads a trimmed sample of the repository's files, the manifest, and the README, then gives a plain-language risk level and a recommendation: install (no notable danger), review (look closer first), or avoid (clearly dangerous).

It runs on the same analyzed commit as the deterministic scan and is strictly advisory — it is not a security guarantee and never blocks a plugin by itself. A human moderator still reviews plugins before they are listed.

AI advisory only — automated analysis, not a security guarantee.

Install
$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/majesticio/omarchy-voxtype-pulse-plugin --enable
Widgets #bar #quickshell

Voxtype Pulse

Voxtype Pulse is a theme-aware Omarchy bar widget for Voxtype. Hold its microphone button to dictate; while recording, the button opens into Voxtype's live microphone waveform. Release to transcribe into the application that already has keyboard focus.

Voxtype Pulse recording in the Omarchy bar

Design

  • Press and hold the bar button to run voxtype record start.
  • Release anywhere to run voxtype record stop.
  • A masked, transparent layer surface observes only the widget's pointer area and explicitly requests no keyboard focus.
  • The focused application therefore remains Voxtype's transcription target.
  • Recording state follows omarchy-voxtype-status.
  • Waveform samples come from Voxtype's official voxtype-audio-bridge.
  • Colors follow the active Omarchy theme.
  • Right-click opens Voxtype's configuration interface.

The visualizer is only present while recording. During transcription, the widget collapses to a compact processing state, then returns to its idle microphone icon.

Requirements

  • Omarchy with shell plugin support
  • Voxtype with its user service configured and running
  • voxtype-audio-bridge (included with current Voxtype packages)

Installation

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/majesticio/omarchy-voxtype-pulse-plugin.git --enable

Remove it with:

omarchy plugin remove io.github.majesticio.voxtype-pulse

Voxtype's own floating OSD remains independent. To use the bar waveform as its replacement, add this to ~/.config/voxtype/config.toml and restart voxtype.service:

[osd]
enabled = false

Re-enable the original popup at any time by changing the value to true.

Settings

The Omarchy bar editor exposes waveform width, waveform gain, and recording-timer visibility.

Development

omarchy plugin validate .
/usr/lib/qt6/bin/qmllint BarWidget.qml Waveform.qml
env -u DISPLAY -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY QT_QPA_PLATFORM=minimal \
  QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME= QT_QUICK_BACKEND=software \
  /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qmltestrunner -input tests -o -,txt

Attribution

Voxtype Pulse uses Voxtype's public audio-bridge protocol and adapts the waveform ring-buffer and rendering approach from Voxtype's MIT-licensed Quickshell OSD. See NOTICE.

License

MIT