lbaune

This has been around for years. I don't understand what the news is?

Super inspiring idea. Could be useful in an internal knowledgebase where information often gets quite messy and unmaintained over time (I've met a few of those gargantuan Confluence-installations).

The interesting technical problem here turned out not to be speech recognition but script alignment.

ASR output arrives in ~600 ms chunks and is messy (filler words, homophones, skipped phrases). A simple substring match breaks immediately.

The current tracker uses:

- inverted token index to find candidate windows - banded Levenshtein distance for fuzzy matching - Double Metaphone phonetic normalization - locality penalties to stay near the current position

Between ASR updates the UI speculatively advances the cursor based on measured WPM so the highlight moves smoothly.

Curious if anyone here has worked on similar real-time alignment problems.

Anticipating a common question: this doesn’t bypass Copilot’s licensing or give you “free” access. You still need an active Copilot subscription, and the bridge just exposes it as a local API. Think of it as a shim: Copilot stays the backend, this just makes it usable from scripts, CLIs, or tools that expect an OpenAI-style interface.

I’ve tried to keep the project in the spirit of extending Copilot’s usefulness without abusing the service. Feedback on where the line should be drawn is welcome.