A compact, theme-aware Voxtype dictation overlay for Omarchy.
Aura appears at the top-center of the focused monitor while Voxtype is active:
- LISTENING with live microphone-level bars while recording.
- TRANSCRIBING with a sweeping animation while processing speech.
- TRANSCRIBED with a brief check mark after successful transcription.
- Hidden when Voxtype is idle.
It follows Omarchy's active colors, typography, spacing, and corner radius. The layer-shell surface never takes keyboard focus, accepts no pointer input, and does not reserve screen space.
- Omarchy with shell-plugin support.
- Voxtype running as
voxtype.service. omarchy-voxtype-statusavailable onPATH.voxtype-audio-bridgeavailable onPATH.
Disable Voxtype's built-in OSD in ~/.config/voxtype/config.toml:
[osd]
enabled = falseRestart Voxtype:
systemctl --user restart voxtype.serviceInstall and enable Aura:
omarchy plugin add https://github.com/adamcbrewer/voxtype-aura.git --enableomarchy plugin remove io.github.adamcbrewer.voxtype-auraTo restore Voxtype's built-in display, set [osd] enabled = true and restart
voxtype.service.
Aura is a keep-loaded Omarchy service plugin. It follows Voxtype's status stream
through omarchy-voxtype-status and reads live microphone levels from
voxtype-audio-bridge. A valid transition from transcribing to an
inactive state briefly shows the completion state. Unexpected or unavailable
status data fails closed by hiding the overlay. If either process exits while
needed, Aura retries it after one second.
Voxtype Aura was inspired by Jon Henshaw's Voxtype Prism, particularly its compact, theme-aware recording indicators and Omarchy layer-shell integration. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for license attribution.
Omarchy plugins run unsandboxed inside the long-lived omarchy-shell process.
Review plugin code before enabling it. Aura runs two fixed local commands,
accepts no user input, performs no network requests, and reads no credentials.