Text to speech does not work on W11 via Terminal (PS7)/CMD

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This is not the same issue as the voice "mode" does not turn on in the first place.

Also, this is not app related, unsure why that was added.

+1

Having the same issues when running via WSL. Holding space just lets the cursor go all the way to the side.

Do you have the feature enabled (feature.voice_transcription = true)?

Do you have the feature enabled (feature.voice_transcription = true)?

I have tested this in WSL and PowerShell, speech recognition cannot be triggered properly under WT.exe （even the key is true: feature.voice_transcription = true

<img width="1908" height="233" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b22aede9-a73d-4537-bbe6-45c957656192" />

Yep, restarted everything, made sure voice_transcription = true is part of the [features] in the config.toml.
Now it does show the little animation that it's reading/transcribing but no output.

Not related to this but adding the toml flag to enable new features that are shown in the release notes would be handy as well to squash false positive reports.

> Do you have the feature enabled (feature.voice_transcription = true)? I have tested this in WSL and PowerShell, speech recognition cannot be triggered properly under WT.exe （even the key is true: feature.voice_transcription = true <img alt="Image" width="1908" height="233" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/115849429/555026929-b22aede9-a73d-4537-bbe6-45c957656192.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzIwNjQ1MzcsIm5iZiI6MTc3MjA2NDIzNywicGF0aCI6Ii8xMTU4NDk0MjkvNTU1MDI2OTI5LWIyMmFlZGU5LWE3M2QtNDUzNy1iYmU2LTQ1Yzk1NzY1NjE5Mi5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwMjI2JTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDIyNlQwMDAzNTdaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT1mZTU2ZDZiMTI2NmJjOWY3OWVkZDJlMWE3ZWRiYzFmM2RiOWRiMDZmMjhkYTQwM2U5NmFjNjNkNzc0NDY4MTg5JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.qv1sSf8SGy6zZI_Y8argRAIUaXrJIk9Cua3Wy10SDH0">

feature should be features (with s) ?

XX@XX:/mnt/d/Dev/$ codex features list | rg voice_transcription
voice_transcription under development true
XX@XX:/mnt/d/Dev/$

> > Do you have the feature enabled (feature.voice_transcription = true)? > > > I have tested this in WSL and PowerShell, speech recognition cannot be triggered properly under WT.exe （even the key is true: feature.voice_transcription = true > <img alt="Image" width="1908" height="233" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/115849429/555026929-b22aede9-a73d-4537-bbe6-45c957656192.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzIwNjQ1MzcsIm5iZiI6MTc3MjA2NDIzNywicGF0aCI6Ii8xMTU4NDk0MjkvNTU1MDI2OTI5LWIyMmFlZGU5LWE3M2QtNDUzNy1iYmU2LTQ1Yzk1NzY1NjE5Mi5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwMjI2JTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDIyNlQwMDAzNTdaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT1mZTU2ZDZiMTI2NmJjOWY3OWVkZDJlMWE3ZWRiYzFmM2RiOWRiMDZmMjhkYTQwM2U5NmFjNjNkNzc0NDY4MTg5JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.qv1sSf8SGy6zZI_Y8argRAIUaXrJIk9Cua3Wy10SDH0"> feature should be features ?

yes i tried to put it at the [feature],
The animation works, but TTS doesn’t work

maybe it has something to do with audio devices availability in WSL:
/dev/snd and /proc/asound
just guessing...
not working in my WSL

Well, I speak something to animation is changing. I’m sure it reach my microphone. But tts doesn’t work

Yep, restarted everything, made sure voice_transcription = true is part of the [features] in the config.toml. Now it does show the little animation that it's reading/transcribing but no output. Not related to this but adding the toml flag to enable new features that are shown in the release notes would be handy as well to squash false positive reports.

Seeing you, a Dota 2 Fellower here JJ was not on my Bingo list :D

Can you check in .codex/log/codex-tui.log if there is an error like that: I saw that in another issue and i have the same.

2026-02-25T22:36:11.143524Z ERROR codex_tui::voice: voice transcription error: transcription failed: 403 Forbidden <!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment...</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;

Seems like Cloudflare - or whatever the protection is they use - is blocking the request.

Can you check in .codex/log/codex-tui.log if there is an error like that: I saw that in another issue and i have the same. 2026-02-25T22:36:11.143524Z ERROR codex_tui::voice: voice transcription error: transcription failed: 403 Forbidden <title>Just a moment...</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;

Ah yep, you are correct @Akrelion45 !

2026-02-25T23:03:28.469084Z ERROR codex_tui::voice: voice transcription error: transcription failed: 403 Forbidden <!DOCTYPE html>

Alrighty, my bad, can be closed in favor of https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/12804 I suppose.

Also, hi! <3