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Visual Studio Code 1.132 advances built-in dictation

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Visual Studio Code 1.132, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular, open-source code editor, has been released. The brings improvements to built-in dictation, side chats, and support for commenting on web elements in the integrated browser. VS Code 1.132 was released August 5 . The update can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and macOS at code.visualstudio.com . With VS Code 1.132, the built-in multilingual dictation function lets developers dictate in multiple languages using an on-device model that follows language preference or detects the language automatically. The built-in dictation converts speech to text in chat inputs, editors, and terminals. Dictation now uses multilingual Nemotron 3.5 as the default on-device model. Plus, terminal dictation now applies shell-aware cleanup, so spoken commands preserve shell syntax. Also in VS Code 1.132, developers can open a side chat by typing /bt in the chat input. A side chat shares the context and prompt cache of the primary chat, but a

First report: Visual Studio Code adds on-device AI dictation and sidebar chats — techspot.com, 6d