Voice Messages
Record a voice message in Discord and Kimaki transcribes it, then processes it as a normal prompt. Speaking is often faster than typing a long instruction, especially from your phone.
How it works
voice ──▶ transcription ──▶ "📝 Transcribed" ──▶ session ▲ │ project file tree for accuracy
- You record a voice note in the thread.
- Kimaki sends the audio to a transcription model.
- The transcribed text appears in the thread prefixed with 📝 Transcribed message: and is sent to the agent.
Accuracy from your project file tree
Transcription of code is hard: file names and function names are not normal words. Kimaki improves accuracy by feeding the project's file tree into the transcription prompt, so when you say a file path or a function name, the model recognizes it from your actual codebase.
Say file and function names naturally. Because the transcriber sees your file list, "open thread session runtime" is far more likely to come back as
thread-session-runtime.ts.Models and setup
Kimaki auto-detects the provider from the API key you configure for audio:
- OpenAI key (starts with
sk-) → usesgpt-audio. - Gemini key → uses
gemini-2.5-flash.
You'll be prompted for an audio API key during setup, or you can add one later from Discord when you first send a voice message.
Sending audio back
Kimaki can also speak: when you ask for audio of some text, the agent can generate speech with
kimaki tts and post it to the thread. See the Commands reference for the tts and upload-to-discord CLI subcommands.