- Accessibility improvements - Accessible View support for notifications, chat responses, and hovers.
- VS Code Profiles - Finer control with partial profiles and “Apply to all profiles” options.
- New diff editor features - Collapse unchanged regions, better diff region text alignment.
- Git repositories with symlinks - Support for repository paths with symbolic links.
- Notebook updates - Search text in closed notebooks, “sticky scroll” displays Markdown headers.
- Python test discovery - Error tolerant pytest discovery continues across all files.
- Access Jupyter servers in GitHub Codespaces - Connect to a remote Jupyter server in a codespace.
- GitHub pull request creation - Better base branch detection, remember previous create PR options.
- Preview: GitHub Copilot UX - Quick Chat improvements, iterative /fix command.
Speaking of accessibility improvements in VS Code, does anyone know of a good way to use text to speech? I use this Read aloud TTS extension for web browsing, but would like to find an equivalent method in VS Code that lets me use different TTS voice engines the same way to listen to long markdown files or inline documentation.
probably easier to look for something OS wide.
I Googled for it quickly and found two hits that look promising
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner.speech
https://github.com/olefjaerestad/vscode-speech-to-text
I have no idea if these are good quality though as I don’t use tts. But hopefully one of them works out!