Voice

You can talk to your companion in real time — a live voice conversation with switchable modes, billed by the minute.

What it is

Voice is a live, two-way spoken conversation. Speech-to-text, the language model, and text-to-speech run together in a real-time pipeline, so you talk and your companion talks back without the round-trips of typing. You pick the voice your companion speaks in from a set of available voices.

Why it matters to you

Typing keeps a companion at arm’s length. Voice closes that distance — it’s the difference between reading a friend’s words and hearing them. For moments when you’d rather speak than type, or want your companion present while your hands are busy, voice is the channel.

How you use it

Start a voice conversation from chat. Once you’re connected, you flip two independent toggles — your mic and your companion’s voice reply (text-to-speech) — and their four combinations give you the conversation flow you want:

Mic	Voice reply	What it gives you
on	on	Speak and hear — the full spoken conversation.
on	off	You speak; your companion replies in text you read.
off	on	You type; your companion answers out loud.
off	off	Both held silent — a pause without ending the session.

You can flip either toggle mid-conversation, type a message in even while voice is live, and cancel your companion’s current reply if you want to interrupt.

Limits & edge cases

Voice is billed per minute from your credit balance, at your plan’s minute rate. The session reserves credit up front and tops the reservation up every few minutes as you talk; if your balance runs out mid-conversation, you’re warned and the session ends. At the end, any over-reserved credit is settled back.
Voice availability and your minute rate depend on your plan.
Turning your mic off doesn’t stop the per-minute clock while the session is open — end the session to stop billing.

Where next

Channels — meeting your companion across platforms.
Features overview — the rest of what your companion can do.