Voice
Calls, voice notes, dictation and read-aloud: what each needs, and the voices you can pick.
Pick a voice
Step 1
Open Voice & alerts
Open Bot settingsVoice & alerts.
You're done when: you see the Voice engine and Voice choices.
Step 2
Choose the voice engine
Voice engine is where the voice comes from.
- Flux: 41 voices through your Flux Router account, billed per character. No other key needed.
- OpenAI: speaks through your own OpenAI key.
- xAI: xAI's 28 voices, through your own xAI key or through Flux.
- ElevenLabs: with your own ElevenLabs API key.
- Built-in Mac voices or Built-in Windows voices: free, and no key needed.
You're done when: the engine you want is selected.
Step 3
Pick a voice and listen
Voice: pick one. Flux voices are grouped as female, male and neutral, each with an accent and a short description. Every voice in the list has its own play button, so you can hear it before you pick it. You can search the list and filter it.
Read replies aloud: speak every reply from this bot.
Every voice speaks every language.
You're done when: you heard it and picked one.
Calls
Call any bot from the phone button at the top of its chat. It answers from its first sentence, looks things up on the web while you talk, and hands real work to its own engine. Talk over it or say "stop" to interrupt. Approve requests out loud; "yes for the rest of the call" covers ordinary requests. When you hang up, a note of the call is left in the chat.
EmberCalls work on Mac, Windows and Linux.
- On a Mac, Murage listens with Apple's on-device speech recognition. Allow Microphone and Speech Recognition when asked.
- On Windows and Linux, Murage transcribes what you said through Flux, or your own Groq or OpenAI key. It hears you about 1.5 to 3 seconds after you stop, with no live words.
You can also call a channel; every member needs a voice first. Calls are in the app only. There are no phone-number calls.
Step by step: Call your team.
Voice notes
Ask a bot for a voice note, or it may send one when you'd rather hear the answer. It arrives as an audio message in the bot's own voice, up to about 90 seconds, and is saved to its files. Voice notes from your Chief of Staff also go to Telegram, Slack or Discord when you're talking to it there.
Voice notes need an engine that can use Murage's tools.
Voice notes in your chat apps
Ask your Chief of Staff for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp and it sends one in its own voice, with the detail in text if it's long. On WhatsApp you can send a voice message as well, and Murage turns it into text for your Chief. Telegram, Slack and Discord read text messages, so write to your Chief there. Murage must be running on your computer.
Dictation
Use the microphone in the message box to talk instead of type.
- On a Mac, dictation uses Apple's on-device recognition. It's free and stays on your computer.
- Elsewhere, hold to talk, and a Flux transcription comes back.
You can also attach an audio file and have it transcribed with Flux.