Voice

Press a shortcut, say a task, press it again. Hover shows what it heard, the folder, the agent and its access, then starts a new chat after a short countdown (five seconds unless you change it).

#Setting it up

1. Add your projects (Settings → Projects): the folders voice may work in, and the other names you might say for them. See Projects.
2. Pick how speech becomes text (Settings → Voice), below.
3. Optionally add cleanup. Gemini, OpenAI or any OpenAI-compatible service, with your key and model, fixes punctuation and filler words. If it fails, the original text is used.
4. Talk. Press Ctrl + Alt + Space (you can change it; on a Mac it is Control-Option-Space and fixed) to start listening, speak, and press it again to finish. If you would rather hold the keys down, set Settings → Voice → Voice Recording Mode to “Hold to speak”.

Voice uses your default agent, the one last picked in the new-task circle, with that agent’s own model and settings.

#Local or cloud

Hover never switches between the two on its own. Check key tests a Groq key before you rely on it.

#What the local model needs

The model itself is 164 MB. The rest is the private Python and PyTorch runtime that Phonon’s engine needs; Hover keeps it in its own folder and never touches a system Python. Windows also needs the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64), and the card says so before anything is downloaded. Remove deletes the whole install.

#Starting, editing, cancelling

• Hover shows what it heard, the project it matched, the agent and its access, then counts down. Settings → Voice → Start on its own sets the wait: Off, 3, 5 (the default) or 10 seconds.
• Edit the task to stop the countdown, then press Start when you’re ready.
• Change the folder. The folder pick on the card opens a list of your voice projects and the default workspace. Changing it stops the countdown, so press Start when you’re ready.
• Esc cancels.
• Settings → Voice → Try it shows what would start, without starting anything.

#The aura

While Hover is listening or working on what you said, the card shows only an aura: a glowing ring of light, with no words. It swirls and swells with your voice while you speak, and swirls faster with a pulse while Hover works. Esc still cancels. Pick its colour in Settings → Voice → Aura colour, by name or with any hex colour.

#Attaching screenshots

Say “take a screenshot” (or “take a screenshot of this”) while you speak, and Hover takes a picture of your screen and sends it with the task. You can say it as often as you like. Each one chimes, flashes the notch and says “Screenshot attached”. The words themselves never reach the task.

• With Cloud speech the picture is taken while you speak. With Local speech it is taken when you finish.
• The preview shows the pictures, each with an × to drop it.

#Sending a task to Kiro Web

Say “use Kiro Web” or “use cloud agent” (also “run in the cloud” or “in Kiro Web”) and the task goes to Kiro in Kiro Web, in Kiro’s cloud, instead of running on this computer. English only.

• Those words are taken out of the task.
• The card shows Kiro with the cloud button on, so you can switch it off before Start.
• The card has a repository pick, with a search box: the folder’s own repository, none, or a connected one. The folder pick and its default-workspace note are hidden.
• Every Kiro Web task has full access, so the card has no access pick for it.

See Agents for what Kiro Web is.

#Dictating into a chat

With a chat open and its reply box open, use the shortcut with the pointer over the chat. What you say is written into the reply instead of starting a new task.