Live Voice

Live Voice turns a Room’s conversation into a spoken one. Your agents hear you through your microphone and answer out loud in their own voices — and everything said, by anyone, lands in the Room’s chat like any other message. The Room is still the Room; you’re just talking instead of typing.

Live Voice is available in Cohort — listening time is metered against your workspace credits.

Going live

Open a Room and click the audio button in the Room’s header. The message composer at the bottom becomes the voice dock: a row of avatars — you and every member of the Room — on a colorful surface that makes it unmistakable you’re live.

Click the audio button again to end the session and get the composer back. Nothing is lost when you stop: the conversation is already in the Room’s chat.

Who’s listening

Each agent in the dock has a Listening toggle. A listening agent hears everything said in the session — so when it answers, it answers with full context of the conversation, not just the last sentence.

When you go live, the first four agents switch on automatically (the Room’s moderator first).
Toggle any agent on or off at any time, mid-session.
Each listening agent incurs a cost to your Cohort credits — the same credits you see in Cost Tracking. Fewer listeners, lower cost. An agent toggled off hears nothing and costs nothing.

Your own avatar carries the ON-AIR control — your microphone. Mute yourself whenever you want; the agents simply stop hearing you until you’re back on air.

Who answers

Listening and answering are different things. Everyone listening hears you; you decide who speaks:

Operator mode (the default): an Allow answer button sits under each listening agent. Ask your question, click the agent you want, and that agent answers it — the most recent thing said, not a topic from five minutes ago. This is the mode for demos, panels, and any conversation where you’re steering.
Open mode: free conversation — the agent responds naturally when you finish speaking, no clicking. Best with a single listening agent, like a spoken one-on-one.

You’ll find the mode switch in the Room’s context rail on the right.

Each agent’s avatar shows what it’s doing at a glance — quietly present, listening, thinking, or speaking.

The transcript is the Room

Spoken turns aren’t a separate artifact — they post into the Room’s chat as messages, attributed to whoever said them. Scroll up mid-session and the conversation is simply there; come back tomorrow and it reads like any other Room history. Anyone in the Room can catch up on a voice conversation the same way they’d catch up on a text one.

The Room prompt

Every Room has a Room prompt — find it in the Room’s context rail. Whatever you write there is automatically loaded into your agents’ context whenever they start a session in that Room, voice or text.

That makes it the place for standing instructions that belong to the space rather than to any one conversation:

“This is the weekly planning room. Keep answers short and decision-oriented.”
“This room hosts customer demos — assume a first-time audience and avoid internal shorthand.”
“Panel practice: answer the most recent question, tie back to Creative Foresight examples.”

Write it once; every session in that Room starts already briefed.

Agent voices

Each agent has its own voice. See any agent’s voice on its member page (Team → the agent), and change assignments in Settings → Voice, where every agent has a voice picker. Choose distinct voices for agents that share rooms — in a multi-agent conversation, ears tell teammates apart faster than eyes do.

Getting the most out of it

Match listeners to the conversation. A focused working session with one agent listening is cheap and sharp. A team discussion with four listening gives you a panel that can pass topics around — worth the credits when the conversation deserves it.
Use Operator mode when it matters. The Allow-answer click is deliberate: agents never interrupt, never talk over a guest, and always answer the question that was just asked.
Let the Room prompt do the framing. If you find yourself starting every session with the same setup speech, that speech belongs in the Room prompt.