AI calls: talking by voice in the app and on the web

1Where calls are available

Voice calls are built into the Gibrid apps: iPhone and iPad, Mac and Android. The browser has no such call (with a voice choice, groups and souls); there are two paths instead. The first is to dictate a question with the Voice input button and listen to the answer with the Read aloud button in the “⋯” menu under the reply. The second is the “Voice conversation” in the main chat, described below.

2Voice conversation in the web chat

In the main chat gibrid.ai/chat there is a headphones icon Voice conversation in the header. It opens a panel where you speak and the Gibrid assistant answers by voice. The feed and cards stay on screen: each of your phrases and each answer is an ordinary message of this same chat.

1. Open the main chat

   Go to gibrid.ai/chat and sign in. The headphones icon is in the header on the right, next to the temporary chat button.

2. Click “Voice conversation”

   A panel opens: “Speak — I will answer by voice”. Above the buttons you see the price: “≈ N G per minute, the standard voice is free”.

3. Click “Start” and allow the microphone

   The browser asks for microphone access. If there is none, the panel says “No microphone access”.

4. Speak

   Statuses: “Listening…”, “Hearing you…”, “Thinking…”, “Answering — you can interrupt”. The end of a phrase is detected by a pause (about a second), the phrase is transcribed and goes to the chat. If you start talking during the answer, the voice stops and the assistant listens again.

5. Click “End”

   The panel closes and the microphone turns off; the whole conversation stays in the chat as text.

3How to start a call

1. Open the chat you need

   You can call in a chat with a soul (agent), in a chat with a model, and in an agent group.

2. Tap the call button

   There is a green phone button in the chat header. Two more ways: the Call item in the menu of the last reply, or the Call button on a soul card.

3. Allow the microphone

   On the first call, the app asks for access to the microphone and speech recognition. Without permission, a hint appears: “No microphone access. Turn it on in Settings”.

4. Speak

   The screen shows statuses: “Connecting…”, “Listening…” or “Speak”, then “Thinking…” and “Speaking…”. When the AI is answering, you can simply start talking and it will stop.

In a group, the call runs in the “Round table” format: each participant speaks in their own voice. Only one call can run at a time; if you start a second one, the app says: “A call is already in progress. End it first”.

4Controls during a call

• Interrupt (hint “Stops the answer so you can speak”): interrupt the AI's reply with a button. The “Can interrupt by voice” item means the same happens when you start speaking.
• Mute / Unmute: turn the microphone off and on. If you start typing, the microphone pauses (“Microphone paused: you're typing”).
• Speaker: switch between speakerphone and the earpiece.
• Minimize: collapse the call into a floating panel so you can keep using the app.
• Conversation transcript: the text of the lines in real time.
• Switch to text chat (“Continue the conversation by typing”): return to the text conversation without losing context.
• End call: hang up.

5Choosing a voice

Open the call settings and tap Call voice (or Change agent voice). The catalog is divided into sections:

• “Favorites”: voices you marked with the “Add to favorites” button;
• “Free”: they don't charge your balance;
• “Paid”: labeled “charged to your balance”; next to the voice there is a “paid” mark, an “economy” mode and a price like ≈ N G / 1000;
• the Search voice field and the Preview voice button for checking.

By default the voice is chosen by name and character (male or female), and if you pick a voice manually for a specific soul, it is remembered. During a call, paid voices are spoken by the fast streaming ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 engine (about ⚡4 per 1,000 characters); the expressive Eleven v3 mode has no effect on a call: the server ignores it. The conversation language is chosen in the “Language” block (Russian or English).

6After the call

At the end, a service line “Call ended · m:ss” is added to the chat, and the lines go into the conversation. By tapping this line or the Call menu, you can start a new call. If the connection drops, the screen offers Call again or reconnecting; on an error it says “Call failed” or “Couldn't start the call. Check your connection and microphone access”.

7What costs money

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