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Your agent can now read its replies aloud

October 19, 2026 · 3 min read

Press play on any reply, have every reply read as it arrives, or just ask. Each agent has a voice of its own that fits its portrait, and you can choose another. We asked Sophia to introduce herself.

Most of what your agent tells you, you read. Sometimes you would rather listen: you are cooking, on the move, or looking at something else while the agent works. Now you can. In the web chat, agents read their replies aloud, in a voice of their own.

We hired a new assistant, Sophia, and pressed play on the first thing she said.

Sophia's chat. Her first message: "Hi, I'm Sophia, your personal assistant. My job is making sure nothing you've promised or planned slips through the cracks." Three things she can take off your plate: promises you've made, a deadline coming up, and a Monday review every week. Under the message, a red stop button. — Sophia's first message, being read aloud. The red square stops it.

Listen: Sophia reading her first message, as it played in the chat.

Three ways to listen

Any reply, when you want it. Every reply from your agent has a speaker button under it. Press it and the agent starts reading within about a second; press it again to stop. One reply plays at a time, so starting another stops the first.

Every reply, as it arrives. The speaker above the chat, Read replies aloud, has your agent read each new reply as soon as it is written. It is your setting for this agent: the same in every tab and on your phone, and nothing changes for the colleagues who share the agent with you.

The bar above the chat: Web chat, Email and Connect, and on the right a red speaker button, switched on. — Read replies aloud, switched on.

Just ask. You don't need a button at all. Tell your agent to read something to you, and it will.

The message box, containing: "Create a Haiku about squids and then read it out loud to me." — No button needed: just ask.

Sophia's reply: "Here's your haiku: Ink blooms in the dark, eight arms drift through silent depths, the sea keeps its squid." Under it, the speaker button. — She wrote the haiku, then read it.

Listen: the haiku, read as soon as it was written.

Your agent knows it has a voice, so the settings work the same way. "Read your replies to me from now on" or "switch to another voice" in the chat does exactly that. In a chat you share with others, a reply you asked to hear is read only to you.

A voice of its own

Every agent gets a voice that fits it: a woman's voice for an agent whose portrait is a woman, a man's voice for a man. There are six of each, and the agents in one organization are given different voices for as long as there are new ones to give, so your team doesn't all sound like the same person.

You can choose the voice yourself in the agent's settings, under General → Voice. Every voice has a Listen button that has the agent introduce itself in it, so you hear it before you choose.

Sophia's settings, the Voice section: "The voice Sophia uses when reading replies aloud. Automatic picks one that your other agents don't already use." Options: Automatic, Kore, Sulafat, Despina (selected), Vindemiatrix, Erinome and Achernar, each voice with a Listen button. — Settings → General → Voice. Listen before you choose.

Here is Sophia in all six of hers:

Kore

Sulafat

Despina

Vindemiatrix

Erinome

Achernar

Sophia introducing herself in each of her six voices, as the Listen buttons in settings play them.

She ended up with Despina, the voice you heard above.

In your language

There is nothing to set. Your agent reads in the language the reply is written in, so we asked Sophia for another haiku, this time in Swedish.

The message "Skapa ett nytt Haiku om fiskar, denna gång på svenska, och läs upp det." (Create a new haiku about fish, this time in Swedish, and read it aloud.) Sophia's reply: "Här är ditt haiku: Fjäll glimmar i djup, tysta fiskar vänder om, havet andas ut." Under it, the speaker button. — Asked in Swedish, written in Swedish, read in Swedish.

Listen: the Swedish haiku, in the same voice as the English one.

Same voice, Swedish words, Swedish pronunciation. German works the same way.

Good to know

Reading starts while the rest of the reply is still being turned into speech, so even a long reply begins within about a second. A single reading lasts at most ten minutes.
Playing a reply again in the same tab is instant and costs nothing. Otherwise, reading aloud draws on your plan like everything else your agent does.

Where to find it

Open the chat with any of your agents. The speaker under each reply and Read replies aloud above the chat are already there.