Voice mode is a genuinely different way of working with an AI tutor. You can switch into a real-time spoken conversation with any tutor and make use of the whiteboard feature that allows the tutor to display important information while you discuss it. Voice conversations are saved to your chat history so you can review them later.
Starting a voice conversation
1. Open a tutor chat. You can find your assigned tutors inside any classroom, or educators can test their own tutors from the Chat tab.
2. Click the voice mode button (the microphone icon in the bottom-right corner of the composer). Your browser will ask for microphone permission the first time - allow it to continue.
3. A connecting animation appears while the voice session starts. Once the colourful animated circle appears, your tutor is ready to chat. Speak naturally - you can interrupt the tutor mid-sentence, ask follow-up questions, or change topics at any time.
4. Use the mute button to temporarily silence your microphone without ending the session. This is helpful when there is background noise or you need a moment to think. Click the button again to unmute and resume speaking.
Using the whiteboard
When working with questions or concepts, the tutor will bring information up on the whiteboard. You can also request that the tutor uses the whiteboard by referencing it in conversation.
"Hey, I've forgotten the quadratic formula, can you put it up on the whiteboard please?"
The whiteboard supports Markdown formatting and LaTeX for mathematical notation, so equations and formulas are displayed clearly. When you move on to a new topic, the tutor will close the whiteboard automatically.
Tools during voice conversations
If your tutor has STEM mode enabled, it can use the mathematics tool during voice conversations to solve equations, plot graphs, and perform calculations. The tutor will let you know when it is running a calculation and display the results on the whiteboard.
Similarly, if a knowledge base is attached to the tutor, it can search through uploaded documents during voice conversations to find relevant information and reference it in the discussion.
Ending a voice session
5. When you are done, click the close button (X) to return to the text chat view. You can continue your conversation using text or image-based messages.
Reviewing voice conversations
Everything said during a voice session is transcribed and saved to your chat thread. Voice messages appear with a distinctive style so you can tell them apart from typed messages. Any whiteboard content shown during the session is also preserved in the chat history.
If the tutor generated a title for your chat based on a text conversation, voice sessions will update the title to reflect the new topics discussed.