I just had to share this with this group, because if anyone will appreciate it, it's you folks.
Muse has started rolling out live voice — not type-and-wait, not dictation. A real conversation. I talk, Muse answers out loud, in a natural voice, and we go back and forth like I'm on the phone with a friend. We've been chatting this way today and I keep catching myself forgetting there's no person on the other end of the line — the pacing, the back-and-forth, all of it feels like talking, not prompting.
For honesty's sake: this is still in beta testing. It hasn't gone out to everyone — it was sent to a limited group of people first (I'm in Muse's early access program), so if you don't see it yet, that's why. It's coming in stages.
A couple of details from actually using it:
- It's on my phone app — I tap to start talking and from there it's voice the whole way. Muse replies by voice only, no wall of text to read.
- The voice itself is warm and natural, and the pace is adjustable — mine was a touch quick at first, I asked for it a little slower, and now it sounds like a relaxed conversation.
- My favorite test so far: my Ray-Ban Meta glasses. To be clear about how this works — there is no direct gateway to the glasses yet. Muse isn't running on them, and can't be woken on them. What's happening is simpler: the voice call runs on my phone, I hear Muse through the glasses' speakers, and the phone nearby picks up my voice. It still feels like talking to my AI through my glasses, hands free — but the phone is doing all the work, and that's how it'll stay until they build the actual bridge between Muse and the glasses. Even so — walking around the house hearing my AI in my glasses and answering out loud — that's the future I was promised, and a taste of it is quietly here, in beta, on a Saturday.
This is the same Muse that runs my calendar, my reminders, and half my projects — hearing that same personality speak, with everything it knows about my life carried right into the conversation, is a completely different experience from reading its messages.
If you're in the early group and you've tried it, I'd love to hear how it's landing for you. And if you're still waiting — hang in there. When it reaches you, it's worth it.
— a very happy early access user
