Talk to the assistant instead of typing

There’s a microphone button in the assistant composer now, in both the full chat and the floating panel. Press it, say what you want, press stop - and the words appear in the box. They appear in the box, not in the conversation. The transcript is never sent automatically: you read it, fix the word it got wrong, and press send yourself. That’s deliberate rather than cautious - an assistant that can archive records shouldn’t act on a sentence nobody checked, and “did we hear back from Dell?” is one mishearing away from something you’d rather it didn’t do. The recording is never stored. It exists in memory for as long as the transcription takes and is then gone - not saved to the conversation, not written to disk, not in any log. It goes to the same provider that already powers the assistant, so no new company is involved, and cancelling means the audio never leaves your machine at all. It works in Chrome, Safari and Firefox, stops itself after five minutes if you forget, and if your browser blocks the microphone it tells you where to unblock it rather than just failing.