Put the keyboard down.

Tap the mic once. The pause is the send button.

1. 1

   Tap the mic and talk

   Your words appear in the input as you speak, in two tones — what has been heard, and what is still landing.

2. 2

   Pause, and it sends itself

   A small ring around the mic winds down so you always know what is about to happen. Keep talking and the ring resets.

3. 3

   Say "send" to send sooner

   Or just speak again to keep going — the turn is yours until you let the ring run out.

While 1Presence replies, the mic holds — not off, just resting — and picks back up the moment the response finishes. That is what makes it a conversation you can hold entirely away from the screen.

Turn on read-aloud and replies are spoken as they arrive, in a voice you choose — or tap the speaker under any past message to hear it again. As it reads, the words light up so your eye can follow along, the way a finger traces a line. Pause mid-sentence and it resumes from exactly the word it left on.

It runs on your own device, free, in whatever voices your phone or computer already has — nothing extra to pay for, nothing sent anywhere to be spoken.

Hold the spacebar to talk, release to send. Already started typing? Hold Shift + Space instead, so your draft is not disturbed. Press, talk, let go — the fastest way to fire off a thought without leaving the keyboard.

Voice works in Chrome, Edge and Safari; if your browser does not support it, the mic simply stays quietly out of the way.

Years of search boxes trained you to boil a thought down to a tidy instruction before you speak. Resist it. 1Presence works better on the messy, half-formed, thinking-out-loud version — the way you would explain something to a colleague who already knows the context.

Ramble. Backtrack. Say "actually, no, the other thing" and leave the asides in. All of it is signal: it says what matters to you, where you are unsure, where the real question is hiding. A polished one-liner strips that away and leaves it guessing. The synthesis is its job, not yours.

And when the hands-free thing you need is an actual call — 1Presence can place that too, through your own Twilio: your phone rings first, then connects you, with a live transcript beside you as you speak. The calls guide has the whole setup.