The AI feature that changed my workflow (Hint: it involves your voice).

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Tired of typing prompts into AI tools and reading static answers? There’s a better way. Advanced voice mode lets you talk to your AI - brainstorm ideas, rehearse tough conversations, and get real-time feedback like you would from a coach or a collaborator. 

In this episode, we are joined by Inventium’s GenAI expert Neo Aplin to break down what advanced voice mode is, how it works, and why it might just change the way you use AI forever. 

In this episode we learn: 

• What advanced voice mode actually is (and why it feels so natural) 

• The Gen AI tools that offer voice mode (and how to find it) 

• Creative ways to use it for work - like brainstorming, ideation, and role-playing tough conversations 

• Surprising personal uses for voice mode, including self-reflection and emotional processing 

Key quotes: 
“It's not like you're talking to a robot. It’s much more like you're talking to a human.” 
“It’s great for scenarios, ideation, workshopping, and self-discovery.” 
 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we are diving into one of my favorite Genai features,
which is Advanced Voice Mode. If you have ever wished
you could just talk to your Ai like a coach,
or a collaborator or even a therapist, well you kind
of can. Neo Applan, Inventium's Jeni expert is back with

(00:23):
me again to explain how this all works and why
it might just change how you use Jenai forever. Welcome
to How I Work, a show about habits, rituals, and
strategies for optimizing your date. I'm your host, doctor Amantha Imber.

(00:45):
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(01:50):
So head to the link in the show notes and
check out the program today. Okay, Neo. One of my
favorite features, as you know on jenai to is Advanced
Voice Mode. Can you explain for those that have no
idea what I'm talking about what it actually is.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
At its heart, it's where you can talk to the AI,
but the AI talks back to you or has a
conversation with you, so rather than you having to type
it in whether it be on your key or keyboard
or your phone, and then you have to read the
responses from the AI, it's a conversation. So I say something,
the AI says something back, and the conversation continues. So

(02:31):
this isn't necessarily revolutionary in itself, But what's revolutionary is
the way that you can work with AI and also
the flexibility of being able to get away from having
to deal with your device, so it feels a lot
more natural, it's a lot more intuitive, and it's a
lot easier to then feel like you're having a conversation,
so it opens up more role playing and more interviewing

(02:53):
type things than just writing or typing that you had before.
Oh and the other thing is the voices on it
are incredibly normal sounding, so they sound much more like
a human. It's not like you're talking to a robot.
It's much more like you're talking to a human. So
it's also a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
So which of the Genai tools actually have this advanced
voice mode feature?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Chet, BT, Gemini, co Pilot's got it, and quite a
few of the other ones out there. If you've ever
seen pi Ai that has it as well. It's not
yet available on Claude, although I would imagine that's probably
coming soon, but it's an excellent feature. If you've got
it there on your tools, have a play. It's usually
looks like a waveform icon. Find that, click it and

(03:37):
have a bit of a play.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Okay, So what are some of the best ways to
use Advanced Voice Mode for work.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
First one I use it for is when I don't
want to be sitting at my computer. So if I'm
thinking out loud and I have been doing some ideation
or I'm doing some workshopping of ideas, I find it
excellent to be able to talk through these ideas and
have a commonation with AI rather than feeling like I'm
sitting at my desk and I must come up with
the words and put it all together. So for ID generation, workshopping,

(04:10):
all those kind of things really valuable. The other is collaboration,
So using the GENAI like a buddy or like an
expert you might be interviewing. It's excellent for those things.
It's like, here's what I'm trying to do, how do
I improve it. You've got a conversation going on here
with the AI rather than very much stayed long discussion

(04:31):
points you have to type, So excellent for that. And
the last is I use it to interview me for things.
So if I need to practice for something or I
want to get some insights from myself, I'll tell it
to do some interviewing. So if I've got like a
big presentation coming up or imagine you're going to present
to a board or something like that. You could say,

(04:52):
I need you to role play with me, and I
need you to be this role, and then let's have
a role played together. And I can then also get
it to critique how I went on the role play.
So it's great for scenarios, it's great for ideation, it's
great for work shopping, and it's great for self discovering
and interviewing. So see so many different ways.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Now it's also pretty good in our personal life too.
Can you talk me through some of the main use
cases that you're finding it particularly good for.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
So many people use this as like a coach, like
a life coach. Some people use it as a counselor.
I think that there's no substitute for a human counselor,
But if you can't get to one you want to
just have a quick chat, or we can't afford a counselor,
then it's excellent for that. I use it a lot
for self reflection, so I get it to interview me
about certain things that I'm trying to figure out where

(05:43):
it might be I'm stuck on this problem. Then I
get it to interview me so I can work out
what I'm thinking about it and why I'm getting a
bit stuck on these problems on personal life and also
in my professional life. So getting it to ask me
questions and to dive deeper into things helps me understand
more about what I'm thinking and how I'm going with things.

(06:03):
So it's an excellent tool there too.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
What other use cases do you hear people that you
know using it for?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh, so many things, people in particular as doctors and
therapists is a common one. A lot of people use
it for job interviews where they want to practice that
job interview. Some people also use it for tough conversations.
So imagine you're a leader on a team and you've
got to have a tough conversation with one of your teammates.

(06:33):
Maybe they're running late to meetings all the time, and
you feel really awkward talking to them about running late
to meetings. It's great to be able to role play
that and have a practice conversation with it, so so
many different ways.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, now, finally, are there any things that people should
watch out for? Any limitations or warnings that we need
to keep in mind when using Advanced Voice Mode.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
There's some technical limitations, and then there's kind of real
life limitations. The technical ones are it wants to have
a conversation with you, So if you just want to
have a complete brain dump and just talk to it
for twenty minutes, it won't do. They'll want to butt
in and interrupt you because it wants to have a conversation.
So at a technical level, it's good for a conversation

(07:15):
rather than a according. At a non technical level, it's
like Jenai is excellent at so many things, like it
is smart enough to pass the bar. It does know
all of the different therapy things for consulting and whatnot. However,
it's not a substitute for a therapist. It's not a
substitute for a lawyer or a doctor. So if you're

(07:36):
going to talk through, say a health issue, it will
only knows so much, and so don't rely on AI
to diagnose you and get everything right every single time.
But I will say that that it's really helpful for
reflection or clarification when it comes to say medicine. What
you could do is work with AI on potentially the

(07:58):
things you might want to bring up with a doctor.
Or is this even concerning in the first place. Those
kind of questions. So those things can be useful for
people to use, but do look at the results and
the outputs quite critically to make sure that you believe
that they are actually right and you've given enough context
to give you a great result.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Thank you again so much, Neo. I know that this
is one of my favorite features I reckon. I use
it every day, So if you have not tried using
Advanced Voice Mode on your Genai, I highly recommend that
you give it a go today. If you like today's show,
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of the Cool and Nation. A big thank you to
Martinimmer for doing the sound mix.