Grok Bot voice chat: talk to your Bot on desktop and phone, and where the notes go

What to hand to an agent first

• Voice chat, dictation and voice memos

  These are three different things. Voice chat is a live conversation: the Bot answers out loud and keeps listening until you hang up. Dictation, also called voice typing, turns your speech into text in the message box, so you read it, edit it and send it, and the Bot replies in text (Grok Bot help: Voice chat). On desktop, start dictation with Start voice input or Cmd/Ctrl+D (xAI's Message and collaborate docs). A Bot can also reply with a voice memo you play in the chat (xAI's Message and collaborate docs).

• Start a call

  Open the chat with the Bot and leave the message box empty. Choose Start voice chat, the waveform button in the message box, and allow microphone access if your computer or phone asks. The call shows Connecting… on desktop or Calling… on the phone, then the Bot starts talking. The button only shows when the message box is empty. If the box is empty and you still don't see it, update Grok Bot (Grok Bot help: Voice chat). On the phone, stop dictation before you start a voice chat (Grok Bot help: Voice chat).

• During the call

  You can Mute or Unmute, Hang up, Show transcript to read along, and Show settings to change the Voice, the Speed and the Language. Auto-detect picks the language from what you say (Grok Bot help: Voice chat). Voice chat has its own Language setting, separate from the app's language (Grok Bot help: How-tos). Voice calls offer 0.5x speed, and the Bot knows today's date in your time zone (xAI's changelog). You can open other chats while the call runs, and on desktop choose Return to the voice chat to go back. Only one voice chat runs at a time (Grok Bot help: Voice chat).

• Where the notes go

  After you hang up, a Voice chat card appears in that Bot's chat with how long the call lasted. Open it to read the full transcript. If the call left work to do, the Bot may follow up in the chat with next steps or results (Grok Bot help: Voice chat). That's the useful part for a business: talk through what you need, then check the follow-up in the chat. When a Bot prepares an email or Slack message, the chat shows an editable draft for you to review before you choose Send (xAI's Message and collaborate docs).

• What voice chat can't do

  You can't voice chat in a group chat, because voice chat works with one Bot at a time. Open that Bot's own chat to start a call. Voice chat isn't available with a teammate's Team Bot (Grok Bot help: Voice chat). It's also a call with your own Bot, not a phone line for your customers. If you want an AI that answers your business phone, that's a different product, and our voice agents guide compares them.

• When a call drops

  If a call ends, Grok Bot shows Voice chat failed, and the notice may say The call ended unexpectedly. or The realtime connection failed. Choose Dismiss, check your internet connection and choose Start voice chat again. If Grok Bot says microphone access was denied, allow it in your system settings. If it says no microphone was found, connect one and try again. To pick which microphone it uses, open Settings and choose one under Microphone (Grok Bot help: Voice chat).

• Good first calls for an owner

  These are our examples. A morning walk-through: "What's on my calendar today, and which emails need me?" A quote you talk through: describe the job out loud, then ask the Bot to send a written draft quote to the chat for you to check. A weekly review: talk through what went well and what didn't, and ask for a short written summary afterwards. Keep passwords, card numbers and one-time codes out of calls, as you would in chat (xAI's Approvals docs). Not sure which jobs to give your Bot? Our free What should my bot do? planner picks three in 5 quick questions.

Ready-made use cases

1. 01CEO morning brief in 5 minutes
   One message each morning: calendar, urgent emails, money in/out, and the 3 things that move the business today.
   ~3h/week · estimate
2. 02Weekly CEO review & plan
   Every Friday the agent compiles wins, numbers, stuck items and proposes next week's priorities.
   ~2h/week · estimate
3. 03Inbox triage with drafted replies
   The agent sorts your inbox into reply / FYI / ignore and drafts replies in your voice for you to approve.
   ~5h/week · estimate

Grok Bot routine: CEO morning brief in 5 minutes
Schedule: Daily 7:30

Every morning, read my calendar for today, my unread emails from the last 24h and yesterday's revenue. Send me a brief: (1) meetings with one prep note each, (2) emails that need my reply with a suggested one-line answer, (3) money in/out, (4) the 3 highest-leverage tasks for today. Keep it under 200 words.

Rules: draft first, never send or post anything external without my approval. Keep summaries short.

Grok Bot, ChatGPT, Claude and n8n versions: all templates

Email me this template + the Starter Kit

Keep these human

• Don't say passwords, card numbers or one-time codes in a call. The transcript is saved in the chat, and xAI's docs say they never belong in ordinary chat (xAI's Approvals docs).
• Anything a Bot does after a call follows your approval rules. Keep an Ask first rule for sending under Settings → General → Auto-review (xAI's Approvals docs).
• People nearby can hear the Bot's answers. Use the transcript in a shared space.
• Voice chat works with one Bot at a time, and not with a teammate's Team Bot (Grok Bot help: Voice chat).
• Start in draft mode: the agent prepares, you approve, then you loosen the leash routine by routine.

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