PHNTM One
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Talking to it

FROM THE ON-DEVICE MANUAL · SOFTWARE 0.8 · UPDATED SEPTEMBER 24, 2026

How to talk to it

  1. Tap the 🎤 next to Send, or press TAB on the keyboard.
  2. Speak. Stop talking and it notices, or tap again to stop early.
  3. Your words appear in the chat box so you can review them before sending.
  4. The answer comes back out loud through the built-in speaker. Typed questions are answered silently.

The rules it keeps

  • The microphone is only live while the mic button blinks red, for 15 seconds at most.
  • There's no wake word and no always-on listening. A wake word that misfires even once is worse than a button.
  • Speech is processed on the device (whisper.cpp for listening, Piper for speaking). No voice data goes to a cloud service.

Volume is in the ≡ menu. Voice on or off is one of the setup choices.

Still stuck?

Email [email protected] with your serial (it's on the back of the business card). You get the person who built your unit, not a queue.

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