For the voice roadmap, I’d separate the work into three layers: voice input, low-latency spoken replies, and expressive output controls. The last part matters a lot for longer answers, because pauses, tone, and emotion make the response feel less robotic. A reference worth looking at is FlowSpeech (https://flowspeech.io/) for context-aware text-to-speech with pause and emotion control. Merlin could offer a similar “natural narration” mode for mobile voice chats, while keeping realtime voice as the default for short turns.

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Would also love to see this feature.

Hi everyone,

It’s been nearly 12 months since this post first went up, and I just spoke with a Merlin customer service rep. They mentioned that the feature is still in the ‘planned’ stage. Given how long it’s been without much progress, I’m curious—does Merlin still expect to roll this out?

As a pro user with a lifetime subscription, I’ve been exploring other options like PI, Sesame, Groq, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot, many of which already offer these features. I really love using Merlin and hope to see this feature released soon.

Thanks for any updates or insights!

Building on the voice functionality previously requested, I would like to propose an enhancement to enable multilingual voice output. It would be highly beneficial if the AI could not only process voice inputs in different languages but also respond with spoken output in multiple languages.

This feature would greatly enhance accessibility for users worldwide, allowing them to interact with the AI in their preferred language, both in text and voice formats. It would be particularly useful for language learners, professionals, and users who require bilingual or multilingual support in their workflows. In my case i would love to see "german" added to the list of possible languages (TTS)

It seems realtime voice conversation has been remove from the latest update in iOS version 5.4.3.

Voice input and output is a must in these days on mobile and also desktop, since ChatGPT and Gemini has is, I tend to use them, instead of Merlin and I am thinking about stopping the Merlin subscription.

It is way better and quick to interact with ai through voice