Voice input

The microphone button in the chat composer turns speech into text. Press it, talk, press it again — the transcript lands in the message box, where you can edit it before sending. While you speak the text appears and keeps growing, so you can see what was heard without waiting for the end.

Voice input costs you nothing. It is not billed against your balance and does not consume plan credits.

Using it

Press the microphone in the composer toolbar. The button becomes a check mark and a waveform appears — that is the recording indicator, and it means Lume is listening.

Speak normally. After a second or two the first words appear in the message box and continue to fill in as you talk. Press the button again to finish; the complete transcript replaces what you saw.

A few things worth knowing:

• Sending finishes the dictation. If you press Enter while the text looks right, recording stops and nothing more is written into the box.
• Anything you had already typed is kept. The transcript is added after it.
• A recording stops itself after 15 minutes. Dictation is meant for a message, not a monologue.
• Losing the network stops the recording, because the audio could not be sent anyway.
• Silence produces nothing. If Lume could not make out speech, the box is left exactly as it was — that is not an error.

Your language is detected automatically. There is nothing to configure.

Microphone access is disabled

This message means Windows is not letting Lume reach any microphone. The permission is a system setting, not a Lume setting, so it has to be changed in Windows.

1. Open Start → Settings → Privacy & security → Microphone.
2. Turn on Microphone access.
3. Turn on Let apps access your microphone.
4. Scroll to Let desktop apps access your microphone and make sure it is on. Lume is a desktop app, so this last switch is the one that is usually off.
5. Return to Lume and press the microphone button again. There is no need to restart.

If the switches are already on and the message persists, another application may be holding the microphone exclusively — a call, a recorder, a streaming tool. Close it and try again.

No microphone was found

Windows reports no recording device at all. This is a hardware or driver matter rather than a permission one.

1. Right-click the speaker icon in the taskbar and choose Sound settings.
2. Under Input, check that a device is listed and not disabled.
3. If your headset is plugged in but missing, unplug and reconnect it; Bluetooth headsets sometimes need to be re-paired before their microphone appears.
4. Open Device Manager and look under Audio inputs and outputs for a device with a warning mark. If there is one, update or reinstall its driver.

The recording failed, or the service did not answer

The recording reached Lume but could not be turned into text.

• "Voice service request failed." The transcription service could not be reached. Check your connection and try again; if you are behind a corporate proxy or VPN, it may be blocking the request.
• "Sign in to use voice input." Voice runs through your Lume account. Sign in from the account menu and try again.
• "Voice input failed — the text in the composer is only the part recognised so far." The final transcription did not complete, and what you see in the box covers only part of what you said. Record the rest, or edit by hand.

Privacy

Audio is sent to Lume's servers, converted to text, and the text is returned to your editor. The recording is not stored after transcription, and it is not used to train anything. If you would rather nothing left your machine, do not use the microphone button — typing is unaffected.