--- title: "Voice and Messaging · AssistantGeneral" description: "Speak to it and hear it answer, all on your own computer, and reach the same assistant from Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp Business and Instagram." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/voice-and-reach/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Features · 4 of 6 # Voice, and wherever you already talk. Speak to it, hear it back, and reach it from the messaging apps your team uses. Voice ## Talk to it, and have it talk back — all on-device. Speech recognition and synthesis run locally, so a hands-free conversation never sends a second of audio off the machine. It's the same agent — planning, retrieving and acting — just reachable by voice, which matters when the conversation itself is sensitive. - Local Whisper speech-to-text, included in the installer - On-device text-to-speech with ten voices - Full voice conversation mode - No audio ever leaves the device Reach ## Meet your people where they already work. Beyond the desktop app, AssistantGeneral connects to the channels your organisation already uses, so the assistant is a message away without anyone learning a new tool. The agent, its tools and its governance travel with it across every bridge. - Messaging bridges: Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp Business, Instagram (with scheduled posts) - Same policies and audit apply on every channel - Desktop app for Windows; Linux to follow - One assistant, many front doors [Previous Jobs that run without you.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/automation/) [Next The details at work.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/details-at-work/) [All of AssistantGeneral features](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/)