Push-to-Talk AI on Your Desktop: The Voice HUD

The Voice HUD is live in the idapt desktop app for Windows: a push-to-talk overlay that floats above whatever you are doing. Press the global hotkey, ask, and hear the answer without switching windows.

How it works

The HUD is voice mode distilled to a pill: your speech streams to the model you chose for voice, the reply streams back as speech, and the transcript is there when you want to read instead. When an exchange deserves the full workspace (a file to open, a follow-up thread), one click hands the conversation off to the app with the context intact.

• Global hotkey: summon it from any app, full-screen games included.
• Any model: the HUD uses your voice-mode model: Claude, GPT, Gemini, whichever you set.
• Always on top, out of the way: a small pill that expands while you talk and stays click-through when idle.
• Private by default: the microphone opens only while the HUD is active.

What it is for

The questions that die because switching windows costs more than the answer is worth: a term while reading, a phrasing while writing an email, a quick check mid-call. The HUD makes those a two-second gesture instead of a context switch.

Good to know

• Windows-only today, in the desktop app.
• Replies use your chosen voice from the catalog; playback and voice settings follow your voice-mode configuration.
• Conversations started in the HUD appear in your history like any chat.

Get started

Download the desktop app, set the hotkey in settings, and press it. The voice mode feature page covers the full voice experience the HUD is built on, and voice mode workflows shows what people do with it beyond quick questions.