Voice-only control
Running email, ads, files and agents by voice alone, on paper first.
01 / What it was
A phone note from 8 May imagines running work with the voice only: going through the inbox by talking, looking at ad campaigns, files, documents and code, and asking for charts of any of it.
The note's main point is that each of these small views is easy to build with AI, so there could be hundreds of them. The third part is starting agents by voice. At the time, the only agents it could start were browser agents doing research.
02 / How it worked
- Talk to navigate the inbox.
- Ask out loud for charts and numbers, and see them.
- Small mini apps for each data source, each built from a single prompt.
- Spawn agents on demand by voice; then only research agents in a browser.
04 / Where it led
Voice control came back in October, as voice control of the chat server from the phone.
Sources
- iPhone note. iPhone note, 8 May 2026
Using only my voice,
- iPhone note. iPhone note, 8 May 2026
in 1 prompt it builds a whole email interface, it’s very easy
- iPhone note. iPhone note, 8 May 2026
it spawns agents on demand with your voice, currently this is only the browser agents who do research, but this can be improved lots