On iPhone and iPad you can speak to Vincent instead of typing, and on every device you can have a reply read back to you.
⭐ Voice draws on the same Vincent allowance as text. A free collection gets one conversation, so if you have already used it, voice offers plans instead of listening. See Meet Vincent, your AI wine assistant.
What you want | How, and where it works |
Speak instead of typing | The microphone beside the message box in the chat. iPhone and iPad. |
Hear a reply | The play button on any of Vincent's replies. Every device, Android and the web included. |
Speak a message into the chat
Tap the microphone beside the message box
Talk. A timer and a waveform show it is listening
Tap the tick to finish — your words are transcribed into the message box, where you can edit them, so a misheard producer name is easy to fix
Tap send. Nothing goes to Vincent until you do
On an iPhone with an Ask Vincent anything bar above the tab bar, tapping its microphone opens the chat and starts recording for you. A long recording is cut off and transcribed automatically; tap + to abandon one.
Anything you can type you can say, including an instruction — dictate “add two bottles of the 2019 Ridge” and Vincent acts on it once you send.
Hearing Vincent read a reply
Every reply in the chat carries a play button — tap it to hear that answer, and tap again to stop.
Spoken replies are a separate setting from speaking to Vincent. Open the chat menu icon → Settings and turn Voice off to hide the play buttons; it is on by default, and the setting lives on that device only.
Vincent speaks in your app language, so switch the app's language and the voice follows.
If the microphone will not start
Speaking into the chat needs one iOS permission — Microphone — and the app asks for it the first time. Deny it and you get “Allow microphone access in Settings to use voice input.” Grant it again in iOS Settings → InVintory, where it appears as its own switch. If recording fails for another reason the message is “Unable to start recording. Please try again.”
Android and web
Speaking to Vincent is on iPhone and iPad for now. On Android and at app.invintory.com you type, and each reply still has a play button.
Chat → microphone → talk → tick → send
Next steps
How to ask Vincent about your collection — what to ask, out loud or typed
Meet Vincent, your AI wine assistant — what Vincent can see and change
How to fix Vincent's memory and responses — when an answer stalls or cuts off