Voice commands for AI video and voice lines — talk to the studio

The Ask bar at the top of the studio has a mic. Tap it, say what you want — a clip, an image, a voice line — and stop talking. The sentence sends itself, and Clap, the assistant in Ask, answers with a plan: the render with its price and an Approve button that renders it right in the chat. Say "open it in Video" (or Image, or Voice) and it sets up the tool instead, one click from the page. Nothing renders without your click.

This guide covers where the mic works, how to phrase a spoken ask so it lands the first time, follow-ups by voice, and the distinction that matters in a studio that also makes voices: a command versus a line to be spoken.

Where the mic is

• Ask is the bar at the top of the studio home (/studio, after sign-in) — the default tab of the home composer, with the placeholder "Ask anything, launch everything". /ask describes it in full.
• The mic sits in that bar and uses your browser's own speech recognition, which Chrome, Edge and Safari have. In a browser without it, such as Firefox, the mic is hidden.
• There is no send button to reach for. When you stop talking, the words send themselves.
• No mic? Type. Enter sends, Shift+Enter starts a new line. From any other studio page, ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) opens "Search or ask anything…" — type your phrase and the last row, "Ask eroq: “…”", sends it to your chat in progress, or starts one.

What happens when you stop talking

Your first message turns the studio home into a chat: your words on the right, the reply on the left, written out word by word. While Clap works, a line says what it is doing ("Thinking it through…", "Writing the storyboard…", "Pricing the plan…") and its notes write themselves out under it.

Then comes the part worth reading. Under the reply, Clap's plan says what it will make, and for how much:

You say:    make a vertical clip of a woman walking through neon rain, 10 seconds
Plan:       10 s · 9:16    [Approve]

You say:    open it in Video
Grey line:  Video · 10 s · 9:16    [Open Video →]

The plan also names the engine and the exact credits. Approve renders the clip in the chat, and it lands there and in your library. Say "open it in Video" instead and a grey line says what Ask set up, with the prompt it wrote quoted under it. Click Open Video → and the Video page opens with that prompt and those settings filled in; until you do, you stay in the chat. A locked engine shows its plan badge next to the button.

Asking is free on Auto. Every render waits for your click: Approve on a plan, or Generate on the tool page, with the usual credit check and plan unlock.

Say the medium, then the scene, then the settings

Spoken sentences run long and loose. One order keeps them easy to follow:

1. The medium — "a clip", "an image", "a voice line", "a short film". This decides what Clap makes: a clip, a picture, a voice line or a whole film.
2. The scene — subject, action, place, light. Ask writes it into the prompt.
3. The settings — the engine, the seconds, the format, the number of takes.

You say:    make an image of a lighthouse at dusk, square, four versions
Plan:       4 renders · 1:1    [Approve]

Leave the medium out and Ask asks back: "make something cool" gets "An image, a clip, a voice line or some text?" with answer chips. Tap one, or say it.

For settings, use the plain words Ask already knows: "vertical", "Reels", "landscape", "square", "ultra-wide" for the format; "10 seconds" for the length; "with Kling" or "on Veo 3.1" for the engine. Anything you do not say stays at the engine's defaults, or as the tool already has it: Ask sets only what you asked for. How Ask picks the engine, length and format lists the words and what each one sets.

One habit pays off with dictation: read the plan before you approve it, or the grey line before you open the page. It names the engine, the length and the format that were set. If something you said is missing, add it in a follow-up — or type it.

Commands and voice lines

eroq makes voices as well as pictures, so a spoken ask can mean two different things.

A command asks for something to be made: "make a clip of…", "an image of…". Clap plans it and writes the prompt. Video and image prompts are written in English for the engines, whatever language you spoke.

A voice line is text to be spoken. Say the voice first, then the words after a colon:

You say:    Aria, read this like a voicemail: Hey, it's me. I landed early, call me back when you're out.
Plan:       Voice One · Aria    [Approve]

Approve renders the line in Aria's voice, and it plays right in the chat. Say "open it in Voice" and the Voice tool is set up instead, with Aria selected and your line set as the text. A voice line keeps the language you said it in — it is spoken as written — so a French line stays French, and Ask replies in French:

You say:    Orion, lis ça doucement : la porte était déjà ouverte quand je suis arrivé.
Plan:       Voice One · Orion    [Approve]

The voice can be a roster voice (Aria, Orion or any of the 24), one of your cloned voices, or a character's voice, each found by name. The instruction goes before the colon and the line after it, so it is always clear which words are meant to be spoken. Prompts in any language covers the language side in more depth.

Because the render waits for your click, you see the line before it renders: open the plan's row to read it, worth a glance on a dictated script, since punctuation shapes the read (punctuation-driven voice direction). When it renders, a line costs 3 credits per 100 characters on Voice One, 2 credits on Voice Turbo.

Follow up by voice

The thread keeps context, so the next sentence can be short. What you said earlier still counts:

You say:    make a clip of a woman walking through neon rain at night, 10 seconds
Plan:       10 s    [Approve]

You say:    now make it vertical
Plan:       10 s · 9:16    [Approve]

You say:    make it with Kling instead
Plan:       Kling 3.0 · 10 s · 9:16    [Approve]

A plan you have not approved is replaced by the next one: only the newest waits for your Approve. Shorter phrasing works too: "the same but vertical", "rather with Kling", "make it 5 seconds", "now as an image". Go to Video and come back with the back button, or Home in the left rail and the chat in the column: the conversation is still there. New chat starts a fresh one, and your chats stay in this browser, not synced across devices. Iterating by conversation takes this further.

Going places by voice

Ask does more than make things and set up tools. Say "open my library", "billing", "clone my voice", "my API keys", "show me what the community made" or "new film" and its button takes you there.

Say "open the dragon clip" and it searches your creations by the words of their prompts and titles, showing up to five matches as thumbnails to click; with no match, Open Creations → takes you to your library filtered on those words. Characters, elements and cloned voices are found by name. It reads prompts and titles — it does not look inside the images or videos themselves.

Honest limits

• Ask does not render by itself. Nothing is spent until you click Approve on a plan, or Generate on a tool page.
• eroq has no image upscaling, no lip-sync and no inpainting, and Ask says so instead of pretending. Clips are upscaled to 1080p or 2K with Upscale, in Video › Edit, not in a plan.
• Chats are kept in this browser for 30 days, on that device only.
• Ask is part of the studio, not an API endpoint. Developers call the generation endpoints directly, or connect assistants through the MCP server at /mcp.

FAQ

Which browsers support voice commands on eroq?

Chrome, Edge and Safari — the mic uses the browser's own speech recognition. In a browser without it, such as Firefox, the mic is hidden and you type instead: Enter sends, Shift+Enter adds a new line.

Do I have to press send after speaking?

No. When you stop talking, the words send themselves. If a pause sent only half of what you meant, finish it with a follow-up — the thread keeps what you said before.

Can I give voice commands in another language?

Yes. Speak in your own language and Ask answers in it. Video and image prompts are written in English for the engines, while a voice line keeps the language you said it in.

Does a voice command spend credits?

No. Asking is free on Auto: a command gets you a plan, priced, or a tool set up behind a button. Only your Approve on the plan, or Generate on the tool page, spends credits, with the usual credit check and plan unlock.

How do I make one of my characters say a line?

Name the character, then give the line after a colon — the same shape as "Aria, read this: …". Clap plans the line in that character's voice (or sets up the Voice tool with it, if you ask for the tool) and keeps the line in the language you said it in.

Open the studio, tap the mic and say your first clip: Clap prices it, and the click that renders it is still yours.