Where to find it
Look for the microphone button in the message box. It's available in both places you talk to Iris:
The composer on the Chat home screen, where new conversations start.
The composer inside any open chat.
How to dictate
Click the microphone button. The first time, your browser will ask for permission to use your microphone — allow it, and you won't be asked again.
Speak naturally. As you finish each phrase, the words appear in the message box.
Click the microphone again to stop.
Read it over, tidy anything that needs tidying, and send.
Dictation types for you — nothing sends until you press Enter, so you always get a chance to review.
Good to know
Pauses are fine. Stopping to think for a few seconds won't end your dictation — Omega keeps listening until you click the microphone off.
You can mix typing and talking. Dictated words are appended to whatever's already in the box, so you can type the start of a question, dictate the middle, and type the end.
Capitalization is handled, punctuation mostly isn't. Omega capitalizes the start of sentences for you, but you may want to add commas and question marks before sending.
Browser support varies. Dictation works in Chrome, Edge, and Safari. On a browser that doesn't support it, the microphone button simply doesn't appear — the composer works exactly as it always has.
Note: If the microphone button does nothing, check your browser's site permissions — microphone access for Omega may have been blocked at some point. Re-allow it and try again.
When it's handy
Dictation shines when your question is long or when your hands are busy:
Debriefs — talking through what happened on a call and asking Iris to react is much faster spoken than typed.
Long, multi-part questions — "Compare paid social and paid search performance for the last two months, break out the top campaigns on each side, and flag anything that would worry you" is a mouthful to type and a breath to say.
Working through an idea — thinking out loud into the composer, then editing before you send, is a surprisingly effective way to sharpen a question.
Tip: Dictation captures your words, not your formatting. For questions where structure matters — a bulleted list of scenarios, exact metric names — type those parts and save dictation for the prose around them.