Speak to the Chatbot

If you want to save some time when using the Chatbot to build or analyze your data, you can just ask your question, and Pyramid will use its speech-to-text facility to convert that question into text and submit it to the engine for analysis. Once enabled, the Chatbot will also be able to respond to you with audio updates, prompts and replies.

Audio Prerequisites

To be able to use this feature:

  • Speech-to-Text must have been enabled in the Admin Console's AI Settings, along with the other Natural Language and Generative AI features. If speech-to-text is not enabled, the microphone buttons (shown in the following images) are not available.
  • The Pyramid website must be running with secure communication over HTTPS using a valid SSL certificate. Modern browsers will block access to the microphone without this.
  • You must have a working microphone.
  • You must have working speakers for audio feedback.

Important: The first time the feature is used, each user must explicitly give their own authorization to the browser for the website to use the audio recording functionality in Pyramid.

Ask your question

Chatbot

From the Chatbot:

  1. Hold down the Microphone button. Once it is recording, it will turn red.

  2. Just say your question directly into your microphone.

    3. You will see a "sound wave" animation, indicating that the Chatbot is recording your question. Note: The question that you say should be just the same as a question you might type into the text field. For more information, see Writing Natural Language Queries.

  3. Once you are finished with your recording, just release the microphone button.

    4. Pyramid uses its speech to text facility to convert your spoken question into text and submit it to the LLM Engine that drives the Chatbot for analysis.

Note: If, instead of holding the microphone button, you double-click it instead it will continue recording until you click the button again. This means that you do not have to hold the mouse button down continuously.

New Discover Session

A similar functionality is also available from the Type your question here panel. For access to this panel, see Fresh Session: Type your question.

Again, you use the speech to text functionality by simply holding down the Microphone button (red arrow) and saying your question. Once you are finished with your recording, release the microphone button and your question will be processed by the Chatbot.