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The head is a real-time 3D render with lip-sync, eye contact, idle glances, and moods - he looks tired late at night, celebrates wins, and reacts when you poke him (yes, click him). Several looks are available, including an analogue-clock mode, and the hologram's glow follows your chosen accent colour.
Hover the stage's arrow to grow the hologram into a theatre view; the swap arrow trades places between the conversation panel and the hologram if you prefer chat in the centre.
Voice output
Two engines are available in Settings → VOICE. The local engine synthesises speech in your browser with WebGPU - nothing you hear ever leaves your machine - and downloads its model once, in the background. The browser engine uses your system's built-in voices and starts instantly. Magnus picks the best available automatically and you can pin either one, choose voices, and adjust the speaking style.
Voice output is optional - mute it and Magnus is a silent, fast, text assistant.
Talking to Magnus
- Click the microphone and speak; in Chrome and Edge, recognition is live as you talk.
- In Safari and Firefox, the mic works push-to-talk style: hold, speak, release, and an in-browser Whisper model transcribes locally.
- Turn on hands-free mode for a continuous conversation - Magnus listens between his own answers and ignores his own voice.
- Pick a specific microphone in the settings if you use an external one.