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SafetyMay 16, 2026 · 5 min read

Push-to-talk: how you stay in control

Your double carries the call — but you're always one key from taking the mic back. Here's the control model, and the consent line you can't cross.

An AI talking in your voice in a live meeting is only as safe as your ability to stop it. A confident wrong answer, in your voice, to your boss, is not a bug you can apologise your way out of. So the override is instant, physical, and impossible to misconfigure.

Hold to speak as yourself

Your double answers the call on its own. The instant you'd rather speak, hold the push-to-talk key: your real microphone takes the floor mid-sentence and the agent goes quiet. Let go and it picks the thread back up. The human is always one keystroke from the mic.

Your voice always wins

Holding the key routes your real mic into the call and mutes the agent on the spot — no lag, no setting to flip. Release to hand the floor back.

The consent line

Sending a meeting's audio to a cloud voice service can cross two-party-consent wiretap law in states like California, Florida, Illinois, and Washington. In single-party states your own consent is enough; in two-party states everyone needs to know.

  • Single-party-consent state: you consenting is sufficient
  • Two-party-consent state: disclose to the room
  • Regulated industries (health, legal, finance): talk to counsel first

The technology will happily break the law for you. Don't let it — the disclosure is on you.

Built for the boring meetings

This shines on the low-stakes recurring calls where you mostly listen — your double holds your seat, and you drop in for the one exchange that matters. For anything sensitive, just keep a finger near the key.

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