How do I turn on Hermes Agent voice mode?

Hermes Agent supports voice mode, but requires additional voice dependencies. The shortest route given by the official Quickstart is to install the hermes-agent[voice], optionally install faster-whisper to do local speech-to-text, and then turn on the voice in the CLI.

Basic steps

pip install "hermes-agent[voice]"
pip install faster-whisper

After entering Hermes, perform the following:

/voice on

You can use Ctrl+B to record in the CLI, or you can use /voice tts to have Hermes read the reply.

FAQs

If there is no sound, check the microphone permissions, ffmpeg, audio device, and system input/output settings first. The voice capability of the chat platform also depends on whether the corresponding gateway supports it.

In a word: Voice mode requires additional voice dependencies, which are enabled with /voice on in the CLI.

Official open source address: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent; Official document entry: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/.