Heard documentation

Open Settings from the Heard menu bar. Changes apply immediately, no restart needed.

Voice

Setting	What it does
Narration voice	Who reads your updates. Jarvis (butler), Aria (calm), Friday (warm), and Atlas (cinematic) ship with the managed app.
Speaking speed	0.7x to 1.2x playback speed.
Mode	Co-pilot, Companion, or Focus. See Listening modes.
Style	A drop-in narration style. ADHD keeps lines short and punchy; Verbose explains more; Karpathy narrates with lean, assumption-stating precision.
Narrate routine steps	Off by default. On, Heard gives a running play-by-play of tool activity instead of speaking only at turns.
Spatial audio	When two projects run at once, the background one speaks slightly to the side. Stereo output only.
Errors / Blocked / Completions	Which event families always speak.

Dictation (Power)

Setting	What it does
Enable voice input	Turns Heard Whisper on.
Push to talk	Hold Right Command to speak; release to insert text at your cursor.
Ambient (always listening)	Heard listens continuously and inserts what you say, with no key to hold. It pauses on its own during a real call — when the microphone is actually in use, including calls in a browser tab — and resumes shortly after you hang up. It also steps back to push to talk if you walk away from the keyboard for a while.
Microphone	Pick a specific input device, or follow the system default.

Heard Parrot (Power)

Setting	What it does
Answer depth	Brief, Balanced, or Deep first answers. See Heard Parrot.
Progress updates	Short spoken waypoints while Parrot digs.
Disable safe open commands	Makes Parrot answer-only.

Notch

Setting	What it does
Show the notch	The visual surface under your camera. Audio continues if you hide it.
Pop when a task finishes	The focused done card. See The notch.
Expand on hover	Hover to open the session list; off means the notch only opens when something needs you.
Default view	Dashboard (session lanes) or Turn view (the conversation thread, Power).
Usage bar	Show your narration usage at a glance.

Account

New in 1.1.53: the Liquid Glass notch is now the default style, custom vocabulary syncs with your account across installs, the “Stay quiet during calls” toggle is live, and routine narration speaks in a more conversational play-by-play voice. See the changelog for everything else.