Meta is giving its Muse AI agents speaking capabilities in an effort to make them more engaging and easier to use.
Muse users will be able to select a voice for their personal artificial intelligence-powered agent and empower audio queries.
As explained by Meta: “Sometimes it’s easier to think out loud. With voice, you can talk through an idea with your Muse and let it take shape without worrying about the exact prompt.”
Meta said this should make it easier to use Muse to plan different projects, including work-related prep.
“Some things are better rehearsed out loud,” the company said. “Prepare for a job interview, run through a presentation, or talk through a pitch — hearing a response and answering in the moment makes it feel more like the real thing.”
Meta said the Muse avatar will also be able to express more as it speaks, and will use subtle expressions and gestures that match the tone of the conversation.
“It reacts while you talk, so you can tell it’s following along,” Meta said. “And you choose how present you want it to be: voice only, the avatar alongside your conversation, or full screen when you want to talk face to face.”
Users will even be able to give their Muse characters a custom voice, like giving it a New York accent or making it speak like a pirate.
Which, for some reason, Meta is convinced is something that people want, despite similar options falling flat with users previously.
Back in 2023, Meta introduced celebrity-styled AI chatbots on Messenger, which enabled users to engage with AI bots that could reply, in text form, in the style of various celebrities.
Nobody cared, and less than a year later, Meta shut this feature down due to lack of interest.
But Meta wasn’t done. In August 2024, Meta launched a limited audio version of the same, with the company paying millions of dollars to record the voices of actors such as Judi Dench, Keegan-Michael Key and Awkwafina for AI chatbots.
That didn’t resonate either. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported in April 2025 that some users had used the feature to generate explicit content voiced by these celebrities. That ultimately led to the demise of the feature before an expanded roll-out.
The addition of custom voices for Muse bots isn’t exactly the same, but even so, Meta seems very dedicated to a novelty idea that nobody else seems to care about.
Either way, users can now give their Muse agent a voice, so that they can walk around in public looking totally normal as they talk out loud to an AI character on their phone.
