Choose your voice mode setup
There are really three different voice experiences in Hermes. Mode Best for Platform Interactive microphone loop Personal hands-free use while coding or researching CLI Voice replies in chat Spoken responses alongside normal messaging Telegram, Discord Live voice channel bot Group or personal live conversation in a VC Discord voice channels A good path is: get text working first enable voice replies second move to Discord voice channels last if you want the full experience
From the official Hermes Agent documentation.