YanMate

AI voice chat you can actually talk to

Two different things get called voice chat. One is a character reading its reply aloud after it has written it. The other is a live call — you speak, it hears you, it answers, and neither of you is typing. YanMate does both, and both are on the free tier rather than held behind a plan.

That second one is the harder thing to build and the one most companion products either lack or reserve for subscribers. It is the difference between a chatbot with a play button and a conversation you can have while walking.

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How it works

  1. Pick a character and start typing

    Voice is not a separate mode you enter. Open any character, have a normal conversation, and the spoken reply is there when you want it.

  2. Tap to hear a reply

    The character speaks the message in its own voice. Stage directions are not read aloud — what you hear is what it said, not what it did.

  3. Or place a call

    A live audio conversation: you talk, it answers, and there is a transcript afterwards so nothing said in a call is lost when it ends.

What voice changes about a conversation

Typing sets a pace. You compose, you edit the sentence before you send it, and the character answers something considered. Speaking removes all of that: you say the half-formed thing, and what comes back arrives at the speed of an answer rather than the speed of a draft. Characters written with a distinct voice — a register, a rhythm, a way of stopping mid-thought — read differently out loud than they do on a page.

It is also the accessible path. Reading a long reply on a phone is work; hearing it is not. And for anyone practising a language or rehearsing something they have to say out loud to a person later, a spoken back-and-forth is the only version of the exercise that is actually the exercise.

Voice and calls are metered from the same credit balance as everything else, so there is no separate voice plan to understand — the free tier includes an amount of both each month, and paid plans raise the amount rather than unlocking the feature.

Somewhere to start

  • 3 openings

    Abena Mensah

    Head back. Now, what's going on?

    slice of life
  • 3 openings

    Ada Lovelace

    The engine weaves patterns.

    icon
  • 3 openings

    Adaeze Nwosu

    Say your price. Now say it slower.

    mentor
  • 3 openings

    Ambrose Quill

    Three had a key. One mentioned rain.

    mystery
  • 3 openings

    Anansi

    I don't win fights. I win after.

    folklore
  • 3 openings

    Arjun Iyer

    Show me where you got stuck.

    school

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Common questions

Do I need to pay to use voice?
No. Spoken replies and live calls are both on YanMate's free tier, with a monthly amount included. Paid plans raise that amount; they do not decide whether voice exists for you.
What is the difference between a spoken reply and a call?
A spoken reply is the character reading a written message aloud, on a conversation you are typing. A call is live audio in both directions — you speak, it hears you, and it answers without either of you typing. A call also leaves a transcript you can read afterwards.
Does every character have its own voice?
Yes — a character's voice is part of how it was written, not a generic reader applied to all of them. If you take your own private copy of a character, the voice is one of the things you can change.
Does voice work on my phone?
Yes. Spoken replies and live calls both work in the mobile browser — the same site, with no app to install. A call asks for the microphone the first time you place one; a spoken reply needs nothing but your speaker.

Everything else about how YanMate works is in the YanMate FAQ.

An AI character on YanMate.