Talk to Maison from your phone, your desk, or the car. It hears you and answers on your own computer.
Most voice assistants forget you when you stop talking. Maison knows the whole story, so you can just say it, in your own words.
Start something out loud on the drive home. Pick it up in writing later. Same conversation, no repeating yourself.
Conversations are examples.
Yes, from your phone, your desk or the car. Hold to talk or just start talking. The speech goes to your own machine and the voice that answers is generated there too, so the whole exchange happens on hardware you own.
No. Turning your speech into words, searching your memory, and generating the voice that answers all run on your own chip, and all three keep working with the network off. Only the hard reasoning leaves, through your own account with the model provider.
Those hold one request at a time, which is why after years of owning one you still ask it three things. Maison is a conversation that has been running for months, so you can say chase the thing we talked about on Tuesday and be understood.
That is one of the places it earns its keep. The half hour that was dead becomes the half hour where you hand over the day, and the work is underway before you have parked.
No. There is no prompt engineering and no course to take. You can change your mind halfway through the sentence, say it out of order, or forget the name of the thing and describe it, and if it genuinely cannot work out what you meant it asks rather than guessing.
Yes. It is the same Maison and the same memory whether you use your voice, your phone, a browser or your desk. Start it in the kitchen and pick it up an hour later without repeating yourself.