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Avatar Studio

Since 2.0.0, your assistant has a face you can see. Avatar Studio is a window of the board where you build and assign avatars. It replaced the small face cards that used to live under Settings › Profile.

What an avatar is​

An avatar is one named character:

  • a face of particles. Humans, animals and robots ship bundled. A face from a photo is also possible.
  • a voice. Use the app voice, a system voice, a local engine, ElevenLabs, or a voice from the voice forge.
  • a language for that voice
  • a personality lens for how the orb answers on that desktop

Creating several avatars is free. Bundled faces stay free. A face built from your own photo needs an Engramm license.

How to open it​

  • Settings › Profile has the button that opens Avatar Studio.
  • The dock can open it as well.

Catalogue and atelier​

The studio has two screens.

  1. Catalogue. A grid of models by family (humans, animals, robots, your own). Search, filter free or licensed, pick a size for the tiles. Selecting a model fills the selection panel. Add creates an avatar from that model.
  2. Atelier. The avatar sits in the centre. Nodes around it open Face, Personality, Voice, Language and Desktops. Only one panel is open at a time.

The centre stage shows the living face: breathing, blinking, sixteen emotions, eyes that follow the pointer, mouth that moves with speech.

One avatar per desktop​

Each desktop of the board can wear its own avatar. When you switch desktop, the backdrop face follows. A desktop without its own avatar wears the default one.

The Desktops node (and the selection panel in the catalogue) lets you assign or remove an avatar from each desktop.

Voice while a desktop is shown​

While a desktop that wears an avatar is active, read-aloud uses that avatar's voice. Settings › Voice still holds the app-wide voice for Hermes and for moments when no avatar voice applies.