Part 05 · Using it · Hands free

Cooking with your voice

Turn it on and Cooper reads the step aloud, so you can keep both hands in the food.

Where this is in iWhisk

Cook with Cooper, hands-free with Chef Cooper

Along the bottom of Cook with Cooper sits Hands-free with Chef Cooper, which comes with Plus. Turn it on and your browser will ask for microphone access the first time. Cooper then shows whether it is listening or speaking, so you are never talking to something that is not paying attention.

5.05.1

Three commands worth learning

Repeat step. For when the extractor fan won.
Check timer, which becomes Pause timer while one is running. Either way, without wiping your hands on your jeans.
Next step. Moves you on.

They are printed on screen under try a command, which is worth more than a help page: the things it can do are visible while you are doing them, and they change with the situation rather than sitting there as a fixed list.

The point of all of it is that a step needs no hands. Cooper reads it, you cook it, you say when you are done, and nothing asks you to touch a screen you have just had your fingers in raw chicken next to.

5.05.2

Cooper’s cue stays on screen

Whatever Cooper says aloud also appears as text on the step, under Cooper’s cue. If you missed it over the noise, you can read it rather than ask again.

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The voice you hear is not Cooper’s yetThe words are currently spoken by your device’s own voice, which is clear enough to cook to but has none of Cooper about it. A proper Cooper voice is in progress and will replace it. Nothing else changes when it lands: the commands, the cue on screen and the way the bar behaves all stay as they are.

5.05.3

Where your voice actually goes

The app says it plainly on the bar, and it matters: speech is handled by your browser or your device provider. The recognition is not something iWhisk performs. If you want to know what that means for your data, that is a question about your browser or phone as much as about us. See 7.01.