Feature guide

Custom Conversation

Custom Conversation can coach you through a situation, rehearse it with an AI partner or act as an Information Source that answers from your documents. Touch and hold Custom Conversation, tap Settings › Your scenarios and sources and create a template for your purpose. You can choose its AI, source policy, context, saved history and button style, then use an Information Source with Questions or supported calls. Live coaching needs headphones; uploaded content and questions go to the selected AI, and a provider’s own-key charges apply.

Create a scenario

  1. Touch and hold Custom Conversation on the main screen, then tap Settings.
  2. Tap Your scenarios and sources.
  3. Tap the Add button (+), enter a name and tap Add.
  4. Open the template and fill in Scenario, The Other Person, You and Goal.
  5. Return to Your scenarios and sources and tap the circle beside the template to make it active.

Only one template is active at a time. Changes in its editor save automatically; there is no separate Save button.

Create an Information Source

  1. Open a template in Your scenarios and sources.
  2. Under Purpose, choose Information Source in Use this template for.
  3. Describe the subject and how you want answers explained.
  4. Choose Only my materials or Materials + general AI knowledge.
  5. Under Reference Documents, tap Upload reference files or Write or paste information. Add the facts, definitions and procedures the answers should use.
  6. Wait for imports to finish and review any partial or failed files.
  7. Activate the template, return to the main screen, choose Custom Conversation and tap the big button.

Ask about the material, for example “What does the handbook say about expense receipts?” An Information Source answers you; it does not play the other person or start a call.

Control what answers may use

Only my materials returns verified excerpts from the saved reference text, with document names. When the materials do not support an answer, it says so. Put factual definitions and policies in the reference materials, not only in the instructions field. Materials + general AI knowledge also permits the model’s existing knowledge, which can be incomplete or outdated. Neither option browses the web. Questions and relevant excerpts are still sent to the selected AI, so this is not an offline mode.

Use the source with Questions

  1. In the source editor, tap Use with Questions. Alternatively, touch and hold Questions, tap Settings and choose the source under Answer from your information.
  2. Ask your question while Reverbot is listening. The source’s answer policy applies, including when Questions runs beside translation.
  3. Choose None — general questions to return to ordinary answers.

With Room, nearby people can ask too; Solo favors your voice. This can accompany a conversation on another device. iPhone may prevent access to the microphone while another calling app owns it.

On a phone-number call placed through Reverbot, Just you uses the selected Questions source, or an active source selected through Custom Conversation before dialing. For Both of you, choose Information Source and complete the mandatory recipient announcement and permission flow first.

Give the coach useful information

For a job interview, describe the role and interview stage, enter the interviewer’s name and priorities, list your actual experience, and state a concrete goal such as “Explain my leadership experience and agree on the next step.” Use my profile includes your Settings › About you information; turn it off when that background is irrelevant. Do not ask the coach to invent credentials or personal facts.

Add references and choose an AI

In the scenario, use Upload reference files (PDF, Office files, images, text and other supported formats) for a résumé, job description or notes. Assign each document as About me, About them or Shared context so the AI can distinguish the sources. Review the scenario’s AI choice; System Default AI at the bottom of Your scenarios and sources sets the starting choice for new scenarios. Provider keys, access and costs still apply.

Run the real conversation

Choose the live-coaching style in the scenario. Select its main-screen pill and tap the big button. Use headphones selected as the audio output and keep the phone microphone where it can hear both people; Room is selected for this mode. Listen to the suggestion, then decide what to say. Stop with the main listening control when finished. For private material, check that the active scenario and other person’s name are correct before starting.

Rehearse before using it live

Use the scenario’s Practice style or Rehearse first in Custom Conversation settings. Reverbot plays the other person and you answer aloud, with no real participant present. Live coaching and Standard practice listen in English; use a configured Live rehearsal partner for other supported conversation languages. End rehearsal before expecting the app to listen to a real conversation.

Choose the pill and button style

  • Main-screen button name is optional. Leave it blank to show Custom Conversation; the field limits its length so the pill fits.
  • The pill stays on the third Listening mode row beside Voice Changer.
  • In the template editor, Button style gives that saved template its own look. Same as Custom Conversation uses the mode’s style.
  • Saved conversations files conversations under the other person’s name. Open one to read it; touch and hold an older run to resume it.

Rehearsals start fresh and do not continue a real person’s conversation.

Export deliberately

Export template includes the scenario and extracted document text, not the original PDFs. Export with saved conversations additionally includes the saved conversation history. To bring a file back, open Your scenarios and sources › Import a conversation file; it creates a new editable template. Check sensitive attachments and history before sharing either export.

If it doesn’t work

  • If the feature will not start, activate one usable template. A coaching scenario needs a name and scenario, other-person or goal information.
  • If a source finds no answer, check its imported text. With Only my materials, unsupported answers are deliberately refused.
  • If advice is generic, add a specific situation, actual background and a clear goal.
  • If it refers to the wrong person, check Their name and the selected saved conversation.
  • If answers fail, check the template’s AI and its key or allowance.
  • If you expected an exact transcript, review Keep their exact words; rehearsal transcripts are kept in full.

Still not working? In Settings, under Feedback, tap Report a Bug. Do not attach private documents unless needed and permitted.

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