@governa As stated, the hands-free Messaging is for Premium Users. More detailed, it is based on an anonymized proxy to #OpenAI. There is a heated debate at the moment.
https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509
This feature is not enabled by default.
User can still install get offline, local voice recognition. Both work well but require some computing power.