Voice Forms: He Knows Exactly What The SWMS Should Say. He Just Can't Type It.
That sentence is the whole reason this update exists.
Think about who actually fills in your forms. An inspector with gloves on, dust in the air, one hand on a ladder. A cleaner at 5am. A tech under a sink. They know the answers. Every single one of them. What they cannot do is tap through thirty questions on a phone.
So the answers live in their head, then in the ute, then nowhere. And when the client asks for proof six months later, you have a gap.
Eaco AI could already build a form from a typed brief. A filler could already save a draft field by field. The missing piece was the microphone.
Shipped 16 September. Two places. Say it, and the form fills.
Half one: describe the form out loud
On Create form, the Build with Eaco AI box now has a microphone sitting next to the paperclip.
Tap it. Say what the form needs. Tap again.
A recording can run up to ten minutes. The button turns red and counts up while it listens. A few seconds after you stop, the transcript drops into the prompt box, editable like anything you typed. Fix a word, add a line, attach a photo of the old paper form as well if you like, then hit Generate form.
Trade terms are given to the recogniser as hints, so SWMS, PPE and site induction come out spelled right instead of as nonsense.
Thirty seconds of talking becomes a roofing SWMS. That is the trade.
Half two: fill any form by talking
This is the bigger one.
Open any form from Fill in forms and there is a new bar pinned above the questions: Fill by voice.
Say the answers in whatever order they come to you. Name the question, then the answer, and move on. Up to five minutes per take. Tap Done and the app matches what you said to the form's fields.
Then, and this is the part that makes it usable in a compliance business, it shows you what it heard before it writes a single thing.
The review sheet is the feature
Every proposed answer arrives with the phrase it came from and a confidence mark: high, medium or low.
Low ones start unticked. You have to actively agree to them.
Anything you said that matched no field is listed rather than dropped, so nothing you told it disappears silently.
Untick any row you do not want and it is left alone. Discard throws the whole lot away. A field you had already answered is only replaced if you said something new about it.
Twenty four seconds of narrating a monthly cleaning audit filled six fields: four Completed or Incomplete checks, the inspector's comments in clean sentences, and a satisfaction rating of eight. Client Comments was never mentioned, so it stayed empty.
That is the correct behaviour. Silence is not an answer.
It looks records up, it does not guess them
Say a property, person, job, asset or customer by name and the app searches the same list the picker uses.
One clear match fills the field. More than one and you choose, and nothing is written until you do. Say "donor centre is Myer" and you get a chooser between the two Myer sites. Say the full name and it resolves on its own.
The picker then holds the real record, exactly as if you had searched and tapped it.
And photos, signatures, uploads and map pins are never filled from a recording. Ever. Those need hands and they should.
The rules do not change
Voice writes through the same path as typing. Required fields, logic that shows and hides questions, autosave, validation, all of it behaves exactly as if you had tapped it in.
It runs on the web on Create form and Fill in forms, for anyone with the Eaco AI permission. A recording costs a couple of credits a minute at most and counts against the same allowance as building a form. When the allowance is spent, nothing runs.
Why this is not just an AI feature
Here is the frame that matters.
The reason your compliance records have holes in them is not that your people are lazy. It is that the cost of recording something is higher than the perceived cost of not recording it.
Every tap, every dropdown, every "which form was it again" adds to that cost. Drop the cost of capture below the cost of skipping it and the records fill themselves in.
That is the whole game. Not the AI. The friction.
Want to see it on your worst form?
Book a demo and bring the form your crew complains about most. The thirty question one. The one that gets done in the car park at the end of the day, badly.
We will fill it by voice in front of you, in under a minute, and you will see the review sheet catch its own uncertainty.
If you watch that and still think your team will keep tapping, do not buy anything.
