Voice Orb
A liquid voice orb: a glowing blob whose edge breathes with the voice level, two pigments swirling inside and a drifting highlight. Feed it a level or let it simulate idle, listening and speaking.
- Category: React AI Chat and Agent Components
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Voice Orb
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
state | "idle" | "listening" | "speaking" | "listening" | |
level | number | — | 0 to 1; simulated when left out. |
size | number | 180 | |
color | string | "var(--ember)" | |
accent | string | "#a78bfa" |
About Voice Orb
Voice Orb is a glowing liquid blob for voice interfaces. Its edge breathes with the audio level, two pigments swirl inside, and a highlight drifts across. Feed it a level from your microphone or model, or let it simulate idle, listening and speaking.
Voice Orb is an AI interface component for React 19, styled with Tailwind CSS 4 and animated with Motion. It drops into Next.js, Vite, Remix or Astro through the shadcn CLI as a single file you own.
When to use Voice Orb
- Voice assistants and call agents.
- Speech-to-text capture screens.
- AI companions and kiosks.
- Hero visuals for voice products.
How it works
It draws on a canvas, with the outline built from layered waves around a circle whose radius follows the level. State changes ease the energy rather than snapping, and reduced motion holds a calm, still orb.
Streaming and status changes go through live regions, every action is a labelled button that works from the keyboard, and decorative motion stops for people who prefer reduced motion. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Voice Orb
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
The Customize panel next to the preview lets you change state, size, color, accent live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- state (default "listening").
- level (number): 0 to 1; simulated when left out.
- size (number, default 180).
- color (string, default "var(--ember)").
- accent (string, default "#a78bfa").
Goes well with Voice Orb
These ai pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Typing Indicator: A React typing indicator: a bubble with rippling dots that tells screen readers who is typing
- Thinking Orb: A React AI thinking orb with nine motions for nine kinds of busy
- AI Prompt Input: An animated React AI chat input: growing field, attachments, model picker and a stop button
- Voice Input: A React voice input: the mic expands into a live waveform with a timer and cancel
- Message Scroller: A React chat viewport that follows streaming text and lets go when you scroll up
Install Voice Orb
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/voice-orbVoice Orb is part of Charcoal UI Pro. One seat unlocks all 393 Pro components, 112 landing-page sections and 100 full templates, for every personal and client project, with updates included. Add the @charcoal registry once with your access token, then the command above copies voice-orb.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge.
You own the file you install: no runtime package, no lock-in, nothing to keep in sync. Change it however your product needs.
See Charcoal UI Pro pricing · Pro setup
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install Voice Orb?
- Voice Orb is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/voice-orb. It copies voice-orb.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Voice Orb free for commercial use?
- Voice Orb needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.
- Does Voice Orb work with Next.js?
- Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.
- Can an AI coding agent install Voice Orb?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Voice Orb's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.