Managing bookings usually means clicking through calendars, forms, and menus. What if you could just say what you wanted instead?

MIDAS v4.43 introduces Voice Control – a hands-free way to navigate your booking system, manage reservations, and take care of everyday admin tasks, just by speaking naturally.

How it works

Click the microphone icon, say what you want, and MIDAS takes care of the rest. No rigid command syntax to memorise, no button hunting – just plain English.

Want to check what’s on today? Just say:

“What’s on today?”

Need to book the Guest Room for 11am tomorrow?

“Book the guest room tomorrow from 11am to 2pm”

Looking for an invoice?

“Show me invoice MIDAS0155”

That’s it. MIDAS listens, understands, and acts.

What you can do with your voice

Voice Control covers the tasks you reach for most:

• Navigate your calendar – jump to any date, step forward or back by days, weeks or months, or say “show next Friday’s bookings”
• Add bookings – specify a venue, date, time, and client all in one sentence
• Modify, move, or copy bookings – reschedule a booking to a new time, duplicate it to another room, or move it to next week
• Delete bookings – cancel with a single spoken command, with a confirmation step to prevent mistakes
• Manage reminders and availability watches – add a reminder or a watch for any booking without leaving the calendar view
• Generate and view invoices – create an invoice for a booking, or jump straight to an existing one by reference number
• Search – find bookings, clients, or invoices matching a keyword
• Check notifications – ask for your messages, reminders, or availability watches
• Jump to admin settings – open any settings page by name, from user management to security options
• Sign out, view statistics, check recent activity – and more

MIDAS is also flexible about how you phrase things. Say “cancel,” “delete,” or “remove” – they all work. Ask for a booking “in the guest room at 2pm” or “at 2pm in the guest room” – either order is understood. You can even say “please” or “could you” if that’s how you naturally talk; MIDAS will politely ignore the pleasantries and get straight to the task.

We’ve also put together a comprehensive Voice Command Reference guide for you to explore.

Two ways to talk to MIDAS

Voice Control supports two modes to suit how you like to work:

• Momentary mode – press and speak a single command, then release. Ideal for quick, one-off actions.
• Toggle (“Hey MIDAS”) mode – activate listening once and issue a stream of commands hands-free, prefixing each with “Hey MIDAS.” Great for busy front-desk environments where reaching for a mouse isn’t always convenient.

When MIDAS asks for confirmation – for example, before deleting a booking – you can simply respond “yes” or “cancel” without needing to repeat the wake phrase.

Built with the same permissions you already trust

Voice Control respects your existing MIDAS permission structure. If a user doesn’t have permission to delete bookings, manage users, or view invoices, voice commands for those actions are blocked in exactly the same way the standard interface already protects them. Nothing new to configure – it simply works within the access rules you’ve already set up.

Give it a try

Voice Control is available from MIDAS v4.43 (and later) for all users with the appropriate permissions.

You can also try it out right now in our FREE public demo.

Just look for the microphone icon in your MIDAS toolbar, click it, and start talking.

Whether you’re juggling a packed calendar or just want a faster way to get things done, Voice Control is designed to get out of your way – so you can focus on the booking, not the interface.

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