diff --git a/packages/stage/src/components/Layouts/InteractiveArea.vue b/packages/stage/src/components/Layouts/InteractiveArea.vue
index 3df5b0740..df8216a9b 100644
--- a/packages/stage/src/components/Layouts/InteractiveArea.vue
+++ b/packages/stage/src/components/Layouts/InteractiveArea.vue
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ const { audioInputs } = useDevicesList({ constraints: { audio: true }, requestPe
 const { selectedAudioDevice, isAudioInputOn, selectedAudioDeviceId } = storeToRefs(useSettings())
 const { send, onAfterSend } = useChatStore()
 const { audioContext } = useAudioContext()
+const { t } = useI18n()
 
 const { transcribe: generate, load: loadWhisper, status: whisperStatus, terminate } = useWhisper(WhisperWorker, {
   onComplete: async (res) => {
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ const { transcribe: generate, load: loadWhisper, status: whisperStatus, terminat
   },
 })
 
+async function handleSend() {
+  await send(messageInput.value)
+}
+
 const { destroy, start } = useMicVAD(selectedAudioDeviceId, {
   onSpeechStart: () => {
     // TODO: interrupt the playback
@@ -154,8 +159,24 @@ onAfterSend(async () => {
       </label>
     </fieldset>
     <div h-full max-h="[85vh]" w-full px-12 py-4>
-      <div border="solid 4 pink-100 dark:pink-400/20" h-full w-full overflow-scroll rounded-xl p-4>
-        <ChatHistory />
+      <div
+        flex="~ col"
+        border="solid 4 pink-100 dark:pink-400/20"
+        h-full w-full overflow-scroll rounded-xl
+      >
+        <ChatHistory h-full flex-1 p-4 w="full" max-h="[80vh]" />
+        <div flex gap-2>
+          <BasicTextarea
+            v-model="messageInput"
+            :placeholder="t('stage.message')"
+            text="pink-300 hover:pink-500 dark:pink-300/50 dark:hover:pink-500 placeholder:pink-300 placeholder:hover:pink-500 placeholder:dark:pink-300/50 placeholder:dark:hover:pink-500"
+            bg="pink-100 dark:pink-400/20"
+            min-h="[100px]" w-full
+            rounded-xl p-4 font-medium
+            outline-none transition="all duration-250 ease-in-out placeholder:all placeholder:duration-250 placeholder:ease-in-out"
+            @submit="handleSend"
+          />
+        </div>
       </div>
     </div>
     <div flex="~ row" gap-2>
diff --git a/packages/stage/src/components/Widgets/ChatHistory.vue b/packages/stage/src/components/Widgets/ChatHistory.vue
index 6c2e533d7..d5879438e 100644
--- a/packages/stage/src/components/Widgets/ChatHistory.vue
+++ b/packages/stage/src/components/Widgets/ChatHistory.vue
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ onTokenLiteral(async () => {
   <div
     relative
     class="<lg:(absolute bottom-0 from-zinc-100/80 to-zinc-800/0 bg-gradient-to-t p-2 dark:from-zinc-800/80)"
-    px="<sm:2" py="<sm:2" w="full" flex="~ col 1"
-    rounded="lg" max-h="[80vh]"
+    px="<sm:2" py="<sm:2" flex="~ col"
+    rounded="lg"
     overflow-hidden
   >
     <div ref="chatHistoryRef" v-auto-animate h-full w-full overflow-scroll>