You can now talk with ChatGPT’s Enhanced Voice Mode on the web
If you rely on it ChatGPT for your daily workflow, you can often open a tab with a chatbot on your desktop. Now, right from your desktop, you will have the opportunity to access OpenAI Advanced voice mode — and you’ll want to.
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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced – via an X post – that Enhanced Voice Mode is starting to roll out on the web, expanding the voice assistant’s availability beyond the desktop app. desk and mobile devices. This implementation makes Enhanced Voice Mode the most accessible ever because it removes the barrier of downloading an app to get started.
Advanced Voice refers to OpenAI’s AI-powered voice assistant that can be interrupted, host multi-turn conversations, and respond to user emotions for an intuitive and useful chat experience more. It solves the problem that most voice assistants have when trying to understand what is said.
While this may sound hard to believe, in my testing, Enhanced Voice Mode was capable of holding long conversations and understanding me even when my thinking wasn’t linear. Some fun use cases include chatting with ChatGPT about your day, playing trivia games, or talking about yourself. However, it has the same practical use cases as a regular voice assistant.
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Unfortunately, despite the expanded availability, users still have to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus which costs $20 per month. If you’re a ChatGPT superuser, then the upgrade might be worth it as it comes with other perks like access to all the latest OpenAI models, including o1-preview, more messages five times for GPT-4o, image creation, etc
Users still cannot access Voice Mode’s multimodal capabilities, including supporting content on the user’s screen and using the user’s phone camera as context for responses, which OpenAI still A release date has not been shared yet.