OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

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6:36 AM PDT · July 24, 2026

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  • Ivan Mehta

OpenAI connected Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to adhd enactment for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to speech to the app to power AI agents and execute tasks connected their computer.

The caller diagnostic taps OpenAI’s caller household of dependable models called ChatGPT-Live, which it launched earlier this month.

OpenAI said ChatGPT Voice works with some ChatGPT Work and Codex, and tin besides pat machine usage skills to look up websites and apps. Plus, connected macOS, with Appshots, users tin fto the app entree what’s connected their screen, including alt-text.

At launch, ChatGPT Voice’s smartphone mentation featured smoother conversations, with amended interruption handling, but it was not built to instrumentality enactment connected smartphones.

Thursday’s desktop update is much capable, allowing users to dictate analyzable commands involving galore steps, and respond erstwhile ChatGPT needs their input.

In a demo video, OpenAI showed a developer asking ChatGPT to make a caller thread, marque a propulsion request, and find the basal origin for a bug, with 1 command.

ChatGPT Voice is present successful the desktop app.

Control your machine and nonstop aggregate agents moving successful ChatGPT Work oregon Codex, utilizing conscionable your voice.

It's powered by GPT-Live, truthful it tin speak, listen, and coordinate enactment successful the app astatine the aforesaid time.

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The institution said that users tin utilize ChatGPT Voice successful Codex from the iOS app done distant access.

Anthropic has besides updated its voice mode for Claude, which tin pat the company’s Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models to implicit tasks successful apps similar Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, and Canva.

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