ChatGPT now supports voice chats on iPhone and Android — here’s how to enable it and what happens once you start talking to the chatbot.
Over 700 of OpenAI’s 778 employees sided with Sam Altman after he was ousted, threatening to leave the company for Microsoft if the board didn’t resign. That happened on Monday, and a day later, the situation had been resolved. Sam Altman is back as CEO. The board will see changes, and it’s only the beginning. Also, an investigation into what happened since Friday will follow.
But ChatGPT never ceased to work. ChatGPT Plus signups might still be paused, but the free service did not see any issues caused by the internal turmoil. Even better, the official ChatGPT mobile app got a big upgrade on Tuesday, several hours before Altman’s return. That’s to say that several OpenAI engineers were still doing their jobs despite the dramatic twists and turns around them.
The big upgrade many users of the free ChatGPT version is voice support. You can now speak to the chatbot, and it can answer back. If the feature sounds familiar, that’s because OpenAI rolled it out in late September. The company announced ChatGPT’s new abilities to see, hear and speak. But they were available to Plus and Enterprise users at the time.
But OpenAI said the features would be available to free users in the future. It looks like it all starts with support for voice prompts, which should be available inside the official ChatGPT app for iPhone and Android.
