Source: the-decoder.com
What shipped
The feature is available in ChatGPT Work on computers and mobile devices. By voice, users can create:
The update has already appeared in the latest app version. Access to email, calendars and Slack gives ChatGPT Voice a broader role than a standalone conversational interface: it can now sit closer to the flow of everyday work.
The Her comparison
For OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, this is another step toward an everyday AI assistant resembling the one in the science-fiction film Her. Altman referred to the film in 2024, when the first version of ChatGPT Voice was released.
OpenAI sees this approach as a way to change how people interact with computers, while acknowledging the risks that come with it. I think that tension is more important than the cinematic comparison. Voice becomes more useful as it reaches more of a person's working environment, but the same expansion makes the boundaries harder to ignore.
The announcement is quiet about the details that would define those boundaries: what the assistant can do inside email, calendars and Slack, and how much control a user retains once voice moves from conversation into work. That silence leaves ChatGPT Voice looking less like a finished assistant than a bet on a new interface.
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