Sam Altman has been pointing at the same movie since 2024. With this update, ChatGPT Voice can finally do the kind of chores the AI in “Her” handled.
OpenAI’s voice mode, which is available worldwide, now runs on the company’s new GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna models. It can also use plugins for the first time, including email, calendar and Slack.
Talking replaces tapping
Voice used to be a chat interface you spoke to. Now it can act. You can ask it to look up calendar events or send emails without touching a keyboard.
OpenAI’s examples go further than inbox management. ChatGPT can spot duplicate charges in finance apps and cancel them, and it can build a website with a checkout page, all by voice.
OpenAI’s demo video sticks to more ordinary errands, like checking the weather and shopping online.
Those are safe choices for a demo. They also avoid the harder question of how well the tool handles messy real-world requests.
Voice comes to work, too
The feature also works in “ChatGPT Work” on web and mobile. There, you can create documents, presentations and spreadsheets just by talking.
Dictating a spreadsheet sounds awkward in theory. But if the output holds up, it removes a lot of clicking from routine office work.
The update is available now in the latest version of the app.
The “Her” ambition has a catch
For OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, this is another step toward an everyday AI assistant like the one in the sci-fi film “Her.” Altman cited the movie as a reference in 2024, when the first version of ChatGPT Voice launched.
OpenAI sees a chance to change how people use computers. That ambition carries risk, though. An assistant that can cancel charges and send emails on your behalf is only as trustworthy as its judgment, and a spoken command leaves less room to double-check what it’s about to do.
If you try it, start small: a calendar lookup, not a refund.
