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OpenAI: Voice mode FAQ. Given how impressed I was by the Gemini 2.0 Flash audio and video streaming demo on Wednesday it's only fair that I highlight that OpenAI shipped their equivalent of that feature to ChatGPT in production on Thursday, for day 6 of their "12 days of OpenAI" series.

I got access in the ChatGPT iPhone app this morning. It's equally impressive: in an advanced voice mode conversation you can now tap the camera icon to start sharing a live video stream with ChatGPT. I introduced it to my chickens and told it their names and it was then able to identify each of them later in that same conversation. Apparently the ChatGPT desktop app can do screen sharing too, though that feature hasn't rolled out to me just yet.

(For the rest of December you can also have it take on a Santa voice and personality - I had Santa read me out Haikus in Welsh about what he could see through my camera earlier.)

Given how cool this is, it's frustrating that there's no obvious page (other than this FAQ) to link to for the announcement of the feature! Surely this deserves at least an article in the OpenAI News blog?

This is why I think it's important to Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas.