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Your guide to voice chats with ChatGPT, from setting up and using the voice mode to understanding its capabilities and limitations.
Note:
Data retention for certain services may be affected by recent legal developments – please see our blog post for more details
General FAQ
What are Voice chats?
Voice conversations allow you to have a spoken conversation with ChatGPT, enabling a more conversational and natural interaction.
You can ask questions or have discussions through voice input and receive a spoken response from ChatGPT.
Voice conversations are powered by natively multimodal models, and are available to all logged-in users in ChatGPT mobile apps, desktop apps, and on desktop web at ChatGPT.com.
Voice conversations may make mistakes, so please check important information.
You can learn more about ChatGPT and accuracy here.
Access to Voice and the associated usage limits are subject to change.
How do I start a voice conversation?
On Mobile
To start a Voice conversation, select the Voice icon on the bottom-right of the screen:
When you begin a Voice conversation, you will be taken to a screen with a blue orb in the center.
iPhone displaying the ChatGPT iOS app during an advanced voice chat.
When you are having a Voice conversation, you can mute or unmute your microphone by selecting the microphone icon on the bottom-left of the screen.
You can end the conversation by pressing the exit icon on the bottom-right of the screen.
If you start a Voice chat for the first time you will also be asked to pick a voice.
Please note that the volume of the voice in the selector may be different from the volume during the voice conversation.
You can change your voice any time in settings or from within voice mode using the customization menu in the top right corner.
Please note that you will need to provide the ChatGPT app Microphone permission to use this feature.
On Web
Voice conversations are available on desktop web at ChatGPT.com.
To start a voice conversation on chatgpt.com, select the Voice icon on the right side of the prompt window:
If this is your first time using voice on your browser, you may need to provide your browser permission to access your device’s microphone.
When you begin a voice conversation, you will be taken to a screen with an orb in the center.
When you are having a voice conversation, you can mute or unmute your microphone by selecting the microphone icon on the bottom-left of the screen.
You can end the conversation by pressing the exit icon on the bottom-right of the screen.
If you start a voice chat for the first time you will also be asked to pick a voice.
Please note that the volume of the voice in the selector may be different from the volume during the voice conversation.
You can change your voice any time in settings or from within voice mode using the customization menu in the top right corner.
How do I share my video with ChatGPT while having a voice conversation?
Video is enabled on the iOS and Android mobile apps for subscribers.
You can share video from your devices at any time during a voice chat by selecting the camera button at the bottom of the screen.
You can press this button again to stop sharing your video with ChatGPT.
How do I share a photo or my screen with ChatGPT while having a voice conversation?
Screenshare and image uploads are enabled on the iOS and Android mobile apps only for subscribers.
You can press the three dots button and select Share Screen from the pop-up menu to share an image or your screen with ChatGPT.
Choosing the option to take a photo will bring up your camera so you can take and upload it to your voice conversation right away.
Choosing the option to upload a photo will allow you to choose from the images on your phone to share with ChatGPT in your voice conversation
Selecting share screen will bring up your phone’s screen share options, allowing you to broadcast your screen to ChatGPT.
How do I stop sharing my screen with ChatGPT while having a voice conversation?
Once you’ve started screensharing, you can tap the screenshare button again to stop sharing your screen with ChatGPT.
If you are screensharing outside the app, you can tap your phone’s system indicator
(Apple shows a red dot at the top of the screen and Android shows a green mic at the top of the screen).
A pop-up will appear on the screen prompting you to stop screen sharing.
Alternatively, you can go back into the app and directly stop sharing by tapping the screenshare button or tapping the “x” button, which will also end conversation.
How many voice options are available?
Choose from nine life-like output voices for ChatGPT, each with its own distinct tone and character:
Arbor – Easygoing and versatile
Breeze – Animated and earnest
Cove – Composed and direct
Ember – Confident and optimistic
Juniper – Open and upbeat
Maple – Cheerful and candid
Sol – Savvy and relaxed
Spruce – Calm and affirming
Vale – Bright and inquisitive
For how long can I have voice chats (audio only)?
For subscribers, your daily use of ChatGPT voice is nearly unlimited each day, and limits may change.
For these users, voice sessions automatically begin with our most advanced voice model: GPT-4o.
When you’ve used all your GPT-4o minutes for that day, you’ll be able to keep chatting in voice mode with GPT-4o mini.
For enterprise users on flexible pricing plans, use of ChatGPT voice with GPT-4o is unlimited subject to credit consumption.
Learn more about flexible pricing plans.
For logged in Free users, your use of ChatGPT voice is powered by GPT-4o mini and subject to a limit of hours each day.
Limits may change.
Pro subscribers have unlimited use of GPT-4o voice, subject to abuse guardrails.
Learn more about our Pro plan and associated limits.
For how long can I use video and screenshare in my voice chats?
Per user, usage of video and screen share capabilities is limited for all eligible plans on a daily basis.
We provide a notice as you are approaching the daily limit.
For subscribers, once your GPT-4o voice daily usage limit is reached, you will fallback to GPT-4o mini and no longer be able to share new video or screen share content until your GPT-4o usage limit resets.
Usage of video and screen share capabilities is also limited on a per-conversation basis.
If you reach the conversation limit, you will be able to start a new chat to continue using video and screenshare until you reach your usage limit.
Can I keep a conversation going in the background while I am in other apps or with my phone screen locked?
Yes, you can keep a conversation going in the background by toggling “Background Conversations” on in settings.
If you start a voice conversation with the background conversations setting on, your conversation will continue until one of the following occurs:
You manually end the conversation
You force close the app
You reach your daily usage limit (which differs depending on your ChatGPT plan)
Your conversation exceeds 1 hour in length
While you are screensharing with the ChatGPT app in the background, you will continue screensharing until one of the above occurs, you turn off screensharing, or you lock your screen.
Do you have any tips for preventing interruptions with voice conversations?
Occasionally, interruptions may happen during a voice conversation.
We recommend having voice conversations with headphones.
On iPhone, enabling Voice Isolation mic mode can help to avoid unintentional interruptions.
You can enable Voice Isolation by opening your Control Panel while having a voice conversation, selecting Mic Mode, and switching to Voice Isolation.
If you are still experiencing issues, we recommend closing your app and restarting, turning up the volume of your assistant, or moving to a quieter environment.
Can I have voice conversations with GPTs?
Yes, voice conversations are available with GPTs.
GPTs have their own voice option named Shimmer that is distinctly different from the nine output voices available to use when having voice conversations with ChatGPT.
Please note that Voice mode does not yet support tools such as image generation, file uploads, or the Code Interpreter.
Custom actions in GPTs are not available in Voice mode
ow do I change voices during a voice chat?
You can change your voice in settings or from the customization menu in the top right corner of voice mode.
Voices are set per conversation.
If you change your voice within voice mode, you will be prompted to start a new chat.
Why do the voice transcripts sometimes not match the conversation I had?
Voice conversations are inherently multimodal, allowing for direct audio exchange between you and the model.
As a result, when this audio is transcribed, the transcription might not always align perfectly with the original conversation.
Do voice conversations include subtitles?
You can enable captions for model responses on iOS and Android by tapping the ‘cc’ button in the top right corner inside voice mode.
After you exit a voice conversation, the transcription is added to your current text based conversation with ChatGPT.
You can refer back to the transcription of your conversation in your chat history on the left-hand side of the ChatGPT app on web and desktop and in the menu on the left-hand side of the ChatGPT mobile app.
How many voice conversations can I have going at once?\
You can only have one voice chat at a time.
Why does voice mode or dictation detect a different language from the one I’m speaking?
At times, the language you speak might not be accurately reflected in our voice input feature.
You can verbally correct the model to speak your language of choice.
For dictation, you can also specify a preferred language in the app Settings for a more accurate detection.
Open the sidebar by selecting the two lines on the top-left of the screen, and select your name at the bottom to open the Settings.
In the Settings page, scroll down to the Speech section.
Click on the “Main Language” dropdown to select your language.
Privacy & Controls
How long do you retain audio and video clips from my voice chats?
With voice conversations, audio and video clips from your voice chats are stored alongside the transcription that appears in your chat history.
We provide a visual indicator in the chat history that shows which chats happen with advanced voice mode:
just look for the grayed out text and the small microphone or camera.
Audio and video clips from your voice chats will be retained for as long as the chat is part of your chat history.
When you delete the chat, we’ll also delete the associated audio and video clip within 30 days unless we need to keep it for security or legal reasons or if you previously shared your audio or video clips with us to train our models and the audio or video clip was previously disassociated from your account.
You cannot recover chats once you delete them.
If you want to remove a chat from being visible in your chat history but retain it in your account, you should use the archive function.
Audio and video clips associated with archived chats continue to be retained.
Please refer to this article to understand how content may be used to train our models and the choices that you have.
With voice mode, audio clips from ChatGPT are transcribed before we generate a response.
We delete audio clips once transcription is complete, unless you’ve chosen to share your audio clips to train our models.
(Note: Audio clips are deleted even if the transcription itself fails).
Learn more about sharing your audio to train our models.
Do you train your models on audio or video clips from voice chats?
Nope, unless you choose to share audio or video clips from voice chats for us to train our models.
If you have Improve the model for everyone enabled, then we may use transcripts and other files (such as images uploaded to the conversation) from your voice chats to train our models, depending on your choices and plan.
But we won’t use the associated audio or video clips to train our models unless you have shared it with us for model training.
Learn more about your choices.
Sharing audio or video to train our models
By default, we won’t train our models with audio or video clips, including screensharing clips, from voice chats.
But Free, Plus, and Pro users may choose to share audio and video clips from their voice chats to help us train our models by enabling Improve the model for everyone in Data Controls and toggling on Include your audio recordings and Include your video recordings.
You can also respond affirmatively when we invite you to share audio and video clips for training.
If you have Improve the model for everyone enabled, we may use transcripts and other files (such as images uploaded into the conversation) from your voice chats to train our models, even if you are not sharing audio or video clips from your voice chats.
Who can share audio and video to train models?
ChatGPT users on Free, Plus and Pro plans can share audio and/or video from personal workspaces.
Users cannot share audio or video from voice chats in ChatGPT Business, Edu, and Enterprise workspaces.
What happens if I share my audio and video to train models?
If you choose to share your audio and video from voice chats, then going forward, we will use audio and video from your conversation to train our models.
Learn more about how we use your content to train our models.
It may be necessary for our team to review the audio or video clips that you’ve shared with us in order to use it for training.
For example, we might have a human on our team listen to an audio recording associated with a thumbs down feedback signal to identify where ChatGPT might have misinterpreted what was said.
How can I stop sharing audio and video?
You can stop sharing through the data controls page in your ChatGPT settings.
Just disable the include your audio recordings or include your video recordings toggles, or turn off Improve the model for everyone entirely.
What happens if I decide to stop sharing my audio or video?
If you choose to stop sharing, then audio or video from new voice chats will no longer be used to train our models.
Audio and video that was previously disassociated from your account may continue to be used to train our models.
Prior to using audio or video clips from voice chats for training, we take steps to reduce the amount of personal information in the clip.
If you stop sharing your audio or video from your voice chats, we may still use transcriptions and other files, like image uploads, from those chats to train our model. if you have Improve the model for everyone enabled.
To opt out of training our models entirely, please disable Improve the model for everyone.
Is my choice to share audio or video for model training a device-specific setting?
Your choice to share audio or video from voice chats for model training is tied to your account.
If you choose to share, then that choice will also apply to other devices where you are logged in.
You can stop sharing audio or video through your Data Control settings in ChatGPT.
help.openai.com /en/articles/8400625-voice-mode-faq
Voice Mode FAQ | OpenAI Help Center
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