OpenAI wants you to 'blurt out your thoughts' to your phone

In July, OpenAI's president, Greg Brockman, revealed an AI audio model that can listen and speak simultaneously.

Bloomberg/Getty Images OpenAI boosts ChatGPT's voice mode on mobile as the competition over personal agents heats up.

The new release connects OpenAI's voice model to its agentic text models, which can handle tasks.

OpenAI has yet to release a direct competitor to viral AI assistants like Instinct and Meta's Muse.

OpenAI is pushing further into the hotly contested market for personal agents — this time with voice.

The company is adding its most advanced voice system to ChatGPT's website and mobile app on Wednesday.

OpenAI's release allows users to speak to delegate single and recurring tasks that require multiple steps, a browser, and disparate apps.

The company has been rolling out launches ahead of its big OpenAI DevDay event next week.

OpenAI's product lead for ChatGPT voice, Atty Eleti, gave a demo to Business Insider.

Only speaking with the app, he had the tool analyze his DoorDash spending, pay $5 to book a pickleball court, and reorganize his calendar.

"In the future, we really imagine people using voice as the primary modality to interact with AI," Eleti said, "and that's kind of our North Star that we're working towards." Personal AI assistants like Instinct and Meta's Muse are having a moment in Silicon Valley as the industry peddles apps tailored to handle cumbersome internet tasks.

OpenAI has many of these capabilities in ChatGPT, though it hasn't yet released a narrower offshoot.

This voice tool is a play for the AI-assistant buzz.

In the short term, the improvements make it easier for people to delegate work to ChatGPT by speaking while they're on the go.