OpenAI officially switched on GPT-Live this week, replacing Advanced Voice Mode as the voice system behind ChatGPT. It started rolling out on July 8 and is reaching everyone over the following days — on the iPhone and Android apps, on the ChatGPT.com website, and even in Apple CarPlay.
The biggest practical change: for the first time, ChatGPT can search the web in the middle of a spoken conversation. Before, voice mode could only answer from what it already knew. Now, if you ask something that needs a current answer — a price, an opening time, today's weather — it can look it up and speak the answer back to you, without you having to switch to typing.
You don't need to do anything to get it. Free accounts are automatically switched to GPT-Live-1 mini; Plus and Pro subscribers get the larger GPT-Live-1. If you don't see it yet, updating the ChatGPT app in the App Store or Google Play should bring it in.
For a full step-by-step walkthrough of how voice conversations work, including how to start one and what to say, see our guide on ChatGPT Voice Mode.