ChatGPT Voice is the most powerful AI feature of 2026. Here’s how to master it
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Chat GPT voice is the single most
important underrated feature in AI lab
has released this year. It has
transformed how I work more than any
other AI tool I've used. I now work way
less and barely at my desk anymore, but
still get significantly more work done.
In this video, I'll cover eight advanced
tips for getting the absolute most out
of Chat GPT voice. If you stick with me
until the end of this video, I
personally guarantee you you're going to
get way more work done in way less time
and free yourself to do whatever the
heck you want during the day. You want
to go outside, you can do whatever you
want and you'll still get amazing work
done. Now, let's lock in and get into
it. So, let's quickly start off why Chat
GPT voice is so special, so much
different than Claude's voice mode, and
really just way more than a dictation
tool like Whisper Flow or other tools.
Here are the five biggest reasons why it
is completely differentiated from any
other tool out there. And by the way,
before I get into this, I was the
biggest like AI voice hater in the
entire world before this. If you ever
watched any of my live streams, I talked
about how much I hate talking to AI. I
just like typing much more. This Chat
GPT voice completely changed my mind. I
am 100% voice pilled now, and here is
why. Number one, and this is probably
the most powerful reason of them all, it
can spin up new threads and agents.
Right after this, I'm going to show you
like a demo of my typical day-to-day
workflow of using Chat GPT voice, how I
talk with it, what it does. But the most
powerful thing it can do is actually
orchestrate other AI agents. When you
use any other AI voice technology, it's
just in its one thread. You tell it to
do something, it does it in that thread.
It doesn't work with any other AI
agents. It kind of works in its own
little sandbox mode, right? But Chat GPT
voice, you can say, "Here are my five
tasks for the day. Spin up a thread for
each one of those tasks, and then
monitor those threads and agents. This
allows you to do way more at once. It
allows you to use the correct models for
the correct tasks. It just allows you to
get way more done in way less work. With
Claude voice or any other AI voice
agents out there, it's only in its
sandbox. It could only do one thing at a
time. So, you got to sit there, tell
what to do, listen on what how it went,
and then you do things one by one by
one. But, with ChatGPT voice, and this
might seem subtle, but it's so, so
powerful, it does all its work in other
threads. So, you just Here's my list of
things to do, go spin up a thread for
each thing, and it goes spins them up
and say, "Okay, I'll let you know when
they're all done." That is really,
really amazing. It can also see across
other threads and devices. Because
ChatGPT has such great remote
functionality and is across all your
devices, you can go to ChatGPT voice and
spin this up on this device, go over
here on this device, and do that. It
basically becomes like an orchestrator
of your entire digital life, which is
so, so powerful. Again, the subtle
difference there is Claude voice, the
other voice tools, they're in their
little sandbox. If I go to Claude voice
and I say, "Hey, can you check out
what's going on in my email?" If you go
to Claude and you say something like,
"Hey, go check out what we're doing this
other thread, what work we have done
there, and then check out what we're
doing in the email over here, and check
out what we have spun up on my phone
over there." It can't do that. It just
has visibility into its one thread. So,
again, much like number one, this turns
the voice mode much more into like a
chief of staff orchestrator, where you
can use it as a single point of contact
to get work done across everywhere you
work. Again, no other AI voice
technology comes anywhere close to this.
And because it works across devices and
has amazing remote functionality, this
unlocks my favorite AI workflow of all
time, which is the go outside and walk
around with an AirPod in on your phone
and just talk to voice and get work
done, which we'll cover a much more
later in this video. Full computer use
and browser use, so you can be on the go
on your phone in full self-drive mode on
your Tesla or be walking around outside
and say, "Hey, go on my computer, build
this deck, then send an email out with
the deck in it." Then you mute, you walk
around, and it gets done by itself on
your computer, which is really really
amazing. So, full control over your
computers and your browsers. And just
from a tech perspective, from like a
pure voice model perspective, it's the
most advanced voice model. You can
interrupt it, it can interrupt you. It
stops to listen what you say, and it
understands pauses in your voice really
well. It's just the most pleasant to
talk to voice model. And then from a
harness perspective, it's just very
highly usable. If you're on your
computer, you can background it and just
start talking whenever you want, and
it'll listen, it'll wait for you and
listen. If you're on the go, you can
lock your phone, put it in your pocket,
just start talking whenever you want. It
just very naturally blends into your
life, which makes it so nice and
pleasant to use. It really makes you
think this is probably the future of AI.
But we'll get more into that in a little
bit as well. So, that's the basics. This
is what we covered in the last week's
video, but let's get more into the
advanced functionality now. How to use
it, how to get the most out of it. If
you master these eight tips I'm about to
get you, your entire workflow with AI is
going to completely transform. So, let's
first go into a basic workflow. I'm
going to show you live how I use ChatGPT
voice when I wake up in the morning.
Everything I'm about to show you I
actually do on the go because again, the
remote functionality is so amazing. You
can do this on your iPhone on the go
walking around, and it's all happen on
your desktop computer. But for the sake
of demonstration, I'm going to do this
on here on my Mac Studio, so you can see
what it's like. Just cuz I don't feel
like taking a camera with me outside, to
quite honest with you. I don't want to
be one of those dorky guys filming
themselves walking around. So, we're
going to do it here on my desktop. But,
this is my basic day-to-day workflow.
Once we go through this, just so you get
a taste of how this works, the different
mindset and strategies with using this
new technology, then I'll go into the
eight advanced tips that kind of tie
into what I'm about to show you. So, I
wake up in the morning, I open up the
ChatGPT desktop app, and then I hit this
little button down here. You see this?
There's two microphone buttons which a
little bit confusing, but that's fine.
You have your dictate button, which is
just the button you hit, you talk, then
it puts the text in there. But, this is
the ChatGPT voice button. So, what I'm
going to do is I'm going to hit that,
it's going to open up our voice session.
Then, I'm just going to show you how I
start my day and how I work with ChatGPT
voice.
Hey there, ChatGPT voice. Can you give
me a run-down on all the work we did
yesterday, where we stand, and what we
should do for next steps?
>> Let me pull up yesterday's work.
>> So, I mute my microphone right here
because if you start talking
>> Personal OS is live on the web with your
two read-only calendars, Henry, tasks,
and thumbnail campus.
You can move to previous day and next
day.
>> of all the work I did yesterday across
ChatGPT and all my projects.
>> And the desktop app just wraps that web
version. Also, the VCA build lab is live
on the
>> across all my different projects, it can
give me a run-down of my entire digital
life like this. No other voice tool can
do this.
>> Next steps, try the dashboard in normal
use.
Add your chosen VCA members to the
private build lab. Run the eight member
pilot. And fix and package the desktop
build only when you actually want to
distribute a native version.
>> It's giving me nice recommendations for
next steps. This is something I'd love
to do, ask it what it recommends we
should do next. All right, now let's go
back in and give it feedback on our
status and what we want to do next. All
right, that sounds great for Personal
OS. Can we go in and make sure that we
have our Henry Open Claw agent actually
attached in there, not just a general
AI? Can you spin up a new thread to get
that done? For the school OS, can you go
in and make sure and and actually build
a plan around what this would look like
if I add a second DJ X Spark to
uh the Buzz Lab? And then for the actual
build build lab itself, can you spin up
a new thread that comes up with an
outline for all the things the members
can do inside the Buzz Build Lab? Okay.
>> I'll sort those three requests.
>> So, I got a rundown of what we did
yesterday. I got a bunch of
recommendations on what we can do next,
and I said, "Okay, let's spin up a
thread to do this, spin up a thread to
do this, spin up a thread to do that."
And now what ChatGPT Voice is going to
do is actually create brand new threads
inside of Codex here to get all this
work done one by one. So, on other voice
tools, right, you would have to just
kind of sit there, do things one at a
time, one at a time, one at a time cuz
it doesn't have kind of those
orchestration
functionality and powers, but ChatGPT
Voice cuz it's more of an orchestrator
rather than a worker can spin up brand
new agents left and right. I spent about
what, 45 seconds giving commands, and
now I'm sitting here, it's doing the
work, it's spinning up new threads, and
in a few minutes all this work will be
done just with a couple of voice
prompts. One of the key terms you need
to know when using ChatGPT Voice is,
"Okay, spin up a new thread for that."
Because ChatGPT Voice uses, I think,
Terra as its core model, which is one of
its lighter models, you want it to spin
up threads because the threads use 56
Soul, which is, of course, their best
model. So, the threads use the best
model, get the the best work done, and
then you reserve the voice just to be
the orchestrator and delegate the work
to the smarter models. And you can see
this
>> Free test are
attaching the real Henry Open Cloth
agent to Personal OS, planning the
second DGX Spark for Buzz Lab, and
outlining what members can do inside the
Buzz Build Lab.
>> And there you go, there's the new chats.
You can see some of the new chats over
here on the left. It is getting to work.
And just like that, like you can imagine
you wake up in the morning, you put in
your AirPods, you go outside, you have
the sun hits your face, you feel great,
you feel like a million dollars, and you
say, "Hey, what's the status of work?"
Okay, that sounds great. Spin up new
threads, do all of that. And boom,
you're a minute into your day, you're
outside, you're feeling the warmth, and
you already got work kicked off across
everything you're doing. So, this is my
basic morning workflow. There's way more
to this. Now, let's do a deep dive on
each of the little tips and tricks you
can you can use to get the absolute most
out of Chat GPT voice. So, because Chat
GPT's remote functionality is so good,
and all your devices can communicate
with each other so well, you want to set
up your system like this, where you have
an always-on desktop computer that all
your projects get done in, right? When
you do voice, and you say, "Hey, do this
work, do that work," it all takes place
on your always-on desktop computer, and
then all your other devices, your
iPhone, your iPad, your laptops, any
other devices you have, remote into that
main device. This makes it so that all
your projects, all the code you write,
all the documents you build, all the
PowerPoints you build, all the emails
you send, all are nicely organized in
one single place. If you weren't using
remote, and you weren't using this
setup, you might be on your iPhone
giving it commands, on your desktop
giving commands, and then all the code
and all the projects will live in
different areas. As you can see, my
voice is doing a bunch of things in the
background while I go through this,
which is really, really amazing. Anyway,
if you do it this way, where it's all
remoting into one place, everything will
be nicely organized. So, you can ensure
when you go outside and you're on
ChatGPT voice on your phone, or if
you're on your iPad by the pool, or if
you're on your laptop on a plane 20,000
ft in the air, you can ensure that one
ChatGPT is always available because it's
on your 24/7 desktop computer, but two,
it's also nicely organized where
everything's in one place. So, this is
the setup you want. It's really easy to
set up. All you need to do is go into
your settings. So, if you go settings,
then you go down to connections here,
and then you go on your 24/7 computer
and go control this Mac, then add all
your other devices. You'll be good to
go. They'll all be controlling your one
desktop. And now, this doesn't need to
be a Mac Studio. It doesn't need to
actually even be a desktop computer.
Right? It could be, you know, a laptop
that you always have plugged in, that
you always have open on your desk.
Obviously, this is much easier if you
have a Mac Studio. This also works in
Mac Mini or any PC device you have, but
you just want to make sure you have some
sort of device that is always on, always
open, so that you can control it from
anywhere in the world. Number two tip, I
actually talked about towards the
beginning during the demo, and that is
the orchestration model. You want to
think about ChatGPT voice as an
orchestrator cuz this is really where
its strength is. You never want it to do
work itself. You never want to be like,
"Hey, voice, go and do this for me." or
"Go and do that for me." Every time you
give it a command, you want to say,
"Hey, spin up a thread to do this work.
Spin up a new agent or task to do this
work." You never want it to do the work
itself. One, because the voice agent
burns more tokens than other agents out
there because there's a lot more tokens
that go into that kind of the voice
functionality itself, but two, it's
burning more tokens and it's a dumber
model. So, the voice model itself is
incredible, but the actual kind of logic
model behind it that's doing work is not
as good. As I said before, it's either
Tara or Luna. It is not Soul, which is
their strongest model. So, it's going to
do better work when it delegates it to
other agents. So, any work you do, you
want to be like, "Hey, spin up a new
thread, do this yourself." I'd actually
recommend using the medium level
thinking this because this burns a lot
of tokens. I recommend using medium. I
actually think 5.6 Soul medium is better
than like 5.6 Soul max or ultra or
whatever. I think the higher thinking
versions of 5.6 Soul actually think too
much, overthink things. I think medium's
kind of the sweet spot. So, what I would
do is when you're talking to voice, say,
"Hey, spin up a new thread, make sure
you're using 5.6 Soul medium thinking."
And if you want to even say, "Hey, by
the way, do this for all threads you
spin up." So, you don't have to say that
every single time. But you want to again
think of it as an orchestrator. All the
work you're doing, you're going out on
the go, you're at your computer,
whatever you're doing, always make sure
the work it does is in separate threads.
Tip number three, and this is really
great for actually kind of unlocking
this new workflow I use, which is being
at my desktop computer way less and
being on my iPhone out in the world,
walking around, not looking at a screen,
and that is planning ahead of time. So,
I I I showed you kind of my morning
workflow. Typically, I do that outside
in the sun, on the go, walking around.
But when you're walking around, it's
kind of really easy to forget what you
wanted to do that day. There's a lot of
stimulation outside. So, what I really
like to do is wake up in the morning,
don't look at your phone, don't look at
your computer, don't look at anything
else. Take out a piece of paper, maybe a
small posted note like this, then write
down what you want to get done with
ChatGPT voice that day. So, you write
down your tasks by hand on this piece of
paper. You put You fold it up. You put
it in your pocket, you put your iPhone
your pocket, you put your an airpod in,
two airpods in, whatever you want to do,
you go outside, and then you start
talking to chat GPT voice, and you just
run down here's all the tasks I want to
do this day. It then spins up the
threads and starts getting that work
done. Having the piece of paper on you
with the tasks you want to do makes it a
lot easier to make sure you're getting
all the work done that day you need to
get done. And you can kind of pull it
out and reference it as you go on kind
of like your main threads, your main
tasks you want to get done. When you're
walking around, you don't have any
screens, you're not looking at anything,
it's kind of easy to forget everything
you're working on, everything you want
to do. This just kind of having a piece
of paper that grounds you with the tasks
you need to do that day makes it a lot
easier to kind of talk to voice and make
sure you get those things done. And you
don't have to stare at a screen. One of
the beautiful parts about this kind of
new technology is you're not looking at
screens anymore. Right, screens are so
toxic and poisonous. What I absolutely
love about voice, why I am so passionate
about it, why I tweet about it all the
time, why I make videos, I'm not
sponsored by OpenAI, they're not paying
me anything, they barely talk to me,
right? I'm just so passionate about this
feature because it allows me to not look
at screens as much. If you're anything
like me, you're absolutely addicted to
looking at screens, you're absolutely
addicted to social media. This feature
helps me break out of it. Being able to
write down the tasks you need to do
makes that a lot easier. Tip number four
is utilizing a summary note. And what I
mean by that is when I start my work for
the day, I get on the go, I put the
airpod in, I'm talking, I always start
with hey by the way voice, make sure you
create a new Apple note, open it up on
my desktop, and everything we do today,
make sure you write the summary of what
we're doing
in this Apple note. You're going to get
literally 10 times more done using chat
GPT voice on the go than you've ever
done before. And the issue is is like
you can go in a lot of different
directions, get a ton done, and then
when you get back to your computer, kind
of not realize everything you did, not
know where to follow up, not know what
to test, not know what to check out. And
so what you really want it to do is you
want it to actually create an Apple note
on your computer that gives a rundown of
everything you do with next steps, so
that when you've gone for your walk, I
get my 2-hour walk in in the morning, I
get 10,000 steps in, 5 miles, I'm back
to my computer by like 11:00 a.m., and
then I'm able to sit down and see a
rundown of absolutely everything we got
done. Then I can do any follow-up I need
at my computer. Without this note being
created, it's really easy to forget
little tiny details because it's so easy
when you're in voice to be like, "Oh
yeah, spin up a thread to do that, spin
up a thread to do that, spin up a thread
to do that." And then forget all the
things you did. Having voice make a note
and then open it up on your computer,
which you can do because it has computer
control, just makes it a lot easier for
you to track everything you did. I also
just like this because if you're
anything like me, you just always feel
like you haven't hit your max potential
for productivity. You always feel like
you haven't got done as much as you
wanted to do. This kind of just allows
me to reflect on all the work I did that
day and actually like, "Wait a second, I
actually did get a lot done that day."
Which makes you just feel very good. So,
I really like this tip. I've been using
it every day. This will just help you
keep track of everything you do and also
just reflect on how productive you've
been. So, make sure you ask voice to
create this note and pop it up on your
computer, so that when you get home, you
can check out everything you got done.
And speaking of that, this one dovetails
off that a little bit, too. One of the
most powerful parts about the chat GPT
desktop app is its computer use and its
browser use. Chat GPT, I think, is the
best agent harness on planet Earth right
now because its computer use and browser
use is so good. Basically, anything a
human being can do in a browser on a
computer, Chat GPT, and hence Chat GPT
voice, can do that as well. It's not
always perfect at determining the best
time to use computer use and browser
use. So, you want to make sure as you're
giving commands to Chat GPT voice, and
you're telling it different things to
do, make sure to say, "Hey, use computer
use for that. Use browser use for that."
Just a couple examples. That Apple note
I just showed you a second ago, I always
make sure to say, "Hey, use computer use
to pop open that note, and write the
note in there." Then, it'll know to pop
it open on your computer. For browser
use, if I have things where it needs to
log in or use a logged-in session or
things like that, I'll say, "Use browser
use. Pop open uh one of our Google
Chrome sessions, and do that on my
account." For instance, I needed to like
export all my email newsletter
subscribers yesterday. I said, "Use
browser use to pop open the newsletter
uh platform to get the CSV of all the
subscribers." By the way, newsletter
link down below, you'll love it. It's
best. Two emails a week. It's
incredible. Uh but, that's really
important as well. Make sure you're
using the terms browser use, computer
use when you want it to do things on
your computer and browser. The next
three tips are more desktop tips for
Chat GPT voice. So, a lot of things we
discussed before this were like mobile
tips cuz my one of my favorite workflows
is just being outside, walking around. I
have a weighted vest I bought off
Amazon. It's like a 20-lb vest. It was
like 30 bucks. I walk around with the
weighted vest, getting slim, getting
lean, looking good, right? But, these
next tips are for desktop Chat GPT
voice, which is really, really powerful
as well. This isn't really a tip, but
this is just kind of a setup of
everything. I always have it open when
I'm sitting at my computer. So, I'll
always have this widget open, and then
I'll go to different browsers, go to
different apps on my computer, and this
will always be open, and I can just
start talking anytime I want. But, when
I open the ChatGPT app again, I really
like this new view they created. If you
click this alert icon up here, this is
the new alert mode, and I like this so
much more because it it orders your
threads more like an inbox, right? More
like an email inbox, where it shows you
all the newest things that got done at
the top. When you're in the normal mode,
it's just a full list of all your
projects, all the tasks, which is a lot.
It gets overwhelming. But, when you're
in the alert mode, I guess they call it
activity view, it shows it like an
inbox, where you can see the last things
it did and what needs your attention,
right? I can see in here, this needs my
approval for something, so I can click
on it. I can go in here. I'll say allow,
allow, and it goes and it does that work
for me. This view, I find it helps me
get way more done when I'm sitting at my
computer cuz I can always see what needs
my attention cuz it's always at the top
rather than drowned in a huge list of
tasks and threads, which is really,
really great. So, anytime you're at your
desktop in the ChatGPT app, always make
sure you're in this new activity view as
you're getting work done, just so you
can see what needs your attention. Tip
number seven forces you to use voice way
more, right? It's easy to kind of forget
to use voice. You're sitting at your
computer, you're doing other things.
Always make sure this is up. When when
you sit down at your computer in the
morning, open up ChatGPT voice, hit that
button in the bottom right I showed you,
and then you can have it up, you can
unmute your mic, and what I like to do
is I'll be doing work, I'll be hanging
out, and anytime I need something, I
just start talking out loud, right? I
just start talking out loud. If you have
it up all day, as new tasks come to your
brain, you can just say them out loud,
and voice will go and start to work on
it. So, one thing I try to remember to
do every time I sit down at my work
computer is open up ChatGPT voice, have
it open, mute if I need to if I need to
talk to someone else from recording a
video like this, and then unmute and
just talk out loud anytime you need
something done. This is actually my
prediction for what I think the Jony Ive
partnership is going to come up with is
like some sort of microphone or desk
device that's always listening that you
can just talk to anytime you want
anywhere in your house or apartment, and
it starts spinning up threads to get
things done. This kind of idea of
ambient AI is really, really incredible
because it's just intelligence that's
always there for you anytime you need
it. And having the voice up 24/7 allows
that kind of use case of ambient AI
where you can just say things and then
things get done. So, I really like that.
And the last tip, tip number eight, I
think is a really critical one, is you
should be asking more questions than
commands you give. And what I mean by
that is ChatGPT voice is unbelievably
smart. And so, what I like to do is do
more of this kind of exploration
exercise with it instead of just sitting
there giving a command after command
after command after command. I try to
actually ask more questions than give
commands. What I mean by that is I'll be
like, "Hey, what do you think we should
do here next? What do you think about
the work we did there? What do you think
is the best next step? How do we get
closer to our overall goal? How do we
make this better?" And what I'm doing is
I'm actually reverse prompting the voice
model and I'm saying, "Hey, what do you
think we should do next?" And what I
actually find is it does a lot better
job of coming up with what we should do
next than I do. And I actually find it
gets way more work done. It also just
lightens your cognitive load a ton. And
what I mean by that is if you always
have to think about what you want to do
next, you're constantly thinking, your
brain's constantly going. But if you're
walking around outside, you're feeling
the sun, you're like, "Hey, what should
you do next?" gives you a bunch of items
and options, and you know, "Okay, just
do that." It just lightens your
cognitive load, so you don't have to
think as hard. It just feels lighter,
it's more enjoyable, it's more fun, it's
more free-flowing and creative. So, my
eighth and very important tip is ask
more questions than commands you give.
You'll get more done, it'll be more fun,
and you'll feel more free, you'll feel
more creative. You'll just love the
workflow even more. That is ChatGPT
voice. I highly, highly, highly
challenge you today or tomorrow, wake
up, do what I show you, put in an
AirPod, go outside, walk around, open up
voice mode, get tasks done, get back to
your computer, and just see how much you
got done without sitting at your
computer looking at a screen the entire
day. This has completely changed my
life. Again, this isn't sponsored by
OpenAI or anything like that. I just
love this feature so much. I hope this
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This video highlights the transformative power of ChatGPT Voice, presenting it as an essential tool for orchestrating productivity rather than just a dictation aid. The narrator explains how he uses it to delegate tasks to AI agents across different threads, enabling him to work effectively while on the go and spending less time staring at screens. He provides eight practical tips, including setting up an always-on desktop for remote access, utilizing the activity view, and focusing on collaboration through questioning, to maximize efficiency and reduce cognitive load.
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