ChatGPT Voice can use connected apps now, and it’s kind of a game changer

I only just noticed this today and I’m genuinely surprised how useful it is. As of the September 23 update, ChatGPT Voice can now use the plugins and connected apps available to your account while you’re actually in a Voice conversation. So instead of Voice just being the talking interface, I can now say things like: - “Check my Gmail. Is there anything important?” - “What did that email say?” - “Open my Google Drive diary and add a note.” - “Check something in a connected app while we keep talking.” I tested it this morning. I asked ChatGPT in Voice to check my Gmail, and it actually went through recent mail, picked out the messages that mattered, and summarised them back to me while I was talking to it. It also wrote into a Google Drive document from the same Voice session. That feels like a much bigger change than it sounds. Voice has gone from “talk to ChatGPT hands-free” to “talk to ChatGPT while it can actually work across the apps you’ve connected.” Important caveat: it’s not literally unrestricted access to everything. It can use supported plugins/connected apps that are available to your account, and existing permissions, account settings, approvals and usage limits still apply. Official OpenAI release note: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes OpenAI’s page on connecting/managing app accounts: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001494-connecting-and-managing-app-accounts-in-chatgpt Google app data/permissions FAQ: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10408842-google-app-data-controls-faq I’m curious how many people have actually tried this in Voice yet, because it seems to have landed pretty quietly and it changes the usefulness of Voice quite a lot. Has anyone else tested Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Outlook, etc. from a live Voice conversation yet? submitted by /u/myrandomtips [link] [comments]

Source: r/ChatGPT | 2026-09-24