OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode with vision for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, letting them share their screen or videos for ChatGPT to respond to
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 6 Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police : ChatGPT has a Santa voice to ring in the holiday cheer Shaurya Shubham / Moneycontrol : ChatGPT gets screen sharing feature: What is it, how it works and other details Brad Chacos / PCWorld : Ho ho ho! ChatGPT rolls out a Santa voice for Christmas season Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : ChatGPT now can see what you see and explain it in Santa's voice Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : ChatGPT sees the world Poulami Saha / Financial Express : OpenAI unveils Advanced Voice Mode: ChatGPT now sees and understands in real time Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog : OpenAI adds Santa voice along with video support to ChatGPT Voice Mode Chris McKay / Maginative : ChatGPT Can Now Watch Videos and Has a Santa Mode Eric Hal Schwartz / TechRadar : ChatGPT adds eyes to its voice with new screen and video sharing feature Minh Le / Tech in Asia : OpenAI adds video, screenshare features to ChatGPT Dave Parrack / MakeUseOf : You Can Now Chat to Santa Using ChatGPT's Voice Mode Bill Smith / TechEBlog : Santa Joins ChatGPT's Voice Mode, Can Speak Like Gen Z Britney Nguyen / Quartz : OpenAI is giving ChatGPT's voice feature the ability to ‘see’ Jorge A. Aguilar / How-To Geek : You Can Now Share Videos and Screens With the ChatGPT App Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : ChatGPT Has Eyes Now With Live Video Support in Advanced Voice Mode Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI's ChatGPT Will Respond to Video Feeds in Real Time Bluesky: Neal Ungerleider / @nealunger : Oh this is interesting. X: @openai : Just in time for the holidays, video and screensharing are now starting to roll out in Advanced Voice in the ChatGPT mobile app. [video] @openai : All Team and most Plus & Pro users should have access within the next week in the latest version of the ChatGPT mobile app. We'll get the feature to Plus & Pro users in the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, & Liechtenstein as soon as we can. Enterprise & Edu users will have [video] Steven Heidel / @stevenheidel : chatgpt now supports live video input! we're rolling this out to iOS and Android over the next few days [image] Greg Brockman / @gdb : chatgpt voice now supports live video and screensharing [image] @shuchaobi : Today we started rolling out video, screensharing, image uploads and Santa Voice in ChatGPT Advanced Voice. This is an important step forward my team drove on the research side toward building a truly multimodal interface to AI. ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak in real-time. Kevin Weil / @kevinweil : Day 6 🎁: video in advanced voice mode! Now you can add live video and screensharing to your conversations with ChatGPT. Also: Santa mode 🎅🏼, which has been endlessly fun to test with my kids. Try it by clicking the ❄️ or by choosing Santa in the voice selector. Both rolling Alice Evans / @_alice_evans : I often use Claude voice input. I record my thoughts while I'm out walking, then Claude tidies it up very neatly! And I can save the text online It's like a wonderful 1970s secretary, fitting the budget of a British academic on a shoestring 🙃 Ed Krassenstein / @edkrassen : This is really crazy. Today @OpenAI announced that ChatGPT's advanced voice mode can process live videos and screen-shares and respond to them in real time. Check it out. You can literally video-chat with your AI and have it see you and/or what you are seeing. This tech is [video] Sam Altman / @sama : video input now rolling out for chatgpt voice mode including screenshare! (and santa mode for a little holiday treat) Caroline McCloskey / @caromcc_ : and on the 6th day of @OpenAI shipmas... chatgpt gives a pour-over lesson ☕️ you can now share your phone camera and screen live with chatgpt. @ChatGPTapp can see what you're looking at and you can ask it for help! and...santa mode is now live! 🎅 #shipmas #Santa [image]
Context & Ripple Effects
OpenAI had already expanded ChatGPT beyond text with voice prompts and image uploads for paid tiers, then began a limited Advanced Voice Mode rollout to Plus users. This release combines those interaction paths into a live, multimodal session.
The move matters because it makes ChatGPT more usable while a person is looking at a device or camera feed, rather than requiring them to translate what they see into a text prompt.
First-order effects
- Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers gain screen-sharing and video input in Advanced Voice Mode, allowing ChatGPT to respond to visual context during a spoken interaction.
- OpenAI further differentiates its paid ChatGPT plans by packaging a richer real-time interface alongside the existing voice experience.
Second-order effects
- Competing consumer AI assistants face pressure to match a single session that accepts speech, screens, and live visual input rather than treating each as a separate feature.
- The feature can shift more troubleshooting, explanation, and on-screen guidance into ChatGPT conversations, increasing the value of keeping the assistant open during device-based tasks.
Third-order effects
- If multimodal interaction becomes a standard paid-assistant capability, the competitive surface moves from model responses alone toward persistent, context-aware interfaces that sit alongside everyday work and device use.
- The expanded access to screens and cameras also makes user trust, permissions, and clear boundaries around what an assistant can observe more central to product differentiation.
The trend: This is part of the shift from chatbots as text boxes to multimodal assistants that operate on the user’s immediate work surface.