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Bard is getting a voice

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Right now, the only modern chatbot that will speak to you is ChatGPT, and it’s mostly tight-lipped. You can also use voice chat on the ChatGPT mobile app, but there’s no “Hey ChatGPT” feature to call it up automatically.

That may change with Bard. Google says it’s adding Bard to Google Assistant sometime next year. It’s unclear exactly what that will look like, but at a Tuesday press conference, Google shared a video that featured Bard speaking to a user. When smart assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant get a truly capable AI engine, rather than the limited pre-canned responses we get today, it will revolutionize our relationship with AI.