OpenAI Head of Product Nick Turley said users should experiment with ChatGPT’s voice mode.

Turley offered chatbot users tips on how to upload documents or make their own GPTs.

OpenAI rolled out its latest AI model, GPT-4o, earlier this year.

Many people use ChatGPT to create recipes or write work emails, but OpenAI’s Head of Product Nick Turley has some handy tips users might want to try.

In a recent episode of the “Hard Fork” podcast, the company’s head of product shared five hacks for ChatGPT users, from using its voice mode to simply speak with the chatbot to creating your own personal GPT that can act as a creative writing coach, develop marketing strategies, or turn photos into illustrations.

Although Turley said these tips weren’t necessarily “rocket science,” users who haven’t thoroughly explored the many added features in the chatbot’s latest model, GPT-4o, might find some useful new tools.

Experiment with voice mode
If you don’t feel like typing, you can now try talking. ChatGPT’s voice feature comes in nine human-like voices developed with professional voice actors, which can be changed in the website’s settings, according to the company.

“It is a completely different way of using ChatGPT,” Turley said. “It’s never existed before. It’s unlike anything else you will have tried in technology.”

Users can speak with the chatbot by voice, with some even saying they’ve been able to have “emotional, personal” conversations. However, others have cautioned against using the AI as a therapist.

All signed-in users can access the standard voice feature, while advanced voice mode, which offers natural, real-time conversations, is currently only available to Plus and Team users.

Ask ChatGPT to remember things
If you’re not a fan of repeating yourself, you can have ChatGPT remember certain things, which the AI will use to improve its responses.

“You don’t have to wait for it to infer it about you,” Turley said. “You can just tell it all the stuff that you want remembered.”

He added that memories can include “your job, it can be your family situation, it can be your preferences on how it should respond to you, it can be your favorite food.”

Users can simply tell ChatGPT to remember something, but they can also turn off the chatbot’s memory at any time or even ask it to forget things. Turley said the added effort will be “worth it” because the chatbot’s memory will “keep getting better.”