You can now talk to Bing on your desktop, and even have Bing reply to you. Microsoft has rolled out voice support for search engine chatbots on his Edge for PC, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology. “We know many of you love using dictation to chat on mobile,” the tech giant wrote in its latest Bing preview release notes. This feature is first available in Bing’s AI chatbot for mobile apps. Now also available on desktop. Just tap the microphone icon in your Bing chat box to talk to AI-powered bots.
The feature currently supports English, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin, but Microsoft says support for more languages is on the way. In addition to allowing him to ask Bing questions just by speaking, the chatbot now also supports text-to-speech answers, allowing him to respond to questions with his own voice. “Using voice input, ask Bing Chat, ‘What’s the hardest tongue twister you know?'” Microsoft suggested. And yes you can respond.
As The Verge According to the note, Microsoft introduced voice support for Bing Chat on the desktop shortly after announcing that it would be retiring the standalone Cortana app for Windows that acts as a voice assistant later this year. In an announcement at the time, Microsoft noted that users would continue to have access to “powerful AI-enhanced Windows and Edge productivity features.” In particular, they mentioned Bing Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot, which use artificial intelligence to generate content within their apps.
