ChatGPT Voice in Work: how to talk your way to a finished document

On 23 September 2026, OpenAI brought ChatGPT Voice into ChatGPT Work and let Voice use plugins and connected apps (OpenAI Help Center, Digit). In practice, that means you can ask it out loud to create a document, a presentation or a spreadsheet, or to use a connected app, instead of typing the request. The update runs on three new GPT-6 models, Astra, Sol and Luna (How2Shout).

Voice in Work runs on web and mobile. The Free and Go plans only get limited Work access in the desktop app, so if you don't see it, check your plan first. To use it, open ChatGPT, choose Work, and select the Voice control to start a live session.

If you end the call before it's finished, the task carries on in text, so you can pick it up at your desk.

Speaking still needs structure

Talking feels looser than typing, which is exactly why it's easy to under-specify a request out loud. Saying "make me a slide deck about our sales numbers" gets you something generic, whether you type it or say it. The fix is the same either way: give the topic, the audience, the length and what should happen afterwards, just said instead of written.

Build a slide outline hands-free

The presentation outline prompt works well as something you say while, say, walking between meetings:

Act as a presentation coach. Build a slide-by-slide outline.

Topic: [TOPIC]
Audience: [WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY CARE ABOUT]
Length: [MINUTES] minutes
Goal: [WHAT SHOULD THEY DECIDE OR DO AFTERWARDS]

For each slide give a headline that states the point, three bullets of supporting content and a suggested visual. Start with a hook and end with one clear ask. Keep it to a maximum of [NUMBER] slides.

Say it in full sentences, in that order, and Work has enough to build the outline as a real presentation rather than asking you to fill in gaps afterwards.

Turn a messy meeting into minutes

This is one of the clearest wins for Voice in Work: right after a meeting, before you forget the details, talk through what happened and let it write up the meeting minutes:

Act as an executive assistant. Turn my meeting notes into clear minutes.

Meeting: [MEETING NAME] on [DATE]
Attendees: [NAMES]
What happened: [SAY IT ROUGHLY, IN ANY ORDER]

Output: a 3-line summary, decisions made, action items as a table with task, owner and deadline, and open questions. If an owner or deadline wasn't mentioned, write "TBC" instead of guessing.

The "TBC" instruction matters more here than in a typed prompt, because a spoken recap is more likely to skip a name or a date by accident.

Get the agenda done before the meeting, not after

The meeting agenda prompt works the same way in reverse, said the day before: state the purpose, who's attending and what needs deciding, and ask for a time-boxed agenda with decisions listed first.

Plan a spreadsheet without opening Sheets

You can also describe a spreadsheet you haven't built yet and get a plan for it, using the spreadsheet dashboard prompt:

I want to build a dashboard in [EXCEL / GOOGLE SHEETS] for [PURPOSE].

My data columns: [COLUMNS]
Questions the dashboard must answer: [QUESTIONS]
Audience: [AUDIENCE]

Recommend the key metrics, the best chart type for each, the layout, and the formulas or pivot tables needed. Keep it simple enough to maintain.

Since Work can create the spreadsheet directly, this doubles as the brief and the build request in one go.

Plan a small project out loud

The small project plan prompt is worth saying whenever a project has more than a couple of moving parts: describe the goal, the finish date, who's working on it and your biggest worry, and ask for a table of tasks, owners and dates you can paste straight into a spreadsheet.

Tips for talking to Voice in Work

• Say the format you want before the content. "I want a table with task, owner and deadline" said first helps more than adding it as an afterthought.
• Ask it to read back the structure before it builds anything long. A quick "tell me the outline first" catches a misunderstanding before it turns into a full document.
• Finish in text for anything fiddly. Exact numbers, spellings of names, or a table with many columns are easier to fix by typing once the first version exists.

Where to go from here

For more ways to get quick, practical output from ChatGPT at work, see our ChatGPT prompts for productivity guide. Browse more ready-made ideas in the productivity prompts collection, or use the prompt builder to put one together for your own task.

Quick checklist

• Say the topic, audience, length and goal, in that order, before anything else.
• State the output format ("a table with...") explicitly.
• Use the "TBC instead of guessing" rule for anything you might have skipped out loud.
• Ask for the structure back before a long document gets built.
• Finish fiddly details, like exact names or numbers, in text.

Prompts to try

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