ChatGPT’s New Changes are MIND BLOWING! (New Extension, Voice Mode & More)

Author: Rob The AI Guy · Watch on YouTube

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Original language: English

Original video: ChatGPT’s New Changes are MIND BLOWING! (New Extension, Voice Mode & More) · Channel: Rob The AI Guy · 10:46 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, Prompt and context engineering, AI developer tools, AI models

Summary

The video tours a range of ChatGPT updates, including voice features, model choices, plugins, and settings that can enable voice and browser tasks. It also demonstrates the Chrome extension’s access to memory, tabs, and plugins, as well as the desktop app’s voice and computer-use options. The presenter promotes My Prompt Buddy as a tool for optimizing and saving prompts. He concludes by recommending the desktop app for users who want more customization and features than the web experience.

Key points

The presenter says ChatGPT voice can use connected services and create documents, decks, websites, and spreadsheets by voice.
Voice settings include Live, Advanced, and Standard models; the presenter recommends Live for most users.
The video highlights settings for voice, web search, canvas, library search, connector search, and cloud browser access.
The model selector includes GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Soul, and GPT-6 Luna; the presenter recommends Astra for agentic tasks and Soul for other tasks.
Users can browse plugins, create or upload plugins, and enable developer mode to add custom plugins or apps.
The Chrome extension can access memory, use plugins, work with browser tabs, and pursue goals, according to the demonstration.
The presenter promotes My Prompt Buddy for optimizing prompts and saving reusable prompts, and says it works with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
The desktop app offers additional voice, computer-use, browser-control, coding, chat-history, and customization options.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Voice mode and setup	The presenter introduces ChatGPT voice updates and walks through model and settings choices for enabling voice, search, and cloud browser capabilities.
02:10	Models, plugins, and settings	The video covers the model selector, plugin discovery and creation, developer mode, plugin use, and other recommended settings.
05:25	Prompt optimization and Chrome extension	The presenter demonstrates My Prompt Buddy for improving and saving prompts, then shows how the Chrome extension can use memory, plugins, and browser tabs.
08:04	Desktop app features and customization	The video explores computer-use permissions, voice options, desktop-only features, browser control, and customization, and recommends trying the desktop app.

Quotes

using just your voice, you can actually get this to create documents, decks, websites, and spreadsheets just by talking — 00:33

For most of you, you’re going to want to just stick with live. — 01:04

the prompt that you give it drastically changes the output you get. — 05:25

you might be missing out on tons of different features — 09:43

I think it’s a way better experience. — 10:46

Concepts and entities

ChatGPT, OpenAI, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Soul, GPT-6 Luna, My Prompt Buddy, VidIQ, MCP, ChatGPT Chrome extension

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 Chat GPT just launched a bunch of brand new features that change everything. They have a brand new voice mode, they released a bunch of brand new upgrades to their Chrome extension, and so much more. By the end of this video, you’re going to know what all these changes are and how you could use them to automate your work. Update number one that we need to cover is now Chat GPT voice has a huge upgrade. So, OpenAI says that voice can now use plugins like your email, your calendar, your Slack. It can run on GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Soul, GPT-6 Luna. Works inside of Chat GPT work on web and on mobile. In addition to that,

00:33 using just your voice, you can actually get this to create documents, decks, websites, and spreadsheets just by talking or tackle complex browser tasks simply just using your voice. The way that you’re going to use this, it works on a web or it works on mobile. You’re going to come over into a new chat. You are going to click on work right here and we’re now going to see that we could click start voice right here and then we automatically are able to do all of these different things. We could get this to actually create all these different outputs and we could see that it can access all of your sources. Now,

01:04 for this to really be as powerful as humanly possible, you want to make sure that you are coming over into your settings and we need to make sure you have a ton of settings enabled. So, if we come over to voice right here, you want to know first and foremost that when it comes to model, there are three different models. Also, you could change the voice if you want to. Personally, I don’t do that. So, if we come over to model, we have live, we have advanced, and then we also have standard. These are all going to be completely different models. They’re all going to use your usage differently. So, I would choose accordingly. For most of you, you’re going to want to just stick with live.

01:37 In addition to that, if we come over into personalization right here, scroll all the way down and we see advanced right here, we could see that you have to make sure Chat GPT voice is going to be enabled. In addition to that, you also want to make sure web search is enabled, canvas is enabled, library search is enabled, and connector search is enabled because if you don’t have all these different advanced settings enabled, Voice isn’t actually going to be able to do any of the things that I just showed you. In addition to that, you want to make sure that cloud browser over here, that you actually have this

02:10 enabled and this turned on also, because otherwise, GPT work won’t actually be able to use the cloud browser. Now, if we come over here into new chat, another thing that I did want to show you now, is if we come over into this model selector, we now have GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Soul, GPT-6 Luna. So, how I would actually recommend that you have this set up is GPT-6 Astra, whenever you’re doing something agentic, you should be using that. If you are not doing something agentic, I would recommend running GPT-6 Soul. To be completely

02:42 honest, GPT-6 Luna, I think, is really just something that people should be interacting with via the API. I don’t think it’s actually something you should be using from inside of Work. In addition to that, if we click on plugins right here, these now look completely different. We could see that there are tons of new plugins right here. They show new and noteworthy, for small businesses, productivity, creativity, developer tools. I would suggest you go through and actually set all of yours up. In addition to that, now if you click on plus, you can do three different things. You can actually create your own plugin, and if we click on this, this will actually use the

03:15 plugin creator, and you can describe exactly what kind of plugin you want to create, and ChatGPT will help you do that. In addition to that, if we come back over here, we can see upload plugin. If we click on this, you can actually drag and drop your plugin in here, and we can see that there are three different file types that are actually going to be supported. So, when you create your own custom plugin, that is how you actually add it. And if you click on create app right here, this is where you can actually use custom MCP. Now, in order to actually use this, you want to make sure that you come back over here, you come over into settings right here. When you come over to

03:48 plugins, you want to scroll all the way down, you want to click on developer mode right here, and you want to make sure that developer mode right here is actually going to be turned on. If you do not have that turned on, essentially, you’re not going to be able to add in your own custom plugins. In addition to that, you can manage all of your installed plugins from right here and ChatGPT has now made it way easier for you to actually be able to call plugins because now when you’re inside of here, you could click into this, you could connect different plugins, you could see all your plugins. Let’s say we want to use the VidIQ one, we simply just click on that and now automatically the VidIQ

04:21 plugin is actually going to be called. If you notice something else about my ChatGPT, I get all these different ideas down here for different things that I should do. You know why I get those? Because when I come into my settings over here, we can actually see that under notifications, I have notifications on for all of these different things. Personalized tips is the one that I find incredibly helpful, so I would suggest that you have that on. In addition to that, if we come under general right here, you want to make sure do you have enable ultra effort turned on and enable diction

04:53 turned on and under personalization, you want fast answers turned on and suggested prompts turned on. If you have all those settings turned on, it’s going to make ChatGPT more powerful. Now, before I get into the rest of the updates, I wanted to make sure that you smash that subscribe button if you want to stay up to date on the latest and greatest changes in AI. I upload videos like this almost every single day and you’re not going to want to miss them. Now, before we get into the rest of those new updates, I did want to share with you something that ChatGPT still can’t do, which is that you still from inside of ChatGPT can’t save prompts that you use over and over again and it

05:25 doesn’t optimize your prompts for you. And one thing that you’re going to notice if you’re using GPT-6 Astra or ChatGPT’s latest models is that the prompt that you give it drastically changes the output you get. That is exactly why I use this My Prompt Buddy Prompt Optimizer right here. This allows you to insert all of your different prompts right here from a standard prompt, reasoning prompt, deep research, AI video, AI image, you could put in your current prompt, your ideal output. As we can see from my history right here, this thing goes through and actually changes your prompt so that you get a professional prompt right here that is much better. In addition to

05:57 that, if we come over into shortcuts right here, this is where you can actually save prompts that you reuse over and over again. So, you can simply just copy, paste it directly in here, and you don’t have to do anything other than that. And you don’t even have to leave ChatGPT in order to do that. It works with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, so it works with all the LLMs. is a no-brainer tool that I use every day. That’s exactly why I strongly suggest you go to the pinned comment below and get started with My Prompt Buddy today. I use this tool literally every single day. It’s compatible with Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude, and it’s going to make your life way easier. And the best

06:29 part about it is if you go to the pinned comment below, you can get started with a free trial today to test it out for yourself. Now, the next update I wanted to show you is how I’m actually using ChatGPT’s Chrome extension. Because we can see if we come over here, I have ChatGPT’s Chrome extension turned on. I could actually come over here. We could use GPT 6 Soul, Luna, and Astra from inside of here. In addition to that, this is actually going to be able to access our memory. And if we click on this plus, we could do tons of things like use our plugins. We could set a goal, and it will actually pursue it and keep doing things until it does it. And if we scroll all the way down here, we

07:02 could see that we could actually access all of our different tabs from inside of here. So, what I like to use this for, because this has my memory, I’m going to say something like, “Please turn this site into a YouTube title, description, tags, and script in my voice.” And all we could do is we could actually click at, and we could come down here. We could choose this tab right here. If we wanted to choose multiple, we would be able to do that also. But this then goes through and reads your article, checks the details.

07:34 It’s actually going to load up my skill about how to actually do things. We can see it’s using my YouTube voice guide right here. It’s searching my memory, and then it’s actually going to be able to go through and do that. And I find this incredibly useful because essentially, now I have ChatGPT anywhere that I am browsing, and I could get it to save things, I could get it to understand things, I could tell it to remember something, and we could see now this one through and actually did this. It gives me the exact title, it gives me the exact description, gives me the tags, and this one through and created

08:04 literally a perfect script in my exact format right here and how I exactly do things. What I typically do is I have a hook, I show off the tool, I have a call to action right here. Then I typically have a few different use cases that I walk through, then my final call to action. It knew this, it understood this, and this is incredible. In addition to that, if we come over here, we could open this inside the app, we could see the app settings, the Chrome computer use settings, and this can also go off on its own and use my computer, which I find pretty cool. If we come over here, we could have it actually ask

08:37 for approval, or we could just give it full access, unrestricted to the internet and any file on our computer. Obviously, only do this if you are using something that you trust and that you would actually allow that to do. Now, the other thing that I did want to show you is I’ve actually pulled up the voice mode from my app right here, and I find this pretty cool. They also have this light mode right here, which you could actually switch to, and it will give you faster replies, or again, we could come over here and actually change this. In addition to that, if we see right here, we could increase the speed of this. So,

09:10 this will actually make this way faster, but it is going to consume your credits a little bit quicker. Another thing that I did want to call out is if you actually come into the settings if you were using the app on your computer, we could see that this is completely different, and there are a bunch of other things. For example, they have all these different other features around computer use, they have all these different features around computer history and what you’ve actually done here, and this will actually train ChatGPT to be smarter whenever you’re actually doing something, which I find pretty awesome. If we come over in a browser, this looks completely

09:43 different. You could let ChatGPT actually control your browser. So, if you are one of those people that only interacts with ChatGPT from the web, you might be missing out on tons of different features that you didn’t know existed when you come into the app on your computer. In addition to that, they have tons of different things for coding. You’ll be able to access all your even archived chats. And you could even customize your ChatGPT way more by customizing things around your user configuration, even model features. Like we could actually come over here and change how many different reasoning

10:15 efforts we actually give ChatGPT or actually allow it to display. And even under pets here, you have way more options. So, we could actually come over here and we could choose to create custom pets. We could create all these other different pets or actually use all these. Again, we could create them, we could customize them, we could change everything about these pets. And if you don’t know what a pet is, it basically is going to keep you up to date on what your ChatGPT is doing even if you are not inside of ChatGPT. And then also from inside of the ChatGPT app right here, if we actually come over here to

10:46 explore, we could click on customize, and we can completely change what our ChatGPT actually looks like based on what we do. So, I use sites all the time, so I’m also going to turn this on. And this basically just gives you way more customization. And like I said, if you are a web-only user of ChatGPT, check out the desktop app because I’m telling you personally, I think it’s a way better experience. Now, if you enjoyed this video and you want to learn about other ChatGPT updates that they’ve recently released, I would strongly suggest you check out this video right here that walks you through all of it. I’ll see you over there.