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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by brap on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:56AM (#44060195)
>Just need a way to talk to ChatGPT anytime. Microphone, speaker and permanent connection to ChatGPT. That’s all you need

So like a smartphone in your pocket connected to an earphone.

The whisper thing is nice. Sounds like a feature for next gen earphones.

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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by newsclues on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:36AM (#44060390)
Don’t bone conduction microphones already exist for this?
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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by scoot on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:23AM (#44060334)
> The whisper thing is nice

Amazon Alexa already has this (albeit you need to whisper loud enough for it to hear), and replies in a whisper. It works with any earbuds, but is kinda useless until Alexa+ (LLM integration) is more widely available; and it would be nice to have it reply in a normal voice when using earbuds.

Silent speech recognition is already a thing [0], so pairing it up with an LLM would be straightforward.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10411110

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