OpenAI wants you to 'blurt out your thoughts' to your phone
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Pushing richer voice modes and ‘blurt out your thoughts’ UX is OpenAI’s bid to own the capture layer for unstructured intent. If that sticks, product teams should design around a world where users originate tasks as messy voice notes, not structured forms or prompts.
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