OpenAI president Greg Brockman said voice will be the interface of the future, predicting that "this phase of us clicking and typing is a phase" and that "a couple of years from now, no one's goi" [sic]. He spoke at a media roundtable on July 23, the same day OpenAI added a voice model, called ChatGPT Voice, to the ChatGPT desktop app for white-collar workers, with software engineers expected to code by speaking. OpenAI is investing heavily in voice models as a differentiator from rivals Anthropic and Google Gemini. Separately, venture capital firm Menlo Ventures in San Francisco has equipped four desks with microphones for dictation, with some investors "totally voice-pilled" who believe speaking is faster and more productive than typing. They use an AI platform called Wispr Flow, which is in use at 450 of the Fortune 500 companies, with revenue growing at 150% each quarter for the past year, according to Upstarts Media. Wispr is starting a new AI lab staffed with 50 researchers to develop new voice models. Users sometimes feel "a bit awkward" using it in an open floor plan office, and Wispr Flow is optimized for whispering, which the company says is necessary when "sitting just a foot away from someone else" and discussing sensitive information.