Voice Your Prompts: Discover the ChatGPT Desktop App for Marketers

Typing a long prompt can be more work than the task itself. The ChatGPT desktop app gave me a faster way to talk through small problems, get a transcription, and let the model help without first turning every thought into a polished block of text.

Use voice for one-off problems

I tested the audio workflow with a simple guitar question. I was learning the strings and wanted a funny phrase to remember the letters, similar to a school mnemonic. Speaking the request let me explain what I needed naturally, without spending time writing a super prompt for a small task.

That is where voice is useful. It keeps the friction low when the problem is still forming. You can talk through the context, ask for options, and refine the answer in the same conversation. The model can also help turn a rough explanation into something structured.

Specificity still matters

Voice does not remove the need to be clear. The more precise the goal, audience, constraints, and desired format, the more useful the answer becomes. A spoken prompt can still include those details, and the transcript gives you something to edit or reuse afterward.

The desktop app also avoids the extra step I used before: recording elsewhere, transcribing, and copying the text into ChatGPT. Native audio makes the interaction feel closer to a conversation, which is helpful for brainstorming, learning, and quick marketing decisions.

Voice is not a replacement for careful research or review. It is a lower-friction input method that makes it easier to start using AI during ordinary work.

In this episode of the AI-Driven Marketer, Dan Sanchez dives into the newly launched ChatGPT Desktop App, sharing his firsthand experience of how this tool enhances his AI-driven workflow. From its ability to transcribe voice commands to generating creative solutions on the fly, Dan demonstrates its potential to streamline everyday tasks. He also provides a real-world example of how the app's audio features simplify complex prompts, making it an indispensable asset for quick and efficient communication. 

Timestamps:

00:00 Quick demo of simple AI chat function.

05:43 Be specific for precise feedback from AI.

06:25 Record, transcribe, and edit audio easily with OpenAI.

[Music] hello and welcome back to another episode of the AI driven marketer I'm Dan Sanchez my friends call me danz and I'm still on this journey to master AI in 2024 and today I want to talk about something simple yeah I found is something that I'm using in my own AI Journey more and more and that is this desktop app that open AI just shipped if you've been listening to this show long you know that chat GPT is kind of my my main AI tool and while there's other tools I use like mid Journey or maybe some other tools that are just kind of baked into the other software I use um chat GPT is kind of the core thing that I use um I've certainly made considerations moving over to Microsoft co-pilot but I haven't pulled the trigger on that yet um but when they announced all the updates for their spring update um the desktop app was really intriguing to me because I actually I don't use a smartphone at all and that's a story for a different time of why I got rid of my smartphone um so I've actually not had the jet GPT I phone app and I haven't been able to use an audio recorder that they've kind of pre-built to the app before um launching this desktop app so this is going to my first rodeo interacting with chat GPT in a more Audi driven way now in the spring update they announced a new feature coming on to where like the audio is going to be super clean and it's where that has like the Scarlet Johansson voice and like you can interrupt it and all that kind of stuff that hasn't released yet I I can't wait for that uh when that comes out this will be even more true but uh I wanted to talk about how I'm actually using the audio version of chat GPT in order to do more of the work that I'm just doing naturally uh on a day-to-day basis with AI because I find that typing these really long super prompts can be quite tedious sometimes especially if they're just for like one-off tasks um having a transcription tool I was even using tools like what I'm recording this video on is a is a tool called ta makes it really easy for me to record myself my camera and then cut between the camera and the screen really easily it's a great little tool check it out um I believe it's in the tool tool section of Aid driven marketer.com you can read more about TAA and watch my overview of it um but I was even using it just to get the transcription to give a long prompt to then copy and paste over into cat GPT and it's kind of frustrating but now that's just kind of native in chat gbt and I wanted to show a demo real quick of just something really simple I did even just the other day when I needed some help that AI is just really good at but I did I wanted to make it short and simple and I didn't want to make it like okay let me think through writing this whole thing out and then make this robust onetime super prompt um and instead I just went open and opened it up in my desktop app and here I'll even model it for you exactly what I did here um and I'll just let the context of the prompt speak to what I was trying to figure out so here I have uh the desktop version of chat GPT open if you're following along in audio just know that you'll be able to hear this and kind of understand what I'm doing without seeing it but if you want to see it if you're an apple podcast there's a video version of it just open it up or if you're on YouTube and you're already watching this um I'm going to go ahead and open this up hi chaty PT I need some help real quick I'm learning the guitar and I don't really understand the letters well across the different strings so could you help me learn what the letters across the strings are by coming up with a funny little phrase that helps me memorize the letters of the strings in order kind of like how we use the phrase please excuse my dear Aunt Sally to remember uh the order of operations in math back in grade school what's the equivalent for the strings on the guitar so I could always remember that the order of the strings for the standard tuning of a guitar the strings from the lowest to the highest pitch are e a d g b and e a funny phrase to remember them could be Eddie ate Dynamite goodbye Eddie this way you can easily recall the order of the strings oh that's good thank you Chach PT you're welcome Happy playing if you have any other question and there you go and just interacting with it like that is really helpful because look how long this prompt is um I it would have taken me a bit to just type that out but it's so much easier to click record and just start just talking right that's how we used to delegate when we were back in the offices and talking to people like you used to turn over and talk to your neighbor or maybe to a direct report across the office be like hey Jenny you have a moment and they'd be like sure like how's it going with that one report could you change it over to me I'm working on this PowerPoint I just need it for this one slide real quick I noticed you had it open on your desktop sure like like these quick little verbal things like help a lot um when you have to go and formally type it out it's kind of a pain and I find just being able to like open up the voice recorder and just start talking to get it out of my mind and out into GPT is just so much f F and like what I just gave it here even though it's a fun little personal thing is my my daughter and I are learning how to play the guitar and needed to remember the order of the the strings uh this was something uniquely good that something AI could uniquely do that's good otherwise it would have taken me a long time to come up with a funny little sentence to put those letters together um Eddie ate Dynamite goodby goodbye Eddie man come on that's memorable um AI is really good at coming up with funny little creative things like that on the fly so this was a good use case for it but I'm only going to need this once because now I'm always going to remember eddie8 Dynamite goodbye Eddie right um and you probably will too so there's all these kinds of use cases where I'm using AI for these oneoff things hey do this funny little creative thing hey come up with some things for this hey but I want to give it more context and that's where this is really really helpful oftentimes we're used to using it like a search where we just type in a few words or maybe four or five words and then we just call it good and we pull up something useful on Google search maybe refine it a few times in AI we have to be more specific in order to get back more precise uh feedback from AI in the future AI will probably ask us for more information and get it out of us but for now we have to be more proactive in giving it the context that it needs in order for it to give us uh back what we really are hoping to get out of it and I find that this little audio tool being able to have a direct conversation with it or you can even just click this microphone here and start recording you can see it's here it's recording my voice I can click done and it's going to transcribe it really quick that's another way to do it in case you need to edit it or paste something else with it maybe like a transcript to a podcast or something so there's actually two different ways to get your voice recorded to speed up your prompt delivery with open Ai and as the new voice and conversation model drops soon in this app it's only going to be 10x more uh robust in your ability to have these dynamic convers ations with AI all day in order to be more become more productive in your marketing work so hopefully this tiny little lesson is helpful to you I know it's become a big part of my daily routine even just as I've been using this app over the last two weeks so take a moment to download it play with it and try it on