Microsoft’s Copilot Assistant for Consumers Gets New Voice Capabilities

Microsoft Copilot mobile app

Microsoft is improving the consumer version of its Copilot assistant with new voice capabilities. The AI chatbot, which is available on the web and mobile, can now provide better real-time information when users talk to it, and it’s also adding support for more languages.

Microsoft relaunched its consumer chatbot in October with a new design and voice features to match the capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI previously said in October that he wanted Copilot to become “an AI companion for everyone.”

While we’re not exactly there yet, you can see in the video below that Copilot can now provide real-time updates about the weather and other things you may want to task throughout the day.

At launch, Copilot could only do voice chats with users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. Starting today, the AI assistant can now speak and understand over 40 languages including Arabic, Bengali, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Urdu, and Chinese.

If Copilot Voice is now available in all languages that Copilot supports, the AI chatbot is also now capable of providing transcripts of your conversations for reference. There’s indeed no reason to handle voice conversations differently than written chats.

 

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