OpenAI Engineer Argues Voice Agents Should Act, Not Only Talk

An OpenAI developer experience team member argues voice agents need not always speak back, outlining speech-to-speech, speech-to-action, and event-to-speech as emerging design modes.

He cites form filling, creative tools, and computer use as examples of speech-to-action, which he calls among the most underexplored areas. He says event-to-speech is still very exploratory, with hands-free recipe guidance and proactive alerts as examples.