Fact · Dictation in your apps
In an April 2025 OpenAI community post, a user reported that ChatGPT dictation registered nothing in Chrome and, in the Android app, heard the voice but delivered no text.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“On Chrome, nothing seems to register at all. ... On the app, it listens, registers voice, but then never delivers anything to text.”
Voice to text not working in either web or app (OpenAI Developer Community, April 2025), OpenAI Developer Community, 2025, Original post, April 28, 2025.
Open the original- What it measures
- The post is from the ChatGPT Bugs category of the community forum, and a second user replied that they had the same issue.
- What it does not show
- One user's report from 2025, so it shows a failure pattern rather than how common the failure is.