DuckDuckGo has announced new voice chat capabilities for Duck.ai, the private AI chatbot platform it launched last March.
The new feature allows users to have real-time voice conversations with large language models (LLMs) over an encrypted transport connection. OpenAI provides LLM, which powers voice chats, but DuckDuckGo says that neither it nor OpenAI saves any audio after the conversation ends.
“Voice chats in Duck.ai are private, anonymized by us, and are never used to train the underlying AI,” the company said in its announcement. OpenAI is also contractually limited in how it can use voice chat data. Here’s how DuckDuckGo describes the service:
DuckDuckGo protects your audio stream and voice data in several ways to ensure that only OpenAI (the model provider for voice chats) can access it and only to respond to your calls:
- Transient Processing: Your live audio is only streamed when you speak. Once the session ends, neither DuckDuckGo nor OpenAI keep recordings of your voice.
- No Training: Your audio and model responses are not used to train AI models.
- Secure connection: Audio streams are encrypted in transit via WebRTC and our streaming server.
- Zero Data Retention: Neither DuckDuckGo nor OpenAI retain any conversation data after the voice chat ends.
The feature works in most browsers with the exception of Firefox, which the company says is still in the works. Voice chat is free within daily limits and does not require an account, while subscribers ($10 per month) get higher daily limits in addition to DuckDuckGo VPN access, personal data removal, and identity theft recovery.
Users can always turn off voice chat through Duck.ai’s settings if they change their mind about using this feature. Duck.ai also offers access to non-voice models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral.
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