The voice input suddenly gets good, but only on the mobile app?
I switched from ChatGPT to Gemini a few months ago, but I still keep ChatGPT installed on both my Mac and iPhone because its voice input is insanely good. I can talk for 10 minutes straight and switch freely between three languages mid-sentence, yet ChatGPT still detects everything correctly and transcribes it accurately.
Meanwhile, Google’s voice input used to be terrible. It would cut me off early, only understood English, and had poor accuracy. Recently, however, something changed. The Gemini mobile app is now almost as good as ChatGPT. I can speak for much longer without being cut off, and it’s finally smart enough to recognize multiple languages on the fly.
What confuses me is that the web version is still awful. While it no longer cuts me off, it still only understands English, and the transcription quality is nowhere near that of the mobile app.
So, what’s actually going on here? How does ChatGPT manage to have consistently great voice input across every platform, while Google still can’t match it in 2026?