ChatGPT Dots voice calls: how to call your dot

To call your dot, open its conversation and click the phone button at the top right. You talk, and your dot answers out loud.

You need a dot (create one first) and a microphone ChatGPT is allowed to use. Calls work in a desktop browser, the desktop app and the ChatGPT phone app, and not in a phone's web browser.

#Call your dot on a computer

A call is a small card that sits on top of your dot's conversation. These six steps follow one call from start to finish.

Walkthrough

Call your dot on a computer

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1Click the phone button
Open your dot's conversation. The phone sits at the top right, and its tooltip reads Start call. The Call button in your dot's profile does the same thing.
Marker 1 Marker 2 Marker 3
1. Calling... means it's ringing.
2. Mute your microphone.
3. Hang up.
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2Wait while it says Calling...
A dark card appears with your dot's name and Calling.... A call that works connects within a few seconds.
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3Talk when the timer starts
Calling... turns into a timer. Your dot can hear you now. Say what you want the way you'd say it to a colleague.
Marker 1
1. What your dot is doing right now.
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4Watch the line under its name
While your dot works on what you said, the timer gives way to what it's doing: Thinking, or a step such as Sending message to cloud chat. The conversation underneath stays usable, so type anything that has to be exact, such as a link or a name.
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5Click the red button to hang up
Its tooltip reads Hang up.
Marker 1 Marker 2
1. The call, logged with its length.
2. The write-up. What you said out loud isn't copied into the conversation, so this is your record.
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6Read what the call left behind
The card disappears. Your conversation gains a marker with the call's length, and under it your dot writes up what you agreed.

#Call from your phone

On a phone the steps are the same and the call fills the screen. Open the ChatGPT app's menu, tap your dot (it's the first entry), then tap the phone button at the top right of the conversation.

Two iPhone screens side by side. On the left the call reads Calling... with buttons labeled iPhone, End and Mute. On the right it shows a timer at 0:00 and the first button now reads Speaker — The same call a few seconds apart. **End** hangs up, and **Mute** turns into **Unmute** while you're muted. Image: Futurepedia

#Try a call

Now place one yourself. This practice call shows what your dot does with four things people say on a call, and what the conversation looks like after you hang up.

Call a dot

Tap the phone button, say a few things, then hang up. Watch what the call does and what it leaves behind in the conversation.

JunoActive

The budget report is about half done. I'll send it when it's ready.

tap the phone, top right

Message

Not on a call. Tap the phone button at the top right of the conversation.

While you're connected, try saying:

Hand over a job by voice

Your dot starts while you're still talking. The line under the timer shows the step it's on, such as Thinking.

The job is the same as one you typed: it keeps running after you hang up.

Ask how a job is going

You get a spoken summary. A call works from part of your conversation, so it can know less than the task that's running in the background.

For the detail, open the task under Recent activity in your dot's profile.

Ask your dot to call you

Your dot can't start a call. Calls go one way: you call it. It offers a message at that time instead.

Type while you talk

The conversation stays open during a call. Type anything that has to be exact: a link, a name, a number. Your dot can message you there too.

Hang up

The conversation gains a marker with the call's length, and your dot writes up what you agreed. What you said out loud isn't written into the conversation.

Hanging up ends the voice conversation and nothing else. Work you handed over carries on.

When the call doesn't connect

The screen reads Call failed. Check that ChatGPT may use your microphone, then tap Try again. A second try often connects.

Need your dot right now? Type to it. Messages don't depend on the call.

Make the next call fail

A practice call: no real call is placed. Open on its own page

#What hanging up does

Hanging up ends the call. A job you handed over during it keeps running.

To stop the job as well, tell your dot to stop, out loud before you hang up or in a message afterwards.
A call works from part of your conversation. For the detail of a running task, open it under Recent activity in your dot's profile.

#If the call won't connect

Sometimes Calling... never turns into a timer. On a phone the screen changes to Call failed. On a computer a red banner reads "Couldn't connect the call. Please try again".

An iPhone call screen reading Call failed. Couldn't connect the call. Check your connection and microphone access, then try again. A Try again button sits under the message — Image: Minda on X

Try these in order:

Hang up and call again. If it still says Calling... after ten seconds or so, that call isn't going to connect. A second try often does.
Check microphone access. The first call asks for it. If you clicked Don't Allow, turn the microphone on for ChatGPT in your system or browser settings.
Stop dictating. The microphone in the message box is Dictate, which types what you say. While it's recording, the phone button is greyed out.
Call from another device. If the phone app fails, try a computer, and the other way round.
Type instead. Messages don't depend on the call.

#Check you've got it

One question before you move on.

Predict

You ask your dot on a call to compare five hotels. Ten seconds later you hang up. What happens to the hotel job?

It stops, because the call ended
It keeps running and the answer arrives in your conversation
It pauses until you call back

Show the answer

It keeps running and the answer arrives in your conversation

Your dot writes up what you agreed right under the Call ended marker.

#Next step

You can call your dot. The last lesson covers what it remembers.

Next lessonMemory

A dot remembers with three things: the conversation, its own notes and ChatGPT memory. See where each fact lands, what you can view, and how to delete it.

Can my dot call me at a set time?

No. You place every call. Ask your dot for a message at that time, and call it when the message arrives.

Is there a time limit on a call?

OpenAI doesn't publish one, and the call screen shows no limit. The timer just counts up.

Do calls use up my plan's usage?

Conversations with your dot don't count toward your ChatGPT usage limits, and a call is a conversation. Jobs your dot starts in Work or Codex because of a call count toward those products' limits as usual. See Dots usage limits.

6 October 2026
Rebuilt around the real call screens, with a practice call.
5 October 2026
First published.