Bing AI Chat adds voice chat to desktop search

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Voice chat is a common way to interact with mobile devices, but not so much with desktop computers. Bing wants to change that by bringing voice chat to its desktop search interface. You can now talk to Bing on your PC or laptop using a microphone and hear its responses through speakers or headphones.

Bing voice chat on desktop supports five languages: English, French, German, Japanese, and Mandarin. Microsoft will add more languages soon. You can switch languages easily by clicking on the language icon in the chat box. Bing is the first major search engine to offer AI and voice chat on mobile and desktop platforms. This makes searching the web more convenient and engaging for users across devices. 

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Microsoft Bing's AI chatbot comes to the SwiftKey keyboard

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The latest Microsoft property to get its Bing AI capabilities is its popular mobile keyboard app, SwiftKey. When you click the Bing button on the top left side, you get three options: Search, Tone, and Chat. You can look things up while conversing with someone using Search. Chat will suggest responses that are in keeping with the messages you're responding to. And Tone will help keep things formal if you're replying to a work email. You can also access up to five chosen languages in the same release.

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Microsoft's Bing Chat AI starts rolling out to all users

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After the Bing Chat AI sidebar showed up, it looks like Microsoft is ready to offer its ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat AI to anyone who wants to use it. It's still listed as "join the waiting list" on the signup page, but when you sign up, it looks like you get instant access. I got access to the feature a few weeks back. 

Microsoft hasn't confirmed this change, but it is holding an event today on "Reinventing productivity with AI." The focus might be more on its tools for the Microsoft 365 suite, but there might be new changes to Bing. Microsoft confirmed recently that the new Bing runs on the GPT-4 engine for the last few weeks, well before OpenAI unveiled it. 

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Microsoft Edge gets a new Bing AI chatbot sidebar

Microsoft's Bing AI-powered chatbot is now more accessible inside the Edge browser. It was initially only available in the dev versions of Edge, but it's now rolling out on the stable versions of the browser on Windows and macOS. I've already spotted it on my browser. It shows up as a Bing button on the top right corner of the browser. 

When you hover or click on the button, it'll bring up the Bing chatbot experience. You can then use the chat function from there. You can ask it questions or help you with tasks like generating text for emails, letters, blog posts, and more. But in this sidebar configuration, you can ask it to summarize what you're reading on the page, do comparisons, and more.

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