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Comet's upgraded voice mode lets you browse without moving your mouse.

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

Perplexity just flipped the switch on an upgraded voice mode for its Comet browser . Desktop users can try it right now. iOS users wait a few more days. The update lets you control everything hands free. Open sites, scroll pages, or follow links. All by talking.

On desktop you hit Shift + Alt + V, or Shift + Option + V on a Mac. On iPhone the same tools arrive soon, turning Comet into what might be the first mobile browser you never have to touch.

The feature runs on OpenAI’s latest real time model. CEO Aravind Srinivas announced the rollout on X and thanked OpenAI’s multimodal team. The goal is full browser navigation through speech, not just voice search.

Built on OpenAI’s latest voice tech

This voice mode uses OpenAI’s gpt-realtime-1.5 model, built for low-latency voice agents.…