DuckDuckGo Adds AI Voice Chat to Duck.ai With Privacy Protections

Source: MacRumors

New Voice Chat Capability

DuckDuckGo has announced new voice chat capabilities for Duck.ai, the private AI chatbot platform it launched last March. The feature lets users have real‑time voice conversations with large language models (LLMs) through an encrypted relay connection. OpenAI provides the LLMs that power voice chats, but DuckDuckGo says that neither it nor OpenAI stores any audio after conversations end.

Privacy Protections

DuckDuckGo protects your audio stream and voice data in several ways, ensuring it can only be accessed by OpenAI (the model provider for voice chats) and only for the purpose of responding to your prompts:

• Ephemeral processing – Your live audio is streamed only while you’re speaking. Once the session ends, neither DuckDuckGo nor OpenAI keeps recordings of your voice.
• No training – Your audio and the model’s responses are not used to train AI models.
• Secure connection – Audio streams are encrypted in transit through WebRTC and DuckDuckGo’s relay server.
• Zero data retention – Neither DuckDuckGo nor OpenAI retains any conversation data after you end a voice chat.

Availability and Pricing

• The feature works in most browsers; Firefox support is still in development.
• Voice chat is free within daily limits and does not require an account.
• Subscribers ($10 / month) receive higher daily limits plus additional benefits such as DuckDuckGo VPN access, Personal Information Removal, and Identity Theft Restoration.

This article first appeared on MacRumors.com.