# Guinness Chen
Member of technical staff at [[OpenAI]], building voice control for [[OpenAI Codex]] and ChatGPT Voice. Their X bio reads "Codex Voice at @openai". Before OpenAI, they were at Stanford and at Imbue, an AI lab.
## Recent Activity
- Works on GPT-Live, the full-duplex voice mode in the [[ChatGPT]] desktop app that can drive Codex hands-free
- Appeared in OpenAI's demo video with Jason Liu: two people talking to the same ChatGPT desktop session
- Posted "You can now summon Codex from anywhere on your desktop" (retweeted by OpenAI Developers); see [[Codex App]]
- Contributes to the openai/codex repository on GitHub as `guinness-oai` (e.g., a PR adding realtime speech append control)
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## Related
- [[OpenAI]]
- [[OpenAI Codex]]
- [[Codex App]]
- [[ChatGPT]]
- [[OpenAI Realtime API]]
- [[GPT-Realtime-2]]
## References
- X: https://x.com/guinnesschen
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guinness-chen/
- VentureBeat, "Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full-duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop": https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/agentic-coding-goes-hands-free-as-openai-brings-gpt-lives-full-duplex-voice-control-to-codex-and-chatgpt-on-the-desktop
- openai/codex PR #27917: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27917