Lifehacker: How DuckDuckGo’s New Encrypted Voice AI Chat Compares With ChatGPT and Gemini. “Since its launch in 2024, the portal has only offered a chatbot interface, but now, DuckDuckGo has added a voice mode as well. With voice chat, instead of reading through long and meandering answers, the AI replies in short, to-the-point snippets that are relevant to your query.”