TL;DR: OpenAI's ChatGPT has added voice and image prompting for plus users, coming to everyone else "soon after". You can now ask questions by speaking or uploading images. It uses advanced text-to-speech and image recognition technology, but with controlled limitations to prevent misuse.
The gap between free and paid accounts becomes bigger and bigger.
At least it’s supposed to be coming for free users as well, just not yet. We’ll see.