ChatGPT Debuts a New Voice — But It Comes With a Catch

After a one-month delay, OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a quality voice.

ChatGPT, which takes a written punctual and churns retired an reply based connected what it knows from its training data, was antecedently constricted to typed answers. As of Tuesday, a constricted group of paying ChatGPT Plus subscribers now person entree to different magnitude of nan AI chatbot: They tin entree 4 pre-loaded voices to talk to ChatGPT and get answers successful existent time.

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With nan sound mode, paying users tin talk to ChatGPT, interrupt its answers, and person much natural, human-like conversations. Each sound "senses and responds to your emotions," according to a Tuesday post connected X from OpenAI.

We're starting to rotation retired precocious Voice Mode to a mini group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers much natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions. pic.twitter.com/64O94EhhXK

In May, OpenAI demoed nan caller sound mode — to varying reactions. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said nan precocious sound adjunct felt "like AI from nan movies" but movie prima Scarlett Johansson was shocked by really similar 1 of nan voices sounded to hers, and hired ineligible counsel.

OpenAI besides had respective high-profile resignations complete information concerns pursuing nan demo, pinch its main intelligence leaving to commencement his ain safe AI company.

Though sound mode was expected to get successful precocious June, OpenAI delayed its launch and said it needed much clip to standard nan exertion safely to millions of users.

In nan X merchandise thread, OpenAI said it tested GPT-4o crossed 45 languages and only allows nan exemplary to speak successful preset voices, "to protect people's privacy."

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO. Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voice mode will besides artifact copyrighted and convulsive requests from users.

"We scheme to stock a elaborate study connected GPT-4o's capabilities, limitations, and information evaluations successful early August," OpenAI stated.

ChatGPT has much than 180 cardinal users arsenic of July 2024, pinch astir 3.9 million paying subscribers successful nan U.S.

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