OpenAI is releasing a much-anticipated new voice assistant to all paid users of its chatbot ChatGPT, four months after the artificial intelligence company unveiled the feature at a product launch event.
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OpenAI is releasing a much-anticipated new voice assistant to all paid users of its chatbot ChatGPT, four months after the artificial intelligence company unveiled the feature at a product launch event.
The San Francisco-based startup said it has rolled out the option known as Enhanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT Plus customers and users of its ChatGPT Teams service for businesses. The company said that enterprise and edu-paid users will start getting access to the feature next week.
OpenAI first teased the voice product in May, showing how it could instantly respond to users’ written and visual signals with a spoken voice. But the next month, OpenAI delayed launching the option to work on potential security issues. In July, OpenAI rolled out the feature to a limited number of its ChatGPT Plus customers.
After the delay, OpenAI said the product would not be able to mimic other people’s conversations. The company also said it has added new filters to ensure that the software can recognize and reject certain requests to generate music or other forms of copyrighted audio.
However, the new voice assistant lacks many of the capabilities originally showcased by the company. For example, the chatbot currently can’t access the computer-vision feature that would let it offer spoken feedback on a person’s dance moves using their smartphone’s camera.
As part of the expanded rollout, OpenAI said it is adding five new voices to the feature, bringing the total number that users can choose from to nine. New options include sounds with mysterious, woody names, such as Arbor, Spruce, and Maple.