OpenAI is releasing a much-anticipated new voice assistant to all paid customers of its chatbot ChatGPT, 4 months after the unreal intelligence firm first unveiled the characteristic at a product launch occasion.
The San Francisco-based start-up has began rolling out the choice, often called superior voice mode, to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and customers of its ChatGPT Group service for companies.
The corporate mentioned Enterprise and Edu paid customers will start getting s entry to the characteristic subsequent week.
OpenAI first teased the voice product in Could, displaying the way it may rapidly reply to written and visible prompts from customers with a spoken voice. However the subsequent month, OpenAI delayed launching the choice to work via potential issues of safety. In July, OpenAI rolled out the characteristic to a restricted variety of its ChatGPT Plus prospects.
After the delay, OpenAI mentioned the product wouldn’t have the ability to impersonate how different individuals converse. The corporate additionally mentioned that it had added new filters to make sure the software program can spot and refuse some requests to generate music or different types of copyrighted audio.
Nevertheless, the brand new voice assistant lacks numerous the capabilities the corporate initially demonstrated. For instance, the chatbot can’t at present entry a computer-vision characteristic that may let it provide spoken suggestions on an individual’s dance strikes just by utilizing their smartphone’s digital camera.
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As a part of the expanded roll-out, OpenAI mentioned it’s including 5 new voices to the characteristic, bringing the overall quantity customers can select to 9. New choices embrace voices with enigmatic, arboreal names, reminiscent of arbour, spruce and maple. — Rachel Metz, (c) 2024 Bloomberg LP
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