Updates from OpenAI come amid the ongoing AI race in the tech sector. Now you can speak out loud on ChatGPT and hear how your AI chatbot returns.
OpenAI, the startup behind the wildly popular chatbot, has announced that it is rolling out new features, including the ability to allow users to have a voice conversation with ChatGPT. In a company blog post on Monday, OpenAI threatened that this new feature could be used to “request a bedtime story for your family or settle a debate at the dinner table.”
OpenAI’s new voice features are similar to those currently offered by Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri voice assistants. In a demo of the new update shared by OpenAI, a user asks ChatGPT to come up with a story about a “super sunflower hedgehog named Larry.” The chatbot can tell the story with a human voice that can also answer questions like “What was his house like?” and “Who is his best friend?”.
ChatGPT’s voice capabilities “are powered by a new text-to-speech model that can generate a human-like sound from just text and a few seconds of speech,” according to an Open AI blog post. The company added that it worked with professional actors to create five different voices that can be used to animate the chatbot.
The new features will roll out to the app over the next two weeks for paying subscribers to ChatGPT’s Plus and Enterprise services. (Subscription for the Plus service is $20 per month, and the Enterprise service is currently only available to business customers). The updates from OpenAI come amid an ongoing AI race in the tech sector, which was initially fueled by the public launch of ChatGPT late last year. In recent weeks, tech giants have been racing to roll out new updates that incorporate more AI tools directly into their core products. Last week Google released a series of updates to its ChatGPT competitor, Bard. Amazon also said it is rolling out a generative update to its artificial intelligence-based Alexa voice assistant.
Source: CNN