OpenAI is releasing the long-awaited ‘Advanced Voice’ feature.

Artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has begun rolling out its long-awaited “Advanced Voice” feature to select ChatGPT users.

“Advanced voice is rolling out to all Plus and Groups users in the ChatGPT app later this week,” OpenAI said in a September 24 post to X.

“It can say ‘sorry I'm late' in over 50 languages,” he said of the delay in releasing an audio feature that was scheduled to be released earlier in the year.

Advanced voice in the ChatGPT app is rolling out to all Plus and Groups users later this week.

While you're patiently waiting, we've added custom instructions, memory, five new sounds, and improved accents.

It can also say “sorry I'm late” in over 50 languages. pic.twitter.com/APOqqhXtDg

— Open AI (@OpenAI) September 24, 2024

Advanced Voice Mode is an upgrade to ChatGPT's latest 4.0 model. It allows for faster and more intuitive interaction with the model and includes many more human-like speech enhancements.

As part of the new feature, OpenAI has unveiled five new sounds, Arbor, Maple, SXol, Spruce and Vale, which come in addition to the existing Breeze, Juniper, Cove and Ember sound options.

ChatGPT Plus and Group tiers give users layered access to the new Voices, including allowing users to make conversations more human, allowing users to interrupt the conversation and change topics mid-conversation.

OpenAI includes instructions and “memories” when new sounds are released. Users can enter instructions that customize the chatbot to their preferences, and the chatbot can learn and “remember” important things from previous audio conversations.

Although it does not always work as intended. In the FAQ, OpenAI admits that the chat experience is not yet optimized for use with in-car Bluetooth or a speaker phone, and that ChatGPT can be interrupted by noise.

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Still, some X users complained that the new voice options were compared to Altman's controversial once-proposed “Sky” voice model — which was taken off the table in a heated legal dispute with actress Scarlett Johansson.

Johansson Altman She said she was offered to be the voice of ChatGPT in 2023 but decided to decline for “personal reasons”. Following Skye's release as the voice of GTP 4.0, the chatbot's strikingly similar voice features said she was “shocked, angry, and in disbelief.”

Altman later retracted the voiceover and maintained that the similarity was purely coincidental, although a single word on X read “her” — a direct reference to the 2013 Spike Jonze film in which Johansson introduced the intelligent operating system AI companion.

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