OpenAI launched updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice function that permits real-time conversations in ChatGPT, to make the AI assistant extra personable and interrupt customers much less regularly.
Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI post-training researcher, introduced the modifications in a video posted Monday to the corporate’s official social media channels.
OpenAI’s newest replace goals to handle a frequent downside with AI voice assistants, which can interrupt customers once they pause to assume or take a deep breath.
Free customers of ChatGPT now have entry to a brand new model of Advanced Voice Mode that lets customers pause, with out being interrupted, when chatting with the AI assistant. Paying customers of ChatGPT — together with subscribers to OpenAI’s Plus, Teams, Edu, Business, and Pro tiers — may also now get much less frequent interruptions when utilizing Advanced Voice Mode, in addition to an improved character for the voice assistant.
An OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch its new AI voice assistant for paying customers is “extra direct, participating, concise, particular, and artistic in its solutions.”
The enhancements to Advanced Voice Mode come amid intense strain from opponents within the AI voice assistant house.
Sesame — an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup created by Oculus cofounder Brendan Iribe — lately went viral for its natural-sounding AI voice assistants, Maya and Miles. Larger gamers are additionally stepping extra aggressively into the AI voice assistant house, equivalent to Amazon, which is readying the discharge of its LLM-powered model of Alexa.
