A new leak on X.com appears to confirm that a select group of ChatGPT Plus users will have access to the advanced voice mode today, Tuesday, September 24, 2024.
Advanced voice mode, which OpenAI demonstrated in May of this year, ChatGPT allows you to talk to ChatGPT from your smartphone and have a human-like conversation, with the possibility of interrupting the chatbot if its answers are too long. You can also ask it complex questions with the expectation of getting a detailed answer.
The leak appears to be an email from the ChatGPT team telling a user that Advanced Voice Mode is “rolling out in a limited alpha release to a select group of users.” Access to the Advanced Mode alpha release on September 24, 2024, it says, “will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, invitations to participate and specific criteria set for the alpha testing phase.” All of which sounds like a very convoluted way of saying that not everyone can expect to get it.
Advanced alpha voice mode
Open AI originally stated that “all Plus users will have access by late fall,” so we don’t expect a full rollout of the technology just yet. However, if more Plus users are going to have access to the alpha version, then it’s an encouraging sign that we can expect the full rollout to go ahead as scheduled.
Being a ChatGPT Plus user requires a monthly subscription of $20 (£16, AU$30), but gives you access to a variety of LLMs, including the new version 01-preview, which was recently released and proved to be much better at solving maths and reasoning problems than previous versions of the chatbot.
While OpenAI initially got ahead of its competition when it demonstrated its advanced voice mode for realistic conversations, it has begun to fall behind its rivals. Google has already beaten it to the punch in launching Gemini Live, Google’s take on a conversational AI. While Apple has yet to release Siri 2.0, its improved AI assistant, we have seen demos and have a timeline for its release. which means we could get it sooner than we think.
