OpenAI has decided to give all ChatGPT users on its free tier a 10-minute preview a month of its advanced voice mode, and if you have the ChatGPT app on your phone, you can try it out right now.
Typically only available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, Advanced Voice Mode gives you the ability to talk to ChatGPT on your smartphone and have it respond to you in the voice of your choice. You can ask him pretty much anything within reason and get a human response. In many ways, it's the natural evolution of the chatbot into something that looks even more futuristic.
See you later, scarlet
It seems that we are already a long way from the launch of the ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode, back in May of this year, when actress Scarlett Johansson went to war with OpenAI over the use of her voice called Sky, which sounded very similar to her. voice from the film Her, in which she played an AI-powered assistant.
OpenAI denied claims that it had copied its voice. A statement from CEO Sam Altman on May 20, 2024 read: “Sky's voice is not Scarlett Johansson's and was never intended to be like hers. We cast the voice actor behind Sky's voice before contacting Ms. Johansson. Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have stopped using Sky's voice in our products. “We are very sorry, Ms. Johansson, that we have not communicated better.”
Although your time is limited, you get access to all the features of Advanced Voice Mode for those 10 glorious minutes, including the ability to choose a voice. In the current version of Advanced Voice mode you will find nine different voices to choose from, which have different qualities: Sol, Juniper, Vale, Spruce, Breeze, Arbor, Cove, Maple and Ember.
The advanced voice mode is a real step up from the previous standard voice mode you'd find on ChatGPT: it can detect and respond to humor and you can interrupt it at any time while it's talking. Interestingly, once you've chosen a voice, you won't be able to ask ChatGPT to then switch to another voice. Instead, you need to go into Settings, which you can access by tapping your name at the bottom of the screen and scrolling down until you find Voice and tapping it.
How to know you have advanced voice mode
Advanced Voice Mode is hard to miss: In the iOS or Android app you'll see a pop-up message in the pop-up window informing you that you have access to Advanced Voice Mode and pointing to a new icon on the far right. Just tap on it to get started. The first time you access it you will be asked to choose a voice and once you have done so you will be ready to go.
When you see a glowing blue orb, which is a bit reminiscent of a palantír from The Lord of the Rings, you know ChatGPT is listening and you can start having a conversation: ask what you should have for lunch today or where a good place would be. to go on vacation. You'll find that the conversation seems surprisingly real.
