The company said users are limited only to the nine voices from OpenAI. It also said that it evaluated its safety before release.
Four months after it was initially shown off to the public, OpenAI is finally bringing its new humanlike conversational voice interface for ChatGPT — “ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode” to users beyond its initial small testing group and waitlist.
All paying subscribers to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus and Team plans will get access to the new ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode, though the access is rolling out gradually over the next several days, according to OpenAI. It will be available in the U.S. to start.
Next week, the company plans to make ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode available to subscribers of its Edu and Enterprise plans.
In addition, OpenAI is adding the ability to store “custom instructions” for the voice assistant and “memory” of the behaviors the user wants it to exhibit, similar to features rolled out earlier this year for the text version of ChatGPT.
And it’s shipping five new, different-styled voices today, too: Arbor, Maple, Sol, Spruce, and Vale — joining the previous four available, Breeze, Juniper, Cove, and Ember, which users could talk to using ChatGPT’s older, less advanced voice mode.
This means ChatGPT users, individuals for Plus and small enterprise teams for Teams, can use the chatbot by speaking to it instead of typing a prompt. Users will know they’ve entered Advanced Voice Assistant via a popup when they access voice mode on the app.
“Since the alpha, we’ve used learnings to improve accents in ChatGPT’s most popular foreign languages, as well as overall conversational speed and smoothness,” the company said. “You’ll also notice a new design for Advanced Voice Mode with an animated blue sphere.
