The San Francisco-based startup said on Tuesday that it has started rolling out the option, known as Advanced Voice Mode, to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and users of its ChatGPT Team service for businesses. Enterprise and edu-paid users will start getting access to the feature next week, the company said.
OpenAI first teased the voice product in May, showing how it could instantly respond to users' written and visual prompts by speaking. But the following month, OpenAI delayed the launch of the option to work on potential security issues. In July, OpenAI rolled out the feature to a limited number of its ChatGPT Plus customers.
Following the delay, OpenAI said the product would not be able to mimic other people's conversations. The company also said it had added new filters to ensure the software could recognise and reject certain requests to create music or other forms of copyrighted audio.
However, the new voice assistant lacks many of the capabilities the company originally demonstrated. For example, the chatbot currently cannot access the computer-vision feature that allows it to give spoken feedback on a person's dance moves using their smartphone's camera.
As part of the expanded rollout, OpenAI said it is adding five new voices to the feature, bringing the total number of voices users can choose from to nine. The new options include voices with mysterious, tree-related names, such as Arbor, Spruce, and Maple.
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