Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI\u00a0is rolling out a feature for its ChatGPT app that lets the chatbot respond to spoken questions and commands with speech of its own.<\/p>\n
Starting over the next two weeks, users will be able to\u00a0choose a voice in the\u00a0chatbot\u00a0app<\/a>,<\/strong> picking from five personas with names like \u201cJuniper,\u201d\u00a0\u201cBreeze\u201d\u00a0and \u201cEmber.\u201d<\/p>\n ChatGPT\u00a0will then produce audio of\u00a0the text it generates in that voice \u2014\u00a0for example, reading an AI-generated\u00a0bedtime story out loud.<\/p>\n The feature will be available to people who subscribe to OpenAI\u2019s $20-per-month\u00a0ChatGPT Plus<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0service and enterprise users.<\/p>\n OpenAI released its ChatGPT\u00a0app in\u00a0May, and\u00a0already offers a voice-to-text capability that lets users talk to the bot.<\/p>\n Adding an audio response feature\u00a0could create a sense that people are having a more human conversation.<\/p>\n The company hopes the new feature will encourage on-the-go uses of its mobile app, putting it in closer competition with personal assistant offerings like Google\u2019s Assistant, Apple Inc.\u2019s Siri\u00a0or Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s Alexa.<\/p>\n Requests could include asking the program to\u00a0talk about the history of Disneyland while driving to the theme park,\u00a0or asking for a cocktail recipe while rummaging around in the kitchen.<\/p>\n In a test of the tool, it ably narrated a story about a starfish and a rutabaga.<\/p>\n However, while ChatGPT can come up with lyrics for songs, the app\u00a0will decline to sing.<\/p>\n The voices of ChatGPT sound\u00a0fairly human-like (though a close listen reveals a bit of a robotic monotone).<\/p>\n OpenAI said it worked with voice actors to build the text-to-speech AI model that underlies the feature.<\/p>\n The company also said than in the coming weeks paid\u00a0and enterprise\u00a0<\/strong>users will be able to access a feature for GPT-4 \u2014 one of the AI models that powers ChatGPT \u2014 to submit a picture and a related question about it.<\/p>\n For example, it will be possible to upload a picture of pink sunglasses and ask the chatbot to suggest an outfit to go with it, or to submit a picture of a math problem and request help solving it.<\/p>\n The feature, which OpenAI announced earlier this year\u00a0when it unveiled GPT-4<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0is available through the ChatGPT app and website.<\/p>\n Starting over the next two weeks, users will be able to\u00a0choose a voice in the\u00a0chatbot\u00a0app, picking from five personas with names like \u201cJuniper,\u201d\u00a0\u201cBreeze\u201d\u00a0and \u201cEmber.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":500941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,83065,84925,85683,45266,49673],"class_list":["post-509124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-gpt-4","tag-large-language-models","tag-openai","tag-text-to-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509130,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509124\/revisions\/509130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Big Windows 11 update \u2014 here are some of the 150 new features<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"