OpenAI launches ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode, but it’s not coming to the EU

September 25 (Portaltic/EP) –

OpenAI ha started rolling out advanced voice mode for ChatGPT Plus and Team users, which enables a more natural conversation with Artificial Intelligence (AI) by displaying “emotions and nonverbal signals“, although, for the moment, does not reach the European Union (EU).

The company led by Sam Altman presented its model in May of this year GPT-4odesigned for offer a “more natural” interaction between man and machine, by having the ability to understand a combination of text, audio and image inputs and generate responses in equal measure with great speed.

Also, as the technology company explained at the time, this model includes a Advanced ‘Voice Mode’which allows you to choose from a series of voices to personalize the interaction with the chatbot.

However, although the advanced ‘Voice Mode’ was going to be tested with a group of users in July, OpenAI announced the delay of this feature for ensure that they meet “high standards of safety and reliability”. Later, during the month of July, the technology company announced the deployment of a alpha version of this advanced voice mode for a small group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

Now, OpenAI has announced that it has We have started to roll out ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode for users subscribed to the Plus and Teams version.who will now be able to start conversing with OpenAI’s AI in a more natural way in real time.

This is what the technology company has detailed in a publication in the social network X (former Twitter), where he shared that, with the launch, new features have been included such as Personalized instructions, conversation memory and five new voices with improved accents.

Specifically, the new integrated voices are those known as Arbor, Maple, Sol, Spruce and Vale, which are added to the already existing Breeze, Juniper, Cove and Ember. It should be noted that one of the missing voices In advanced voice mode it is the one Sky, which was used by OpenAI as a demonstration of this feature, and ended up generating controversy for resemble the voice of actress Scarlett Johanssonwho previously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 film Her.

On the other hand, regarding personalized instructions, OpenAI has indicated that They allow you to configure how ChatGPT should respond to user interactionsFor example, you may be asked to respond in a calm tone or to refer to the user by name.

The company has also noted that have improved speed and fluency of the conversation. They have also added memory so that the ‘chatbot’ remember previous conversations to be able to consult them.

Although this advanced voice mode feature is available in more than 50 languagesOpenAI has specified that, for the moment, Not available for users in the European Unionnor has it been deployed in United Kingdom, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.