OpenAI Claims Its AI Voice Assistant is now a Better Chat Model
The ChatGPT maker says its voice mode makes for a better chatting experience with real-time conversations.
On Monday, OpenAI released updates for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT, to make the AI assistant more personable and interrupt users less frequently. This upgrade was announced by Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI post-training researcher, via the company’s official social media channels.
Cutting Challenges
OpenAI’s latest update aims to address a frequent problem with AI voice assistants, which will interrupt users when they pause to think or take a deep breath.
Free users of ChatGPT now have access to a new version of Advanced Voice Mode that lets users pause, without being interrupted, when speaking to the AI assistant. Paying users of ChatGPT — including subscribers to OpenAI’s Plus, Teams, Edu, Business, and Pro tiers — will also now get less frequent interruptions when using Advanced Voice Mode, as well as an improved personality for the voice assistant.
Boosting Creativity
The improvements to Advanced Voice Mode come with creative imputes to help users. It's also an answer amid intense pressure from competitors in the AI voice assistant space.
Sesame — an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup created by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, recently went viral for its natural-sounding AI voice assistants, Maya and Miles. Larger players are also stepping more aggressively into the AI voice assistant space, such as Amazon, which is readying the release of its LLM-powered version of Alexa.
