ChatGPT Now Has Five Different Vocalizations Thanks to OpenAI

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence startup, is introducing a new capability to its ChatGPT app. This update allows the chatbot to respond to spoken questions and commands using its own speech. Within the next two weeks, users will have the option to select from five different personas, such as “Juniper,” “Breeze,” and “Ember,” to personalize the voice of the chatbot. By choosing a persona, ChatGPT will generate audio in that specific voice, enabling activities like reading AI-generated bedtime stories aloud. This feature will be accessible to subscribers of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus service, priced at $20 per month, as well as enterprise users.

OpenAI released its ChatGPT app in May and already offers a speech-to-text feature that lets users talk to the bot. Adding a voice response feature can create the feeling that people are having a more human conversation. The company hopes the new feature will encourage on-the-go use of its mobile app and put it in closer competition with personal assistants such as Google’s Assistant, Apple Inc’s Siri or Amazon.com Inc’s Alexa.

Requests can include asking for a program to talk about the history of Disneyland as you drive into the theme park, or asking for a cocktail recipe while messing around in the kitchen. In the tool’s test, it skillfully told the story of starfish and rutabaga. While ChatGPT can come up with lyrics to songs, the app refuses to sing.

ChatGPT’s voices sound quite human (although a close listen reveals a bit of a robotic monotone). OpenAI said it worked with voice actors to create text-to-speech – the AI model behind the feature.

The company also said that in the coming weeks, paid and business users will be able to use a feature of GPT-4, one of the AI models that use ChatGPT, to send a photo and an accompanying question. For example, you can upload a picture of pink sunglasses and ask the chatbot to suggest living with it, or send a picture of a math problem and ask for help solving it. The feature, which OpenAI announced earlier this year when it announced GPT-4, is available through the ChatGPT app and website.

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