ChatGPT can now talk to you. Here's how to use the newly released features by OpenAI

2 min read 26 Sep 2023, 09:51 AM IST Join us

Aman Gupta

OpenAI's ChatGPT now has voice and image capabilities, allowing users to have voice conversations and include images in conversations.

(FILES) This illustration picture shows the AI (Artificial Intelligence) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI Apps in Vaasa, on June 6, 2023. US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company's release of ChatGPT took the world by storm. The trio also filed a suit against Facebook parent company Meta, whose less known open source models also used pirated downloads of their books for training purposes, the suit alleged. In both lawsuits, which were filed on July 7, 2023, in a California court, the authors accuse the tech companies of using their books to train their AI models and are claiming a series of copyright infringements. (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN / AFP) (AFP) — (FILES) This illustration picture shows the AI (Artificial Intelligence) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI Apps in Vaasa, on June 6, 2023. US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company's release of ChatGPT took the world by storm. The trio also filed a suit against Facebook parent company Meta, whose less known open source models also used pirated downloads of their books for training purposes, the suit alleged. In both lawsuits, which were filed on July 7, 2023, in a California court, the authors accuse the tech companies of using their books to train their AI models and are claiming a series of copyright infringements. (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN / AFP) **(AFP)**

ChatGPT can now talk to you:

ChatGPT will now be able to answer users' questions in five different voices, which can be selected according to user preferences. OpenAI says it has enlisted the help of professional voice actors to create each voice, while also using the company's proprietary Whisper speech recognition system to transcribe spoken words into text.

ChatGPT's new voice capabilities are powered by a new text-to-speech model that OpenAI claims is capable of generating human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of speech samples, opening the door to many "creative and accessibility-focused applications".

OpenAI is also working with other companies to harness the power of this new technology. Spotify has also partnered with the AI startup to translate podcasts into additional languages in the podcaster's own voice.

When can you start using new ChatGPT features?

The new features will be available to Plus and Enterprise users in the next two weeks followed by developers ‘soon after’.
In order to activate the Voice Feature users will have to ‘Settings’ menu on the ChatGPT mobile app and click on 'New Features'. They will then have to opt into voice conversations and tap the headphone button in the top-right corner of the home screen to select their preferred voice.

The Voice feature will only be available to ChatGPT app users on an opt-in beta basis. However, Image search will be turned in by default on all platforms.

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Updated: 26 Sep 2023, 10:03 AM IST