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OpenAI’s new voice feature will not be available in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, and more
OpenAI rolled out the Advanced Voice Mode feature to all the paid s of ChatGPT on Tuesday. The feature was first unveiled at the OpenAI Spring Updates event in May and was touted as a human-like voice chat experience where the artificial intelligence (AI) can express emotions, modulate the voice, and react to what the is saying. In July, the real-time response feature was rolled out to select paid s, but now it is being made available to all ChatGPT Plus and Teams s, except in Europe.
In a iOS, but it will not be available on the web. The AI firm said once the feature has been rolled out to s, they will get a notification about it.
Advanced Voice is rolling out to all Plus and Team s in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) September 24, 2024
While you've been patiently waiting, we've added Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents.
It can also say “Sorry I'm late” in over 50 languages. pic.twitter.com/APOqqhXtDg
ChatGPT app s will find the option to turn on the Advanced Voice Mode by tapping the waveform icon placed next to the text field. Tapping on the icon activates the new voice mode. s now have five new voices to choose from — Vale, Spruce, Arbor, Maple, and Sol. Each of these voices has a different pitch, tonality, and regional accent.
Additionally, the Advanced Voice Mode also offers a custom instructions feature. In this, s can add information about themselves that they want the AI to . Once the information has been added to the text field, ChatGPT will it and all of its responses will be contextualised.
Notably, OpenAI was the first AI firm to announce this feature, however, Google was able to introduce a similar feature dubbed Gemini Live, before the ChatGPT maker. While the reason for this is not known, the company now says that it took this extra time to improve the “conversational speed, smoothness, and accents in select foreign languages.”
While the feature is available in multiple regions across the globe, the company confirmed that it will not be introduced in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. This is likely because of concerns of regulatory authorities over privacy and data collection.
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