If you dream of spending your summer whispering sweet nothings into the digital ears of one of OpenAI’s adorable ChatGPT voice assistants. demonstrated you’ll have to dream a little more last month. On Tuesday, the company announced that the “advanced Voice mode” feature needed more time in the oven “to get to our bar to start.” The feature will be available to a small group of users to gather feedback and then roll out to all paying ChatGPT customers in the fall.
“We’re improving the model’s ability to detect and reject certain content,” OpenAI wrote in X. “We’re also improving the user experience and building our infrastructure to scale to millions while maintaining real-time responses.”
We’re excited to share an update to the advanced Audio mode we featured during our Spring Update:
We had planned to start rolling this out in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users at the end of June, but it will take another month to get to our bar to go live.…
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 25, 2024
Voices have been part of ChatGPT since 2023. But last month, OpenAI showed off an improved version that sounds human. made comparisons With the charming voice assistant Samantha from the 2013 film His, performed by Scarlett Johansson. Weeks after the presentation, the actress accused OpenAI copies his voice even though he doesn’t allow it.
OpenAI said it’s still determining when the new voices (minus Johansson’s voiceover) will roll out to paid users this fall. Another feature that lets voice assistants use your phone’s camera to understand the world around you has also been delayed until then. “Exact timelines are dependent on meeting our high security and reliability standards,” the company said.
