ChatGPT’s big Voice Mode upgrade is rolling out to Plus users

OpenAI stunned the world with a ChatGPT demo in mid-May, just a day before Google's AI-centric I/O 2024 event. OpenAI unveiled the GPT-4o model, a multimodal chatbot that can process audio, video, text, and image prompts. More interesting was the new Voice Mode that OpenAI developed for GPT-4o.

ChatGPT now supports more natural conversations. GPT-4o allows users to stop the chatbot at any time during a voice chat to tweak the conversation slightly, just as they would during a discussion with another person. ChatGPT will not lose its train of thought and will continue to process the updated voice prompts from the user.

At the same time, the new Voice Mode upgrade seemed capable of showing emotions, and detecting how the human feels. That's the Her-like personality that later got OpenAI in trouble with Scarlett Johansson.

All of that turned OpenAI's ChatGPT demo into a massive success.

However, the rollout of this ChatGPT voice upgrade was delayed as OpenAI continued to tweak it. Fast-forward to late July and OpenAI is ready to make the new Voice Mode available to users as long as they're subscribed to the ChatGPT Plus tier.

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