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  • Updated: September 25, 2023

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT's Horizons With Voice, Image Features

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT's Horizons With Voice, Image Features

OpenAI generative AI assistant, ChatGPT has announced its plans to incorporate voice and image-based functionality, making it a more flexible and dynamic tool.

Since it first gained popularity about nine months ago, ChatGPT has become well-known for its ability to produce essays, poems, and summaries based on straightforward text prompts.

The most recent release from OpenAI, however, represents a significant advancement and a turning point in the development of the technology.

The choice to add voice and visual capabilities to ChatGPT demonstrates OpenAI's dedication to pushing the limits of AI innovation.

By providing a multifaceted experience that goes beyond conventional text-based interactions, these enhancements will enable ChatGPT to reinvent user interactions.

The inclusion of voice-based interactions is one of this improvement's notable features.

With ChatGPT, users may now have voice discussions, opening up a world of opportunities for interesting and dynamic interactions.

Users can ask ChatGPT to make up a quick bedtime story or to get answers to their inquiries, and they will hear the answers voiced back to them.

The voice feature is powered by a unique text-to-speech algorithm that can create voices that are strikingly similar to human speech using text inputs and brief speech samples.

Five separate voices were created by OpenAI in partnership with renowned voice actors, and the conversion of spoken words into text was handled using the open source Whisper speech recognition engine.

Users of ChatGPT will profit from image-based search functionalities in addition to speech capabilities.

They can post pictures and ask ChatGPT to explain what they show or give advice on how to carry out particular tasks.

The strategic decision by OpenAI to roll out these cutting-edge features coincides with a fierce generative AI competition taking place in the tech sector.

The battle between digital behemoths is getting fiercer, as evidenced by Amazon's recent pledge to invest up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic.

Notably, Microsoft is closely associating itself with OpenAI while Google is attempting to catch up with its Bard chatbot. Meta is also embracing open source ideals.

With OpenAI's seamless integration of the voice-based assistant industry with its potent large language models (LLMs), today's announcement marks a critical turning point in the development of generative AI.

The advancement not only promises a ChatGPT experience that is more engaging and dynamic, but it also exemplifies OpenAI's commitment to pushing the limits of AI research.

The relationship between OpenAI and Spotify, which allows podcasters to use speech translation features, adds a special depth to this development.

Although the public cannot use this technology, it illustrates OpenAI's dedication to working with significant figures in the podcasting sector, such as Dax Shepard, Monica Padman, Lex Fridman, Bill Simmons, and Steven Bartlett.

ChatGPT is poised to develop into an invaluable resource for a variety of businesses and individuals looking for cutting-edge AI-powered solutions as it develops into a more adaptable and interactive platform.

An innovative development in the field of artificial intelligence, the merging of voice and image-based features ushers in a new era of possibilities and user experiences.

“The new voice technology — capable of crafting realistic synthetic voices from just a few seconds of real speech — opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications,” the company wrote in a blog post.

“However, these capabilities also present new risks, such as the potential for malicious actors to impersonate public figures or commit fraud.”

Within the next two weeks, paid Plus and Enterprise users will start to receive the additional features. Users must go to the "settings" section in the app, select "new features," and then select "voice conversations" to enable voice features.

The next step is to hit the headphone button in the top-right corner and choose the desired voice.

Voice will initially only be available as an opt-in beta feature on the ChatGPT Android and iOS apps, although image search will be available by default across all platforms.

Exactly one week after Google updated its Bard AI tool, OpenAI announced fresh developments. By incorporating data from the Google apps and services that people often use, according to Google, it has increased Bard's functionality. 

According to Google, Bard's capacity to communicate with other applications and services to deliver more beneficial responses was the first step in a fundamentally new feature for the AI tool.  

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