OpenAI literally gave ChatGPT eyes, ears and a tongue with the updates it announced in September. With the new features, ChatGPT gained voice chat capability on Android and iOS, and users were given the option to have real conversations with the chatbot. At that time, the company made this feature available only to Plus and Enterprise subscribers, but promised to eventually make it available to other user groups. Now, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has announced that voice conversations on ChatGPT are rolling out to all free users on mobile devices.Voice conversation support opened to all ChatGPT users
When the company first introduced voice chats, it acknowledged that the ability to create realistic synthetic voices from just a few seconds of real conversation introduced new risks. For example, in this way, it is possible for malicious people to impersonate public figures or anyone they want. As a result, it was decided to focus ChatGPT’s audio feature on conversations.
OpenAI worked with voice actors to create this feature and offers five different voices to choose from. We checked the ChatGPT app on Android at the time of writing but could not access the voice chat feature. This feature will probably become widespread with the upcoming update in the coming days. It’s not entirely clear whether users will need to consent to access this feature, but paid subscribers were required to enable the feature by going to Settings and then New Features when voice chats became available.
Meanwhile, OpenAI fired its CEO and co-founder Sam Altman last Friday. His partner Greg Brockman resigned after the Altman incident, and OpenAI employees asked the board of directors to step back. Although much more happened during this process, today OpenAI announced that Altman and Brockman have been reinstated.
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