If you’re a paid subscriber to ChatGPT, you may have noticed the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model has recently started to sound more human when you are having audio interactions with it.
That’s because the company behind the language model-cum-chatbot, OpenAI, is currently running a limited pilot of a new feature known as “advanced voice mode”.
OpenAI says this new mode “features more natural, real-time conversations that pick up on and respond with emotion and non-verbal cues”. It plans for all paid ChatGPT subscribers to have access to the advanced voice mode in coming months.
Advanced voice mode sounds strikingly human. There aren’t the awkward gaps we are used to with voice assistants; instead it seems to take breaths like a human would.
It is also unfazed by interruption, conveys appropriate emotion cues and seems to infer the user’s emotional state from voice cues.
[Source: Theconversation]
