OpenAI released updates on Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, an AI-powered voice assistant feature that allows real-time conversations in ChatGPT, making the AI assistant less likely to interrupt users, TechCrunch reports, writes UNN.
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Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI researcher focusing on post-training, announced the changes in a video posted Monday on the company's official social media channels.
The latest OpenAI update aims to address a common problem with AI-powered voice assistants, which interrupt users when they pause to think or take a deep breath.
Free ChatGPT users now have access to a new version of Advanced Voice Mode, which allows users to pause without being interrupted while talking to the AI-powered assistant. Paid ChatGPT users, including subscribers to OpenAI's Plus, Teams, Edu, Business, and Pro tiers, will now also be interrupted less frequently when using Advanced Voice Mode, and will also get enhanced personality for the voice assistant.
An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that its new AI-powered voice assistant for paying users is "more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative in its responses."
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The improvements to Advanced Voice Mode come amid intense pressure from competitors in the field of AI-powered voice assistants.
Sesame, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and founded by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, recently went viral with its natural-sounding AI-powered voice assistants Maya and Miles. Larger players are also entering the AI-powered voice assistant market more aggressively, such as Amazon, which is preparing to release its LLM-based version of Alexa.