Capping off a whole week of Succession-level corporate drama, OpenAi is rolling out a new ChatGPT feature to its free users, or rather, it’s making an existing paid feature available to everyone. The voice, launched back in September, is now free for anyone using the app to try out while it was previously exclusive to Plus and Enterprise subscribers.
The voice feature lets you have a conversation with ChatGPT by talking instead of typing. To activate it, you just need to tap on the headphone icon in the app and choose from one of five voices to interact with. It’s powered by a new text-to-speech model, capable of generating human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech, as well as Whisper, an open-source speech recognition system, to transcribe your spoken words into text.
What this means is that your entire conversation with ChatGPT will be transcribed so you can look at it later after you close the voice feature. The AI is capable of conversing in multiple languages including Chinese, and while it’s unclear exactly how many languages it’s capable of in total, it’s even able to understand and converse in Malay.
While it’s great that the voice feature is now free to use, its image feature, which lets you show images to ChatGPT for it to recognise, is still locked behind the Plus upgrade. This subscription costs RM99.90 per month and new upgrades are currently paused at the moment.
(Source: OpenAi)
