OpenAI has not had an easy year with the issue of the voice that imitates that of Scarlett Johansson; who was one of the protagonists of the film Her with Joaquín Phoenix. Now it seems that he wants revenge on the upcoming arrival of a series of voices who not only stick to a different tone of voice, but possess fascinating abilities.
and the voice is an essential part of this conversational mode who amazed half the world with the incredible skills of GPT-4o in engaging in verbal communication that, in addition to being distinguished by its ability to express emotions, responds immediately. This is precisely where Google aims to improve yesterday the speed with which Gemini Flash 1.5 responds.
User Tibor Blaho from his X account (formerly Twitter) shared a video showing the eight new voices and some of their abilities. The names of each of them are Fathom, Glimmer, Harp, Maple, Orbit, Rainbow, Reef, Ridge, and Vale. and all They have a very particular tone of voice to differentiate them and so look for the one who will become the voice of ChatGPT.
Preview of new ChatGPT voices (animal sounds)
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– Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) September 1, 2024
What is fascinating about these voices is that they are able to imitate animal sounds or even create them
Of course, we don’t know, according to Android Policewhether these voices will finally make it to the final version of ChatGPT, although this could very well be the case, since behind it there is an excellent job done by the actors; whether they will all be used, that will be a completely different story.
We have to count on that OpenAI recently introduced a new advanced voice mode in the alpha version that allows users to have even more real conversations with ChatGPT. It is planned that at some point, the conversational mode will be released in the final version, which will be a radical change in the use of the AI chatbot.
And if when it was presented in May it seemed ready to be deployed, it now seems that OpenAI is taking its time with its arrival and leave everything well tied up, because this will be a very important moment. If you manage to make the experience perfect without any type of error, you will get an exponential effect and thus prevent Google from having an easier time with Gemini Live.