Taking it further is the highly interactive Advanced Voice mode, which OpenAI initially showcased in May this year, where you can actually speak to ChatGPT right from your smartphone and even interrupt the chatbot if its’ continuous responses are irritating you. It also allows you to ask it questions that it knows would require it to give a detailed response to.
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode
Leak on X suggests that yet again ChatGPT Plus users are going to receive access to the Advanced Voice mode starting today, September 24, 2024. When OpenAI first announced the bot, the company said that ‘all Plus users will have it by the end of fall’ so we are not anticipating an immediate live setting of the technology. But if more Plus users are going to be able to get into the alpha version, then that means we will be able to see the full release on time.
As OpenAI wrote that all Plus users for the instrument should be given availability by the end of the fall, it does not appear that the company will launch the technology fully at this point. If more Plus users are going to obtain the alpha version, then that is a good sign that we will have the full version at the right time.
New leaks about Advanced Voice Mode
The leak seems to be an email from the ChatGPT team informing a user that Advanced Voice mode is “currently experiencing limited alpha testing with a select number of users”. It states, “There is no definitive date set for when the advanced mode alpha, which is currently scheduled for September 24, 2024, will be available – It will depend on several factors such as participation invitation and the alpha testing criteria.” All of which sounds fairly roundabout to say the obvious: not everyone will be able to score it.
Plus user access is available at $20 per month (£16, AU$30) and gives users access to various LLMs; the most recent of which is the version 01-preview chatbot that was unveiled recently and was far more efficient at solving mathematical problems and general reasoning than earlier chatbots.
When OpenAI was demonstrating its ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode for coherent conversations, it was easier for this bot to outcompete others, but it is no longer the same. It seems Google has already gotten there first with Gemini Live, which is Google’s facsimile of a conversational AI. Apple has not yet in Siri 2.0, but there are demos out there and a time frame set for its release so it might be out than you expect it to be.