The new feature has prompted a host of TikTok users to post videos showing off Advanced Voice Mode’s capabilities, including speaking in slang, dialects and even the occasional regional accent. The results are surprising and often hilarious. — Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash
When you think of what a voice programmed by artificial intelligence would sound like, you might picture something robotic and stilted, with a staccato cadence incapable of capturing the inflections, speed and emotion required to sound even somewhat human. But this is 2024, and the robots have gotten a serious upgrade. Now they can imitate voices, accents and intonation to an almost creepy degree – for better or worse.
ChatGPT’s new Advanced Voice Mode feature, which was released to most users of ChatGPT last week, is an audio version of the original ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence to respond to text prompts conversationally. Advanced Voice Mode works in the same way as the original but using audio; those using Advanced Voice Mode speak into the app, and the voice automatically responds. Users can choose one of nine voices, and then through conversation and text prompts, they teach those voices to talk in a way that they like.
