OpenAI postpones launch of “voice mode” to July

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday (25) that it has delayed the launch of its “voice mode” feature by a month, until July, due to technical problems.

The company had originally planned to roll out the realistic voice chat experience to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but said it needs more time to reach the desired rollout standard.

“For example, we are improving the model’s ability to detect and reject certain content. We are also working on improving the user experience and preparing our infrastructure to scale to millions of users while maintaining real-time responses,” OpenAI said in a post on Platform X.

The new audio features will allow users to chat with ChatGPT, get responses in real-time without delay, and interrupt ChatGPT while the machine is speaking — two realistic conversational features that are considered challenging for AI voice assistants.

We’re sharing an update on the advanced Voice Mode we demoed during our Spring Update, which we remain very excited about:

We had planned to start rolling this out in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but need one more month to reach our bar to launch.…

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 25, 2024

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*With reporting by Juby Babu, in Mexico City