Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman — who, so far as we’re conscious, isn’t at the moment employed at OpenAI in any capability — is posting updates about OpenAI products on X, together with one at present about ChatGPT’s voice narration function being made accessible to all ChatGPT customers.
Perhaps Brockman’s merely expressing pleasure in his colleagues’ work. Perhaps the job supply from Microsoft fell by. Perhaps negotiations with OpenAI’s board of administrators to convey him and Sam Altman — who was OpenAI’s CEO till Friday, when the board abruptly sacked him — again are additional alongside than was reported. (Brockman resigned in protest Friday night.) Who is aware of? At this stage in chaotic OpenAI saga, it’s anybody’s guess.
OpenAI’s existential crises apart, the aforementioned voice function for ChatGPT — which was introduced in September and started rolling out to premium subscribers of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, just a few weeks in the past — is powered by a text-to-speech mannequin that may generate human-like voices from textual content and just some seconds of sampled speech. OpenAI mentioned that it teamed up with established voice actors to create 5 completely different voices, with its open supply Whisper speech recognition system used to transcribe verbal utterances into textual content.
To activate the voice function, customers can head to the settings menu within the Android or iOS ChatGPT apps and faucet the “headphones” icon.