OpenAI Rolls Out Advanced Voice Feature to All ChatGPT Plus and Team Subscribers

OpenAI rolled out the Advanced Voice Model for audio interactions with the AI assistant ChatGPT to all members of the ChatGPT Plus and Team subscriptions. Users will be able to try the feature in the upcoming days.

“Advanced Voice is rolling out to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week,” shared the company in its X account—recently hacked for a cryptocurrency scam— this Tuesday. “While you’ve been patiently waiting, we’ve added Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents.”

To demonstrate how the voice feature can be used, the startup showed a video of a woman asking the AI assistant to apologize to her grandmother for being late in Mandarin.

Advanced Voice is rolling out to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week.

While you’ve been patiently waiting, we’ve added Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents.

It can also say “Sorry I’m late” in over 50 languages. pic.twitter.com/APOqqhXtDg

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) September 24, 2024

OpenAI released the feature for the first time in July, but only for selected ChatGPT Plus subscribers, this time, audio interactions have been expanded to all members. However, the company clarified that “Advanced Voice is not yet available in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.”

Team or Plus users in the rest of the regions will get a notification after updating the latest version and will get access to the new feature, and select the preferred voice.

This voice feature has been controversial since its announcement earlier this year when OpenAI first introduced the GPT-4o model because the actress Scarlett Johansson complained about the voice “Sky” due to the resemblance to her voice.

The voice Sky has been removed by OpenAI and the company just added five new voices: Vale, Spruce, Arbor, Maple, and Sol.

According to CNBC, the voice feature is not unlimited, after a few minutes of use, there’s a message with the remaining minutes for the day. OpenAI hasn’t shared details of the daily limit yet.