OpenAI Postpones New Voice Assistant to Fix Safety Concerns

OpenAI Voice Assistant Delay: OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, said it was delaying the release of its “Voice Mode” feature by a month to July because of technical issues.

This delay is to ensure the feature can safely and effectively process requests from users. 

OpenAI Voice Assistant Delay

The company revealed that the new feature would not be available to a group of ChatGPT Plus users later this month as originally planned.

This was revealed on Tuesday. According to the company, it needs one more month to reach its “high safety and reliability” standards.

The company said on X, “We’re sharing an update on the advanced Voice Mode we demoed during our Spring Update, which we remain very excited about.”

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“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.”

“We’re also working on improving the user experience and preparing our infrastructure to scale to millions while maintaining real-time responses.”  

OpenAI Upgrades Sports Several Improvements

OpenAI previously unveiled its new AI system GPT-4o in May. The new upgrade includes several new features including an advanced version of its existing voice mode. This advanced version makes it capable of realistic voice conversation and of reasoning “across audio, vision, and text in real time”. 

This upgrade will have several improvements such as allowing users to have human-like natural spoken communications with computers.

This includes a fast response time (an average of 320 milliseconds against GPT-4’s 5.4 seconds), and better perception of tones, background noises, and emotions.