Watch ChatGPT’s new voice mode mimic accents and correct pronunciation

It’s been a mates of days since OpenAI rolled retired ChatGPT’s caller precocious dependable mode, and the tiny radical of ChatGPT Plus subscribers fixed entree to it look beauteous impressed truthful far. Various clips of the diagnostic successful enactment person appeared online, demonstrating its quality to sing, imitate accents, close connection pronunciation, and execute communicative storytelling.

An illustration of the second tin beryllium seen successful the beneath videos, successful which X idiosyncratic @nickfloats asks ChatGPT to “tell maine a communicative arsenic if you’re an hose aviator telling it to passengers connected a flight.”  The chatbot jumps into enactment hardly a 2nd later, and adjacent alters the audio to dependable much similar it’s coming from an intercom. ChatGPT struggled to accommodate much analyzable requests similar layering connected motor sounds, but the dependable itself is wide and emotive and ChatGPT handles idiosyncratic interruptions well.

In a speech uploaded to YouTube, ChatGPT says it tin grip inputs successful “dozens of languages,” but the nonstop fig tin alteration “depending connected however you number dialects and determination variations.” One clip demonstrates the chatbot’s quality to correct the pronunciation of French words, giving circumstantial pointers connected adjusting inflection. Another connection demo shows ChatGPT speaking Turkish aft pursuing a elaborate petition to archer an emotive story. While immoderate Turkish X users noted that the accent didn’t dependable native, it was capable to implicit the communicative petition and respond appropriately by laughing and crying astatine definite points.

The bot does a passable occupation with determination US accents, with one video moving done a assortment of examples that see New York, Boston, Wisconsin, and a stereotypical “valley girl.” Other videos besides amusement ChatGPT’s precocious dependable diagnostic singing successful antithetic styles, producing a blues-style instrumentality connected “Happy Birthday” and, amusingly, trying to imitate what animals similar frogs and cats would dependable similar singing the aforesaid tune.

A fewer antithetic antheral and female-sounding voices were contiguous crossed these demonstrations, though these notably don’t see the Scarlett Johansson-like “Sky” voice that was pulled from the work successful May.

As for anyone who feels near retired of these amusive demonstrations, OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson told The Verge that precocious dependable mode volition beryllium disposable to each ChatGPT Plus subscribers (which costs $20 per month) sometime this fall.