OpenAI Releases New Voice Models For More Natural Live Conversations
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/0452203/openai-releases-new-voice-models-for-more-natural-live-conversations
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> The company is also replacing its current Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT with GPT-Live-1 mini by default. Users of paid tiers will be able to access the larger GPT-Live-1 model. The previous model combined a speech-to-text model to transcribe speech, a large language model to generate responses, and a text-to-speech model to deliver the final answer.
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> The company said in a press briefing that the new models solve issues like interrupting users while they're talking and not having enough intelligence to answer questions. OpenAI's new models will send the query to its latest text models like GPT-5.5 for search, reasoning, or agentic capabilities while continuing the conversation.
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> OpenAI also showed that the model can stay silent for a long time and absorb the context of the conversation until it's called upon. Plus, as the new voice mode has access to newer GPT models, it can also present some information in a visual format. Other startups like Monogram, which raised $40 million in seed funding from DST and Lux Capital, are also leaning into visual responses to make assistants more interactive.
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> The company said the new voice mode in ChatGPT is designed to have longer conversations. During the briefing, ChatGPT Voice's product lead, Atty Eleti, said he has had 30- to 40-minute-long conversations with the voice feature during walks.
[1] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/openai-releases-new-voice-models-for-more-natural-live-conversations/
Gadzooks man! (Score:2)
Unless it sounds like Brian Blessed, I'm not interested.
Re: no wonder these people believe their own hype (Score:3)
I wouldn't mind talking to a phone tree if it could actually solve my problem. But since the reason I'm calling is because my problem couldn't be solved on the internet, and phone trees NEVER have capabilities that aren't on the app or website, that never happens.
Re: (Score:2)
To be fair, BOTH voices felt off. Both the phone voice and the actress voice. But the actress voice sounded faker than the phone.
It sounds like a stoner, but you can turn it off (Score:3)
You can switch back to the "Advanced" or "Standard" models by clicking on your user icon then settings, voice. There is now a drop-down list with: Live, Advanced, and Standard.
Each one is worse than the previous.
Basic:
* Good, monotone
Standard:
* Too much inflexion, uncanny.
* Knows how to pronounce foreign words in the correct accent. So you can use this to practice another language. It can fluently switch back and forth even within a sentence.
Live:
* Overly strong accents, like a young actor hamming it up.
* Doesn't get language accents right, so it is useless for language learning.
* Adds "Hmmm..." and "uh huh" and "Interesting..." as you speak. Sometimes it sounds like a Minecraft villager or Yoda thinking.
* Starts every response with boisterous exclamations and thinking sounds. "Ohhhh... Hmmm uhhhh, oh yeah that's (complex | interesting | fascinating)!"
(The text version does this too, but not nearly so hard and overdone)
I love how the technology advances, but I think OpenAI is overdoing it and the voices get cheesier and more annoying with each version. If a human being talked to me like this I would assume they are being an ass and making fun of me. Or maybe they were high?
Sesame AI (Score:2)
Sesame AI was doing this close to 2 years ago. I don't know where they are now with the model as I haven't been keeping up with it, but I played with the demo a few years ago and it was fun to chat with for a time. I'm sure openAI saw it, ripped it off and now pushing it like it is revolutionary.
[1]Sesame Demo [sesame.com]
[1] https://www.sesame.com/blog/crossing-the-uncanny-valley-of-voice#demo
Likely stolen voices (Score:2)
I would like to know which voice actors were paid to help their creepy shit.
Text regurgitation ... (Score:2)
How many times does the letter E appears in the number “seventeen", OpenAI? Count the number of times the letter R appears in the word “strawberry” OpenAI? LOL. Eliza was way more fun 25 years ago.
Warning from 60 years ago. (Score:1)
[1]Didn't work out well for the Enterprise. [youtube.com]
(Warning: clip is misogynistic. The visitor asking about the computer is from our time, by the way.)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoObsHtOSoA
Re: (Score:2)
Spock's implication was that if not tempered by men, women would speak overly sexual. The two assumptions here is that first, women need to be tempered by men, and second that left on their own they'd become sexual teases. One fluffs the male ego, the other fluffs men's sexual fantasies.
Re: (Score:2)
I don't think of that a "misogynistic", but definitely a stereotype..and a rather unrealistic one. But, I suppose, if you think "being a sexual tease" is a bad thing, you could think that.
Re: Warning from 60 years ago. (Score:4, Funny)
So you don't proofread your own comments?