OpenAI announced that the release of its highly anticipated Voice Mode feature will be delayed. A small group of ChatGPT Plus users will receive the feature a month later than the promised June deadline, while all Plus users will be able to access it in the fall.
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT’s enhanced voice mode can respond to users with emotions and nonverbal cues to facilitate a more natural conversation. The enhanced voice mode feature was demonstrated during OpenAI’s Spring event.
The AI company, led by CEO Sam Altman, said it still needs a month to be ready to launch and some issues are still being resolved.
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“For example, we are improving the model’s ability to detect and reject certain content. We are also working to improve the user experience and prepare our infrastructure to scale to millions of users while maintaining real-time responses,” OpenAI said in a post on X.
However, some users of the social media platform reacted with anger and disappointment, saying they had upgraded their ChatGPT tier to access the voice mode over the summer.
In a separate post, OpenAI announced that the ChatGPT desktop app was available for Apple’s macOS users. Users can use keyboard shortcuts to leverage the chatbot’s capabilities and speed up tasks on their desktop.
However, those who use ChatGPT should keep in mind that AI chatbots are still very experimental and can sometimes make mistakes or provide inaccurate answers.
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