[HN Gopher] ChatGPT Voice for All Free Users Announced (By Greg ...
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       ChatGPT Voice for All Free Users Announced (By Greg Brockman)
        
       Author : Jimmc414
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2023-11-21 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | squigz wrote:
       | Announced by the OpenAI account, and retweeted by Brockman
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       | https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1727065166188274145
        
       | dizzydes wrote:
       | I'll ask the obvious question - does this make it more likely
       | they're rejoining OAI?
        
         | 15457345234 wrote:
         | It's just a retweet. Probably just a reflex action.
        
         | thecosas wrote:
         | I think it's just him acknowledging his team's (at least until
         | very recently) likely months long efforts to have this ready to
         | go live.
        
       | SirMaster wrote:
       | Does that example really work?
       | 
       | It's suggesting to ask it where to order 195 pizzas from.
       | 
       | Does it have access to active business records like that?
        
         | cypherpunks01 wrote:
         | They re-enabled browsing access, so I believe it has the
         | ability to search Bing again now.
        
         | omneity wrote:
         | I'm working on making it possible to feed LLMs live data from
         | websites. It is challenging because injecting webpages into LLM
         | prompts directly has a mixed result, especially if there's a
         | smidge of ambiguity or complexity in the webpage HTML, so part
         | of my work is on automatic methods to economically prune,
         | format and feed web data to LLM RAG pipelines.
         | 
         | You can follow my progress on twitter if you're interested (I
         | tweet about other things, don't expect LLM/Data stuff only :)
         | 
         | https://twitter.com/omarkamali
         | 
         | https://twitter.com/themonitoro
        
       | Tycho wrote:
       | I enjoy using the voice mode to learn about subjects when I'm
       | driving.
        
       | atlasunshrugged wrote:
       | I just tried it out and I have to say I am blown away. I've never
       | been someone who likes the voice capabilities (tried Siri once or
       | twice, hated it) for just about any service as I can type pretty
       | quickly but this is intelligent enough that I can have an
       | unstructured conversation and still get to the results I want
       | quickly. Very impressive.
        
         | smusamashah wrote:
         | I feel blown away and creeped out at the same time. It sounds
         | so natural that's it's creepy. Only question I have now is that
         | is audio being streamed or generated on device.
        
       | lkozloff wrote:
       | Interesting - this was actually a feature that got me to convert.
       | I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses
       | as I collect my thoughts and speak, but overall it's been great.
       | 
       | I've had some interesting discussions and it's helped me
       | structure some thoughts by asking questions and follow-ups, then
       | summarizing our conversation... all while I'm on a walk.
       | 
       | One fun thing I did with my family was have it do an interactive
       | adventure story starring us. We had an adventure, and then used
       | the built in DALL-E to generate images of scenes from our
       | adventure.
        
         | yeck wrote:
         | Oh, that's sounds like it could be a lot of fun. Thanks for
         | sharing. I'll remember that for when my little one is a bit
         | older :)
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | Wow I just tried the app with voice and the quality is amazing.
       | It felt creepy. It is not a person I was talking to but the
       | response time and quality is so good and I can't help myself but
       | think I am talking to a real person. It is eerie.
       | 
       | Edit: Based on the response time, I don't understand where the
       | audio is being generated, is it local?
        
       | charlie0 wrote:
       | Will this be available on the browser version?
        
       | coolandsmartrr wrote:
       | I'm wondering which part of this link I should focus on: (1)
       | ChatGPT Voice is now free for all users (2) Greg Brockman is
       | retweeting an announcement from a company he left
        
         | m463 wrote:
         | Maybe it is Greg_Brockman_30T_fp16.gguf?
        
       | ilaksh wrote:
       | I am wondering if this is kind of like an enjoy it while OpenAI
       | still exists thing.
       | 
       | I assume there will be a MS ChatGPT if OpenAI folds though. Or
       | just Bing.
        
       | ancorevard wrote:
       | Got to love the builders. Even the EA decels can't stop them.
        
       | ldbooth wrote:
       | Seems like the service is down. Maybe this is the cause.
        
       | 1f60c wrote:
       | The reference to [OpenAI's] exact number of employees is
       | interesting in context.
        
       | jordanpg wrote:
       | I just wish it was a little bit faster. When this reaches
       | imperceptible levels of latency, the future will be here.
        
       | Mandelmus wrote:
       | Can somebody who knows their stuff about voice synthesis explain
       | to me why chatGPT sounds like it's speaking German with an
       | American accent when I speak to it in German? It's really
       | surprising how believably it sounds like a native American-
       | speaker speaking excellent, just not accent-free, German.
       | 
       | I would imagine that voice synthesis models would somehow be
       | trained on data from native speakers, so why the accent?
        
       | ademeure wrote:
       | Am I the only one who doesn't like these specific voices? The
       | quality is incredible, but they feel too
       | cheery/enthusiastic/casual and it just gets annoying after a
       | while.
       | 
       | I made an iOS shortcut a while ago that uses Siri with the
       | ChatGPT app (it has iOS shortcut bindings) and despite Siri being
       | a useless pile of junk compared to this, I actually prefer Siri's
       | voice to this in some ways, because it doesn't feel so over the
       | top.
       | 
       | Maybe this is partly because of different cultural expectations
       | between the USA and Europe? Or maybe I'm just being too cynical
       | and ChatGPT really is that happy talking with me!...
        
       | einpoklum wrote:
       | ChatGPT - yet another mechanism to mine data from you.
        
       | whalesalad wrote:
       | This is going to make me order a pizza tonight, fml.
        
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