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‘Uncanny’: ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode is blowing minds

Carl Franzen

VENTUREBEAT

Aug 1, 2024

It was criticized by Scarlett Johansson. It was delayed by more than a month. And now that it’s finally here, only a select few customers in an “alpha” group have access to the new ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode from OpenAI, a more naturalistic, human-like audio conversational mode for the hit chatbot available through the official ChatGPT app for iOS and Android.

Yet, already, just days after the first alpha testers got their hands on ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode, people are posting examples of it engaging in fantastically expressive and impressive utterances, impersonating Looney Toons characters and counting so fast it runs out of “breath” just like a human would.

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Here are some of the more interesting examples we’ve come across shared by initial alpha users on X, with the caveat that we ourselves don’t have access to it yet so can’t verify the authenticity.