New voice infrastructure for ChatGPT comes to Mac and Windows

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OpenAI, one of the most important names in the field of artificial intelligence, has started to use ChatGPT’s new voice infrastructure in Windows and Mac applications.

OpenAI has made very impressive progress for ChatGPT in recent months. “Voice Mode” made the introduction. In this new audio infrastructure, which offers a very natural communication, it has also been shown that ChatGPT can see and perceive the environment with the phone camera. A system that can detect a given software code, provide information about the code, and chat by answering questions about the code. Since it was possible to interrupt voice communication, it created the feeling of actually talking to a human. The new voice infrastructure, which is capable of real-time translation and is very good at this, has now been moved to desktop applications after mobile. To activate the infrastructure, it is sufficient to upgrade the desktop applications to the latest version. OpenAI, An important warning was made about this new infrastructure last month. had done. The company announced that ChatGPT’s new voice infrastructure “emotional addiction” He warned that it could. The company is right in this warning because the new infrastructure has a sound that we can call very natural or realistic. Because of this, single people are very likely to form an emotional bond with the chatbot. And As you can imagine, this has serious social risks.

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OpenAI did not please Scarlett Johansson with this new voice infrastructure. The company made a post in the past months: “Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson” he said. Then the incident escalated. Where exactly did this statement come from? Assistant voice used in the new generation voice communication infrastructure prepared for ChatGPT, It was directly compared to Scarlett Johansson’s voice in the 2013 movie “Her”. Johansson voiced a digital assistant in that notable film, and it was thought that OpenAI copied this voice. In fact, many comparison videos and special news were shared for this purpose. Later, OpenAI, wanting to clarify this, created a computer system called “Sky”. He stated that this voice was not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson, but still decided to stop using the voice.

As reported by the company, it is in the new generation voice communication infrastructure prepared for ChatGPT. Five different sounds are offered: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.. In this regard, “Each of the five different voices you hear was carefully selected after an extensive five-month process with the participation of professional voice actors, talent agencies, casting directors and industry consultants.” The company said, He stated that they evaluated 400 different applications to choose five different voices.

About the process, “We believe that AI assistants’ voices should not deliberately imitate the voices of celebrities. In this context, Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson, It belongs to a different professional actor using his natural speaking voice. “We cannot share the names of our voice actors to protect their privacy.” The company said, This issue remained on the agenda for a long time.

Because Scarlett Johansson was personally involved in the process and the famous actress made important statements. did. Johansson first introduced OpenAI, even though it didn’t explicitly allow it. He accused her of copying his voice for one of his voice assistants on ChatGPT. ““Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the ChatGPT 4.0 system.” said Johansson, He also said that he rejected the offer due to personal reasons..

On top of all this, when you saw the demo made by OpenAI Johansson said she was shocked, angry and couldn’t believe the similarity of voice.Sam Altman contacted his representative two days before introducing GPT-4o and He wanted him to rethink the sound issue.but still crashes the system before it has a chance to respond. He said he launched it with a similar voice.

Making another statement on this subject, OpenAI said: “We had already chosen a voice actor for Sky’s voice before we even reached out to Johansson. However, out of respect for Johansson, we have stopped using Sky’s voice in our products. We apologize to Johansson for not being able to communicate better.” he said.



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