I Used ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode. It’s Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

I leave ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on while writing this article as an ambient AI companion. While testing Advanced Voice Mode as part of the early alpha, my interactions with ChatGPT’s new audio feature were entertaining, messy, and surprisingly varied, though it’s worth noting that the features I had access to were only half of what OpenAI demonstrated when it launched the GPT-4o model in May. Here’s what you need to know about the larger rollout of Advanced Voice Mode, and my first impressions of ChatGPT’s new voice feature, to help you get started. OpenAI released an audio-only Advanced Voice Mode to some ChatGPT Plus users at the end of July, and the alpha group still seems relatively small. My First Impressions of ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode Within the very first hour of speaking with it, I learned that I love interrupting ChatGPT.