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Day 06: OpenAI unveils Advanced Voice and Santa Mode in ChatGPT
This ushers in a new era of AI transforming a tedious process into an engaging and interactive experience.

By Kumar Harshit

on December 13, 2024

OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, unveils some amazing features that contribute to engagement and interaction on the Platform. It unveiled two things in its Day 06 launch: Advanced Voice and Santa Mode. With advanced mode, it introduced features like screen sharing, video chat, and real-time audio responses. 

Santa feature, on the other hand, is a personal Santa available in ChatGPT to Voice Chat in real-time while it imitates the voice and qualities of a Santa to engage the user throughout. 

Advanced voice 

With Advanced voice, OpenAI has gone all out in making its platform best suit engagement and the process of interaction with a machine becomes much more dialectic and real. This feature enables a user to video chat with ChatGPT models and asks it to help him out while the model recipes with voice command in real-time, making the entire process original and in the moment.  The model also has good learning capacity as it remembers the people whom it has met at the beginning of the session. 

Let's make Coffee 

As the OpenAI team showcased the Advanced Voice feature, they went on to ask ChatGPT to make filter coffee by showing it the equipment like the kettle, filter paper, and dripper. ChatGPT guided them through the entire process of making coffee and also kept the interaction engaging. 

This brings an entirely new era of AI to face reveal that can prove to be a game-changing and defining moment for the AI industry and the users as this would make a loner and cumbersome process engaging and interactive, altogether. 

Let’s frame an Email reply 

Bygones are the days of copy and pasting, as GPT can now read into your screens with all new additions in the Advanced Voice feature enabling a user to share their screen and ask ChatGPT to generate a reply for the given context. Hence the future of AI and the agentic era is unfolding gradually as AI companies get more deeper and practical with their approach. 

The model has been trained in over 50 languages making it an emotional and interactive experience. 

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 Feeling low, Santa to your rescue 

The company has also unveiled a Santa feature enabling users to talk to Santa in real-time, adding more cheers to the Christmas joy. The feature imitates Santa in its voice and approach. It will be available in the GPT models till the last of this month and return to the North Pole. 

Availability 

The video and Screen Share feature is ready to be available in ChatGPT apps while the company is trying to make the feature available to all team users and most plus and pro subscribers in a week’s time. 

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