Can I use Voice in ChatGPT?

July 4, 2023

Why will be voice the next stage with ChatGTP?


This article summarizes interesting facts about voice I encountered during my journey. It started in 2018 with these facts. By then, the voice interfaces were not that mature though!



  • 20% of Swiss regularly use voice-based assistants, preferably on Smartphones but intend to buy a smart speaker (Statista 2018/2019)
  • Siri, Google Assistant and then Alexa are the most used assistants in Swiss and Austrian households (McSchindler 2019, IAB Austria Integral 2019)
  • 60% of Germans use voice assistants, 30% intensively. Google and Amazon are market leaders. (Splendid Research 2019)
  • A 40 bn. $ US market is expected for voice-based smart personal assistants (USA Today 2018)
  • 21 % of US shoppers already use voicebots (Mastercard 2018)


But how has this changed from 2018 to 2022, and how will it evolve in the future?

 

What about About Voice and Large Language Models

  • When you look at ChatGPT from a user perspective you can use iOS and Android Configurations to get a so called "voice-input" option. Behind OpenAI's ChatGPT is Whisper, a highly sophisticated Speech model that can be also used as an API for developers since
  • How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race with large language models coming that are more powerful
  • Google has announced a new Universal Speech Model (USM) here: speech models that includes two billion parameters that have been trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text. Currently, the model is based on ~ 300 languages and already included in Youtube.
  • Google's Bard enabled 40 languages in July 2023. You can try out speaking to Bard here (now also open for Switzerland):
  • Recent announcement in June 2023 says PaLM is a game changer in terms of speech: https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/06/23/google-researchers-introduce-audiopalm-a-game-changer-in-speech-technology-a-new-large-language-model-that-listens-speaks-and-translates-with-unprecedented-accuracy/




How I can use Voice in ChatGPT?

How to use Siri with the ChatGPT iOS app?


Simply trigger Siri (by using the Home button or saying "Hi Siri") and either, "Ask ChatGPT", "Send a question to ChatGPT", "Query ChatGPT", or "Tell ChatGPT" to ask a question to the ChatGPT iOS app.


How can I activate voice recording when using ChatGPT?


You can do this via keyboard activation for android:


  1. Activate voice typing: Ensure that Gboard is set as your active keyboard. ...
  2. Access the chat interface: Open the ChatGPT app on your Android device and tap on the prompt input box. ...
  3. Initiate voice typing: On the Gboard keyboard, locate and tap the microphone icon.


Find out more here.


For iOS there's a simple easy video on that:


  1. Download the official OpenAI app from the store
  2. Tab on the waves below near the entry field where you type your query



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