today OpenAI For its popular chatbot ChatGPT A new feature called "Read Aloud" was launched. This feature allows ChatGPT to read its replies in five different voices, aiming to provide users with a more convenient interactive experience. Currently, the "Read Aloud" feature is available on ChatGPT's web, iOS and Android apps.
The “Read Aloud” feature not only supports 37 languages, but can also automatically detect the language of the text and read it aloud. It is worth noting that this feature is applicable to both GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 versions of ChatGPT. This update demonstrates OpenAI’s efforts in “multimodal capabilities,” which is to give artificial intelligence models the ability to read and respond through multiple media. Interestingly, not long ago, OpenAI’s competitor Anthropic also added similar capabilities to its artificial intelligence models.
As early as September 2023, ChatGPT launched the "voice chat" feature, which allows users to talk to chatbots directly by voice without having to enter text. The "read aloud" feature launched this time allows users to choose to have ChatGPT read their text replies aloud, and can even set it as the default reply method.
On the mobile app, users can long press the text to open the "read aloud" player and play, pause or rewind. On the web, a speaker icon will be displayed below the text, and you can click it to start the read aloud function.