ChatGPT could add 8 new voices with more realistic animal sounds to give you a hassle-free virtual pet

Quack, quack, woof?

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ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode hasn’t even been out for very long, yetOpenAIcould be set to add eight more voices to the incredible technology that lets you naturally converse with artificial intelligence.

These newChatGPTvoices offer a range of new styles that could add to the four preset voices: Juniper, Ember, Cove, and Breeze currently available.Advanced Voice Modegives you the most humanly possible ChatGPT experience similar toGoogle’s Gemini Liveon the newPixel 9smartphones.

Originally reported byTestingCatalog, eight new voices were found in recent reverse engineering reports. The voices, called Fathom, Glimmer, Harp, Maple, Orbit, Rainbow, Reef, Ridge, and Vale, bring new abilities to express sounds more naturally, like dog barks.

While these voices are linked to ChatGPT’s text-to-speech, their impressive nature makes them the perfect fit to expand on Advanced Voice Mode’s options. As it stands these new voices aren’t currently accessible but you can hear what they sound like thanks to Tibor Blaho on X.

Preview of the new ChatGPT voices (animal sounds)h/t to @stevelizcano https://t.co/hkT7wMU4VF pic.twitter.com/5Tre8eeKqwSeptember 1, 2024

OpenAI’s hardware shift?

OpenAIcould be working on more than just ChatGPT voices, however, with a report suggesting the company may enter the hardware market. Taiwanese websiteUnited Daily Newsclaims OpenAI has been in talks with TSMC, the chip manufacturer known for its work with Apple on thebest iPhones. The source of the news has an unknown track record for chipset scoops, so this is still currently pure speculation.

The rumor implies that OpenAI wants to produce its own custom AI chipset similar toApple’s Neural Engines and other Neural Processing Units. The custom chip would be based on TSMC’s A16 Angstrom process which Apple could use in the future potentially hinting at future collaborations between the companies. Apple will integrate ChatGPT on iPhones as part of the next generation of Siri, powered byApple Intelligence. iPhone users will be able to send prompts to OpenAI’s servers should they choose to do so. This allows the iPhone to not only benefit from Apple Intelligence on device but also from ChatGPT’s incredible abilities.

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John-Anthony Disotto is TechRadar’s Senior Writer, AI, ensuring you get the latest information on Tech’s biggest buzzword. An expert in Apple, he was previously iMore’s How To Editor and has a monthly column in MacFormat. Living in Scotland, where he worked for Apple as a technician focused on iOS and iPhone repairs at the Genius Bar, John-Anthony has used the Apple ecosystem for over a decade and is an award-winning journalist with years of experience in editorial.

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