ChatGPT has acquired a brand new accessibility function that may be useful for visually impaired folks. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot by OpenAI introduced a Read Aloud function on Monday that may learn out its written responses. The new function is a unique performance from the voice chat function that was launched in September 2023 and makes use of the AI mannequin’s multimodal capabilities. Notably, an earlier report additionally revealed that the Android app model of the chatbot may quickly get a home-screen widget.
The new function was introduced by the official account of OpenAI on X (previously often called Twitter) through a submit. It mentioned, “ChatGPT can now read responses to you. On iOS or Android, tap and hold the message and then tap “Read Aloud”. We’ve additionally began rolling on net – click on the “Read Aloud” button beneath the message.” It additionally hooked up a video to demo the function.
Read Aloud is out there for ChatGPT’s Android and iOS apps in addition to its net shopper. The function has been added to each ChatGPT 4.0 which powers the ChatGPT Plus model, in addition to ChatGPT 3.5 which is out there to entry totally free. The function can learn out responses in 37 totally different languages. However, to reply, it would robotically detect the language of the textual content it’s producing. So, if a response was generated in English, the verbal response would even be in English.
While it seems to be much like the voice chat function, it’s a totally different use case of the text-to-speech performance. In voice chat, customers can solely verbally communicate and take heed to the responses, and can’t see the textual content until the dialog has ended. In distinction, with this function, the mode of communication stays textual content solely, and customers can decide and select which messages to take heed to. It can be utilized if a person is busy and can’t take a look at the display screen to learn a protracted response, or the visually impaired who’re unable to learn in a given second.
OpenAI seems to be engaged on a number of new options. An earlier report claimed that the Android app of the chatbot may quickly get a home-screen widget. The widget comes with shortcuts to ship textual content messages, add or ship photographs, voice question, or begin a voice chat.
