ChatGPT has acquired a brand new accessibility characteristic that may be useful for visually impaired folks. The synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot by OpenAI introduced a Learn Aloud characteristic on Monday that may learn out its written responses. The brand new characteristic is a special performance from the voice chat characteristic 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 might quickly get a home-screen widget.
The brand new characteristic was introduced by the official account of OpenAI on X (previously generally known as Twitter) through a post. It mentioned, “ChatGPT can now learn responses to you. On iOS or Android, faucet and maintain the message after which faucet “Learn Aloud”. We have additionally began rolling on net – click on the “Learn Aloud” button beneath the message.” It additionally hooked up a video to demo the characteristic.
Learn Aloud is accessible for ChatGPT’s Android and iOS apps in addition to its net consumer. The characteristic has been added to each ChatGPT 4.0 which powers the ChatGPT Plus model, in addition to ChatGPT 3.5 which is accessible to entry totally free. The characteristic can learn out responses in 37 completely different languages. Nevertheless, to reply, it can 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.
Whereas it seems to be just like the voice chat characteristic, it’s a completely 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 except the dialog has ended. In distinction, with this characteristic, the mode of communication stays textual content solely, and customers can decide and select which messages to take heed to. It may be used if a consumer is busy and can’t take a look at the display to learn an extended 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 might quickly get a home-screen widget. The widget comes with shortcuts to ship textual content messages, add or ship photos, voice question, or begin a voice chat.
