In May, when OpenAI first demoed an eerily realistic, nearly real-time “advanced voice mode” for its AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT, the company said that the feature would roll out to paying ChatGPT users within a few weeks. Months later, OpenAI says that it needs more time. In a post on OpenAI’s official Discord server, OpenAI says that it had planned to start rolling out advanced Voice Mode in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but that lingering issues forced it to postpone the launch to sometime in July. “For example, we’re improving the model’s ability to detect and refuse certain content,” OpenAI writes. “We’re also working on improving the user experience and preparing our infrastructure to scale to millions while maintaining real-time responses. As part of our iterative deployment strategy, we’ll start the alpha with a small group of users to gather feedback and expand based on what we learn.” Advanced Voice Mode might not launch for all ChatGPT Plus customers until the fall, OpenAI says, depending on whether it meets certain internal safety and reliability checks. The delay will not, however, affect the rollout of the new video and screen sharing capabilities demoed separately during OpenAI’s spring press event. Those capabilities include solving math problems given a picture of the problem, and explaining various settings menus on a device. They’re designed to work across ChatGPT on smartphones as well as desktop clients, like the app for macOS, which became available to all ChatGPT users earlier today.

Full report : OpenAI delays ChatGPT voice mode to address safety issues.