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Voice Mode

Real-time spoken conversation capability in AI assistants.

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Definition

Voice mode enables natural spoken conversations with AI, combining speech recognition, language understanding, and speech synthesis.

  • **Architecture:**
  • Traditional: Speech-to-text → LLM → Text-to-speech
  • End-to-end: Native audio understanding (GPT-4o)

GPT-4o Innovation: - Single multimodal model - Sub-200ms latency - Natural interruptions - Emotion and tone awareness - Real-time translation

Capabilities: - Natural conversation flow - Interruption handling - Emotion detection - Multiple languages - Voice customization

Examples

Having a real-time conversation with ChatGPT Voice about your day while driving.

Related Terms

Whisper

OpenAI's speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of audio.

Multimodal AI

AI systems that can understand and generate multiple types of content like text, images, audio, and video.

Text-to-Speech (TTS)

AI technology that converts written text into natural-sounding spoken audio.

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