OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT now has the ability to read responses aloud, enabling a hands-free experience.
For example, it could read the ingredients for a recipe out loud so you can wander around the kitchen while listening, instead of having to carry your phone with you and read from a screen.
On iOS and Android, you can tap and hold on a ChatGPT response and you’ll see an option to “Read Aloud”. To access this feature on the web, tap the new speaker icon that now appears below the message. Users can set it to automatically read aloud all their future messages in a particular conversation as well.
Users can also request a pause, fast forward or rewind and can change the preferred voice of the reader.
The feature is now available on iOS and Android, and has started rolling out on the web.
In addition, OpenAI has updated the voice-to-text icon to the microphone, which it believes will help users find the option more easily.