You can now talk to ChatGPT, and it will answer you

You can now talk out loud to ChatGPT and hear the chatbot, which AI drives, answer back.

The company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced on Monday that it is adding new features, including the ability for users to talk back and forth with ChatGPT using their voices.

In a blog post on Monday, OpenAI hinted that this new tool could be used to "ask your family for a bedtime story or settle a dinner table debate."

OpenAI's new voice tools are similar to those that Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri voice assistants already have.

In an OpenAI demonstration of the new update, a user asks ChatGPT to make up a story about "Larry, the super-duper sunflower hedgehog." The robot can tell a story out loud in a voice that sounds like a person's. It can also answer questions like "What did his house look like?" and "Who is his best friend?"

In the blog post, Open AI said that ChatGPT's voice feature is "powered by a new text-to-speech model that can make human-sounding audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech." The company also said it worked with professional voice actors to develop the chatbot's five different sounds.

On Monday, OpenAI announced that it is releasing a new tool that will let the bot answer questions with images. For example, you can take a picture of what is in your fridge and ask ChatGPT to help you make a meal plan based on what you already have. Also, the company said you can use the app's "drawing tool" to tell the chatbot to look at a specific part of a picture.

Within the next two weeks, people who pay for ChatGPT's Plus and Enterprise services will be able to use the new tools in the app (Subscriptions to the Plus service are $20 a month, and its Enterprise service is currently only offered to business clients).

The changes from OpenAI come when the tech industry is in the middle of an AI arms race. This race was started by the public release of ChatGPT at the end of last year. In the past few weeks, tech giants have been racing to release new versions of their primary goods that add more AI-powered tools. Google announced last week that its rival to ChatGPT, Bard, would be getting several changes. Also, last week, Amazon said it would add generative AI to its Alexa voice helper in an upcoming update.