This is the only video I could find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeyQmR28l0

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Full tweet:

"We’re starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions.

Users in this alpha will receive an email with instructions and a message in their mobile app. We'll continue to add more people on a rolling basis and plan for everyone on Plus to have access in the fall. As previously mentioned, video and screen sharing capabilities will launch at a later date.

Since we first demoed advanced Voice Mode, we’ve been working to reinforce the safety and quality of voice conversations as we prepare to bring this frontier technology to millions of people.

We tested GPT-4o's voice capabilities with 100+ external red teamers across 45 languages. To protect people's privacy, we've trained the model to only speak in the four preset voices, and we built systems to block outputs that differ from those voices. We've also implemented guardrails to block requests for violent or copyrighted content.

Learnings from this alpha will help us make the Advanced Voice experience safer and more enjoyable for everyone. We plan to share a detailed report on GPT-4o’s capabilities, limitations, and safety evaluations in early August."

Not a specialist here, but my understanding is that whether a service is or not anticompetitive is subject to how its market is structured. So e.g. if you're not a dominant market player then it "is" not anticompetitive ("is" in a pragmatic way, i.e. you will not be prosecuted), whereas if you are disrupting the market it is.

All that to say that currently the market for voice assistants is nascent. No one has paid (directly) for Siri or Ok-google, and amazon can also make the case that you don't pay for Alexa, you pay for the device.

Now that OpenAI has a better service, that is also unbundled from hardware, and understandably people might want to substitute Siri, then iOS only offering Siri can start to be considered anticompetitive.

The things a user is able to do with a locked iOS device are so useless and going away with new updates that I've given up. I don't think a different voice module does anything here if it gets the same $swearword 'direct access' Siri has now.

For example:

1. Siri can run Shazam/Music Recognition on a locked phone, but has no Shortcut/Automation ability to copy over the song info to a native note, which is as simple as: 'Run Recognize Music; delay; Create note with $Title - $Artist in $Notebook; dismiss Siri; Stop.' If I try telling Siri to run this Shortcut, it asks me to unlock the phone. The Shortcut has 'Allow Running When Locked' set to ON. I guess Siri is limited in one of two ways: it is either unable to access Shortcuts or it can't run Music Recognition. The latter would be bonkers, since it can do that natively by me saying 'Shazam', and the former simply disrespects my settings and gives me no way of making it work.

There used to be a workaround for this: you'd first enable Voice Control (an accessibility feature that's different from Siri, I guess), tell Siri to turn Voice Control on, call it out and tell it to run the Shortcut. It runs, but asks for a passcode as soon as it has to open the Notes app. Useless.

2. I can't start a voice recording without unlocking my phone, while I am able to launch the Camera app and start a video recording, which makes no sense to me.

3. I can't turn Location Services off without unlocking, which might be one of those instances where Apple thinks it knows better (i.e. the phone's stolen or I get kidnapped and the perpetrators can't turn location off as easily), but my default is having it off and using location only when I need it (e.g., navigating in an unfamiliar location, being lost, and... that's about it).

They will just invent some arguments why none of this is possible due to their _amazing_ security model.

You had the standard voice mode which is free, this feature is the advanced voice mode.

Be aware that there's another voice mode (the "headphones") that have been around for a while.

Can it integrate with mail, messages, calendar, reminders, notes, journal, etc. the same way Siri can? Otherwise it seems like a competitor to Alexa or Google Assistant at best.

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But didn’t Apple and openAI ink a deal recently?