Undoubtedly, one of the most anticipated features by ChatGPT Plus users It is the one that surprised many of us the most last May, when the presentation of GPT-4o, the latest generative model of OpenAI took place, and which from the first moment made it clear that it would mean before and after. in ChatGPT, thanks to its multimodal capabilities (omnimodal, in the technology definition), as well as its improvements in performance and response quality.

If you saw that presentation or read what we told you about it, you’ll remember that if there was anything that left us speechless, it was the moment when, after Mira Murati (CTO of OpenAI) finished describing the main news, the ChatGPT test wheel started with this model and We could hear for the first time what the voice interactions will be like with this new model. Just to give you some context if you don’t know what I’m talking about, the comparison to OS from the movie Her was immediate.

While one of the surprises of the presentation was the announcement that free OpenAI chatbot accounts would receive much of what was on display that day, word also quickly began to spread that this voice mode would be exclusive, at least initially. , on ChatGPT Plus, the paid version of this tool. And it’s understandable, because it aims to be somewhat demanding on computing power and also be an excellent element to attract more users to subscribe to the chatbot’s payment method.

It seems like the wait is almost over, and it is Sam Altman recently confirmed that the voice feature will start coming to ChatGPT Plus this week (the message said “next week” and the message is from the end of last week). This is a tweet that has gone somewhat unnoticed because it is a response that the CEO of OpenAI gave to a user who asked him about it, in response to a tweet in which Altman announced SearchGPT.

So far yes, we are talking about it relatively limited deployment, and this may be quite different from what we saw in the presentation (although it is believed that this was the actual working of the feature back in May), and that in the said report it is stated that the version that will begin to reach users these days, ChatGPT Plus is alpha, so there’s still work to be done. However, if what will eventually arrive is what we’ve seen, and it’s still in development, it’s scary to imagine what it will be capable of when it reaches the maturity of its first final version.