OpenAI Teases New Voice Engine, Stops Short of Full Release
Clips showcasing the text-to-voice AI model, Voice Engine, demonstrated "emotive and realistic voices"
OpenAI has provided a glimpse of its new text-to-audio AI model Voice Engine, but has stopped short of releasing it.
Voice Engine can turn text inputs into natural-sounding speech. The model can also take input in one language, such as English, and return audio in another language, such as Spanish.
OpenAI showcased 15-second generations in a blog post, touting that its model can “create emotive and realistic voices.”
The company has been working on Voice Engine since late 2022 and has used it to power preset voices available in its text-to-speech API as well as ChatGPT’s Voice functionality.
The model is not yet being published as OpenAI says it’s exercising caution due to concerns about potential misuse.