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How to Stop ChatGPT’s Voice Feature From Interrupting You

ChatGPT’s conversation tools are fantastic—when the chatbot isn’t constantly talking over you. Try these tips for a better AI audio experience.

I was recently waiting for my nails to dry and didn’t want to smudge the paint, when it dawned on me that this would be the perfect opportunity to test some voice-only artificial intelligence features. Silicon Valley car owners are having long conversations with ChatGPT as they drive around, and I wanted to try chatting hands-free before meeting with two OpenAI product leads later that day. Another startup, Hume, recently launched a preview of emotion-centered software, called the Empathic Voice Interface, that attempts to match the AI’s emotional outputs to the tone it detects in your vocal prompts; if you’re acting silly or somber, it switches moods to mirror yours.

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