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title: "\"It feels like AI from the movies\""
description: While earlier versions of ChatGPT's voice mode featured a noticeable lag, GPT-4o does voice chats in a speed similar to real-time human conversation.
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# ["It feels like AI from the movies"](https://www.trendwatching.com/trends-and-insights/it-feels-like-ai-from-the-movies)

 Written by [Liesbeth den Toom](https://www.trendwatching.com/trends-and-insights/author/liesbeth-den-toom) | May 14, 2024 7:01:33 AM

OpenAI just announced a major upgrade to its flagship product. Judging from [demo videos](https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/), GPT-4o ('o' for omni) will bring unprecedented levels of natural conversation to ChatGPT. While previous versions of the app's voice mode featured a noticeable lag, the new model takes an average of 320 milliseconds to respond to audio inputs, approaching the speed of real-time human conversation. It's also able to react to video input, express emotion, crack jokes and interpret tone and sentiment in a speaker's voice.

As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman [notes in a blog post](https://blog.samaltman.com/gpt-4o) following the announcement, "... the new voice (and video) mode is the best computer interface I've ever used. It feels like AI from the movies; and it's still a bit surprising to me that it's real. Getting to human-level response times and expressiveness turns out to be a big change. The original ChatGPT showed a hint of what was possible with language interfaces; this new thing feels viscerally different."

Hardly a coincidence, then, that the female voice in OpenAI's demos bears a striking resemblance to [Scarlett Johansson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7rbj0a3BT8)...

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