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Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Does that example really work? It's suggesting to ask it where to order 195 pizzas from. Does it have access to active business records like that?

I'm working on making it possible to feed LLMs live data from websites. It is challenging because injecting webpages into LLM prompts directly has a mixed result, especially if there's a smidge of ambiguity or complexity in the webpage HTML, so part of my work is on automatic methods to economically prune, format and feed web data to LLM RAG pipelines.

You can follow my progress on twitter if you're interested (I tweet about other things, don't expect LLM/Data stuff only :)

https://twitter.com/omarkamali

https://twitter.com/themonitoro

Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

#25
Can somebody who knows their stuff about voice synthesis explain to me why chatGPT sounds like it's speaking German with an American accent when I speak to it in German? It's really surprising how believably it sounds like a native American-speaker speaking excellent, just not accent-free, German.

I would imagine that voice synthesis models would somehow be trained on data from native speakers, so why the accent?

Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Am I the only one who doesn't like these specific voices? The quality is incredible, but they feel too cheery/enthusiastic/casual and it just gets annoying after a while.

I made an iOS shortcut a while ago that uses Siri with the ChatGPT app (it has iOS shortcut bindings) and despite Siri being a useless pile of junk compared to this, I actually prefer Siri's voice to this in some ways, because it doesn't feel so over the top.

Maybe this is partly because of different cultural expectations between the USA and Europe? Or maybe I'm just being too cynical and ChatGPT really is that happy talking with me!...

Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Can somebody who knows their stuff about voice synthesis explain to me why chatGPT sounds like it's speaking German with an American accent when I speak to it in German? It's really surprising how believably it sounds like a native American-speaker speaking excellent, just not accent-free, German. I would imagine that voice synthesis models would somehow be trained on data from native speakers, so why the accent?

The same thing happens with Polish, it's your typical Polish Chicago resident.
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