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

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Post by MPSimmons »

timby wrote: post #61
lkozloff wrote: post #7

Interesting - this was actually a feature that got me to convert. I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak, but overall it's been great. I've had some interesting discussions and it's helped me structure some thoughts by asking questions and follow-ups, then summarizing our conversation... all while I'm on a walk. One fun thing I did with my family was have i…

Yeah, I wish there was an option to verbally cue that you were finished talking... like an "over and out" thing. Do you know about the feature where you can press the circle to force it to listen and then release for it to answer?

I use it a lot while driving, and that's hard to do in that scenario, but it's cool otherwise.

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

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Post by snypher »

brap wrote: post #49
lkozloff wrote: post #7

Interesting - this was actually a feature that got me to convert. I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak, but overall it's been great. I've had some interesting discussions and it's helped me structure some thoughts by asking questions and follow-ups, then summarizing our conversation... all while I'm on a walk. One fun thing I did with my family was have i…

> I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak I hate this about all voice assistants. They force you to speak in an unnatural way. It seems like there’s nothing intelligent about when they decide to respond, it’s like they just wait for X milliseconds of silence instead of using the context of what’s being said like a human would. Sometimes it’s the opposite pro…

>They force you to speak in an unnatural way.

I think the same thing can happen when speaking to anyone with different societal/cultural factors than yours. We just become more accustomed to it over time and it's less noticed. I think if this GPT had a big green alien face then we would find speaking to it less strange, somehow.

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Post by psadri »

timby wrote: post #61
lkozloff wrote: post #7

Interesting - this was actually a feature that got me to convert. I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak, but overall it's been great. I've had some interesting discussions and it's helped me structure some thoughts by asking questions and follow-ups, then summarizing our conversation... all while I'm on a walk. One fun thing I did with my family was have i…

Yeah, I wish there was an option to verbally cue that you were finished talking... like an "over and out" thing. Do you know about the feature where you can press the circle to force it to listen and then release for it to answer?

You could probably instruct it to behave that way.

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Post by maroonblazer »

ademeure wrote: post #26

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 ove…

Of all of them, Sky's voice seems the most sober. I've been using it as a Plus subscriber for several weeks now and am also very impressed.

Yes, sometimes it thinks I'm done speaking when I'm not, but on the whole it's very good. Siri/Alexa, et al are not only unusable but are now supremely frustrating.

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Post by Aerbil313 »

mickelsen wrote: post #67
timby wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I wish there was an option to verbally cue that you were finished talking... like an "over and out" thing. Do you know about the feature where you can press the circle to force it to listen and then release for it to answer?

It's interesting how in my frustration I intuitively tried that push-to-talk sorta-feature and it worked. Integrating something like Whisper and streaming live text could be neat, especially considering how different cultures handle conversational pauses and turn-taking. Wondering why there's no move towards full-duplex conversations in such tools.

Because it’s hard. I’m not aware of any full duplex speech assistant existing yet.

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Post by Aerbil313 »

smusamashah wrote: post #12
atlasunshrugged wrote: post #6

I just tried it out and I have to say I am blown away. I've never been someone who likes the voice capabilities (tried Siri once or twice, hated it) for just about any service as I can type pretty quickly but this is intelligent enough that I can have an unstructured conversation and still get to the results I want quickly. Very impressive.

I feel blown away and creeped out at the same time. It sounds so natural that's it's creepy. Only question I have now is that is audio being streamed or generated on device.

The new model on the front page atm (StyleTTS) is found to be more humanlike than actual human voice.

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Post by zenlikethat »

breadwinner wrote: post #78

You can ask questions in any language and it automatically detects the language! Tried it and it works amazingly well. It replies in English though.

Always replied in Portuguese for me if requested, with a weird English accent to be fair. It seems whisper will transcribe everything you say (translated if needed) into just one language, usually English, if you mix them. This is with GPT4 though.

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

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Post by janalsncm »

ademeure wrote: post #54
janalsncm wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t care about the voices themselves but the speech recognition is borderline unusable sometimes. It interjects when it shouldn’t and will frequently hear things incorrectly. At one point it misinterpreted me mentioning “tai chi” as “I can’t breathe” and responded with advice about medical emergencies.

Do you mean Siri's voice recognition? If so, 100% agreed. My iOS shortcut uses OpenAI's Whisper API for voice recognition, and Siri (English United Kingdom - Siri Voice 1) for text to speech. I really like dictating things sometimes, and Whisper is perfect for that (automatic paragraphs inside the model itself would be nice but not a big deal). If anyone is interested - the "Whisper speech recognition in iOS" part is…

No, I mean the voice recognition in ChatGPT.

> free except for the OpenAI API usage fees

There are several versions of Whisper which have been distilled and can run locally, so I don’t see what advantage making API calls would be other than increased latency and decreased reliability and data security.

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