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

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Post by epaga »

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.

Well, Siri is not doing it because its „intelligence“ basically sounds to a bunch of if-then-else statements. It’s still the most embarrassing Apple thing in existence. So very bad.

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Post by vunderba »

modeless wrote: post #57

It's possible to run a voice AI similar to this entirely locally on a normal gaming PC with a good GPU using open source AI models. I have a standalone demo I've been working on that you can try if you have a 12GB+ Nvidia GPU: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NC624PBFGB7 It's still very much a demo and not as good as GPT-4, but it responds much faster. It's fun to play with and it shows the promise. Open models hav…

I've seen a couple of these tts + voice recognition + LLM projects popping up on GitHub as well:

https://github.com/modal-labs/quillman

I also built something similar using WebKit speech recognition (limited to Chromium) a year back for my own use but it was hooked to davinci-003.

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Post by afterburner »

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.

Even takes an audible breath. I'm kind of annoyed at that actually, it's deceptive.

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Post by lagt_t »

simoncion wrote: post #121
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine being pissed that someone is hearing and learning from your voice as you’re having conversation together. The concepts of copyright and privacy we have come from a different world and they already made little sense in the 90s with the rise of the web and search. We think of them as absolute but they are a human invention. Arbitrary and specific to the zeitgeist it was born in. We need boundaries for sure. But…

> Imagine being pissed that someone is hearing and learning from your voice as you’re having conversation together. Hello. USian here, talking about things from a USian perspective! YMMV in other countries, visit your local dealership for more information, & etc, etc, etc. A multi-million (or multi-billion) dollar company who can * Store recordings all of my utterances forever * Use my recordings to make tons of mone…

Why aren't you complaining about what happens to your HN posts?

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Post by bradley13 »

I'm unconvinced. Just a brief experiment, but I find the voices grating. They are really well synthesized, but they sound like the classic well-trained call center agent: fake friendly.

I think the dialect is part of it as well: identifiably US West coast, presumably SF-Bay. Something more neutral, say, mid-Atlantic would be preferable for non-USaians. I asked ChatGPT if it could change its dialect - it said yes, but sounded exactly the same anyway.

Maybe you get used to it? Dunno, I'll try again, if I have a use case...

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

gtirloni wrote: post #41
esafak wrote: post #37

What is the privacy policy; how long are recordings retained, are they trained on, etc.?

A chat is a chat is a chat. There is a setting in the app under data controls where you tell it not to use your charts for training.

The setting is only saved client side which is a very odd design decision. I guess they made it that way so that if you disable the flag at one point (yes, it's active by default), the change only effects future requests. This whole privacy situation with openai makes me really angry with Sam Altman, who seems not to care about that at all - this setting seems to be specifically designed to be privacy-disrespecting. It reminds me on the early days of facebook when they set all your profile information to be public, but openai is much worse, because the information you put into the prompt is likely much more sensitive.

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

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Post by madmod »

I just used this to practice my Japanese and it was really helpful having a judgement free correction of my grammar. It definitely takes longer than English because it’s using more tokens but the feedback is very thorough. I wish I could make the pause before sending automatically a bit longer. (I know I can hold to do it manually but the automated send is nice.)
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