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ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Post by matt-attack »

lakpan wrote: post #248
epaga wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The best part about Siri is that what it replaced was insanely better at the specific task of reproducing music. Why does my iPhone in 2023 need to connect to the internet and shamefully fail when I try to play a song or even change the volume. If anyone still remembers what we had before Siri, you’ll know how well it worked.

Voice Assistant is still available and you can revert to it instead of Siri in Settings.

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Post by _giorgio_ »

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…

Is there a keyword to talk to it, an Alexa equivalent?

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Post by jmccarthy »

Sakos wrote: post #233
jmccarthy wrote: post #106

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While walking the dog today, it talked me through some trade-offs between DBSCAN and isolation forests. Walking + verbalizing the problem is a very different and positive experience for me. I've also used it several times on ~15-20min drives to memorize something I wanted to have available for immediate recall. I had it chunk & quiz me, and by the end of the drive I had it down pat. Fun use of drive time.

> I had it chunk & quiz me Can you go a bit into how this works? How do you prompt it? This is the first use of ChatGPT I've heard of that would directly benefit me.

On a computer, I'd paste in a corpus of some sort as a regular ChatGPT message - just because it's easier to accumulate a big string. Note with GPT4 Turbo and the recent UI upgrades, the context window is so large now that you can paste a sizable body of knowledge, possibly even as an attached file.

I'd then switch to the phone and retrieve the chat from History.

Here's an example prompt I just used to help my son prepare for a DMV written test:

``` I'm going to paste a large list of questions and answers and then switch to voice mode. Once I indicate that I'm ready, begin quizzing me on these questions. Feel free to rephrase slightly. My goal is to achieve complete retention of all of these questions through quizzing and spaced repetition. The questions are California DMV questions. I am preparing to take the written test. 1. *Q:* You may drive off of the paved roadway to pass another vehicle. *A:* Under no circumstances.

2. *Q:* You are approaching a railroad crossing with no warning devices and are unable to see 400 feet down the tracks in one direction. The speed limit is... *A:* 15 mph. ... ```

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