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When something is not available in EU, you instantly know they're up to no good. edit: Sorry if privacy hurts your feelings, people who downvote me.
> ... you instantly know they're up to no good. You're refering to the EU here, right?
Not that everything they do is good. But something being illegal in the EU is a bad indicator for sure.
I have played with it for 20 minutes and here’s my review: 1. The low latency responses do make a difference. It feels miles better than any other voice chat out there. 2. Its pronunciation is excellent and very human like but it is not quite there. Somehow I can tell instantly that it’s a chatbot, it feels firmly in the uncanny valley. 3. On the same note if I was on call and there was a chatbot on the other side of…
> I find it harder to use than just typing to it Systems like this have existed since the 90s e.g. Dragon albeit far more rudimentary. And the issues are exactly the same: (a) discoverability, (b) efficiency and (c) recoverability. It is so much easier to have a screen with fixed options that you interact with, can easily see your journey and can go back for any mistakes. Versus with our voice which is the clunkiest,…
I have played with it for 20 minutes and here’s my review: 1. The low latency responses do make a difference. It feels miles better than any other voice chat out there. 2. Its pronunciation is excellent and very human like but it is not quite there. Somehow I can tell instantly that it’s a chatbot, it feels firmly in the uncanny valley. 3. On the same note if I was on call and there was a chatbot on the other side of…
> I find it harder to use than just typing to it Systems like this have existed since the 90s e.g. Dragon albeit far more rudimentary. And the issues are exactly the same: (a) discoverability, (b) efficiency and (c) recoverability. It is so much easier to have a screen with fixed options that you interact with, can easily see your journey and can go back for any mistakes. Versus with our voice which is the clunkiest,…
Most people talk faster than they can type.
> Advanced Voice is not yet available in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. That's disappointing. I wonder if it's related to legal issues, technical issues, or just doing a phased rollout?
Did someone figure out if it works when I use a VPN?
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> I find it harder to use than just typing to it Systems like this have existed since the 90s e.g. Dragon albeit far more rudimentary. And the issues are exactly the same: (a) discoverability, (b) efficiency and (c) recoverability. It is so much easier to have a screen with fixed options that you interact with, can easily see your journey and can go back for any mistakes. Versus with our voice which is the clunkiest,…
I understand how (a) discoverability and (c) recoverability are a problem, but what do you mean with (b) efficiency? Most people talk faster than they can type.
Which at least for those of us speaking non-US English is never the case.
And you have only to ring your bank and try and transfer money between accounts with it reading out every account number and asking for confirmation every step of the way. Versus a few clicks with a mouse to see that for almost all operational tasks voice is cumbersome and inefficient.
ChatGPT describes this as "A rich, deep, and smooth tone that is pleasant to listen to for extended periods. This often comes from good control over pitch and timbre, creating a voice that resonates well."
If you watch youtube, voices in this theme are the Pirate Software guy, and the voice of The Infographics show.
There are similar voices for every gender, race, and nationality. As an American, Morgan Freeman comes to mind as a comfy black, masculine narrator voice.
All this is to lead up to my point that companies engage in a meticulous science when deciding who should voice roles, and especially when the product itself is literally just a synthetic voice and they near limitless capacity to shape it.
With that in mind, here are the voices that OpenAI wants us to hear:
Breeze: ambiguous gender, white, feminine
Juniper: female, black Maple: female, white Spruce: male, black, masculine Arbor: male, Australian, masculine Sol: female, white Ember: male, black, less masculine Cove: male, Sal Khan, less masculine Vale: female, British
The only one that could be considered a narrator/radio voice is unambiguously black (great if that's your preference). It just seems weird that they would intentionally exclude a masculine white male, and that sucks because those are always my preferred voices when I'm looking for audiobooks or choosing a computer voice. It sucks in particular because OpenAI is not staffed by dumb people—this exclusion was intentional, and that's obnoxious.
My last note on the Advanced Voice feature is that it makes my phone HOT within a few seconds, which will limit it's usefulness on sunny days when I need hands-free use the most while the phone is mounted to my dash. This is when the device is already liable to overheat (display forced to dim, lagging due to shutting down CPU cores, and in the worst case the phone shutting off and refusing to work until it gets cooler).
Surprising that there isn't a 'hey siri' for chatgpt yet. Obviously, that would make this sort of feature infinitely more useful. This is what monopoly gatekeeping looks like.
The limitations in this feature show the problems with both EU proactive regulation and US underregulation.
Bad regulation has become the biggest issue standing in the way of useful software for humans.
I have played with it for 20 minutes and here’s my review: 1. The low latency responses do make a difference. It feels miles better than any other voice chat out there. 2. Its pronunciation is excellent and very human like but it is not quite there. Somehow I can tell instantly that it’s a chatbot, it feels firmly in the uncanny valley. 3. On the same note if I was on call and there was a chatbot on the other side of…
> I find it harder to use than just typing to it Systems like this have existed since the 90s e.g. Dragon albeit far more rudimentary. And the issues are exactly the same: (a) discoverability, (b) efficiency and (c) recoverability. It is so much easier to have a screen with fixed options that you interact with, can easily see your journey and can go back for any mistakes. Versus with our voice which is the clunkiest,…
I can't keep a conversation going with AI as easily as a person because of my poor skills, no fault of the AI.
I will improve over time, and there is no reason I won't be able to become as natural as jean luc Picard telling his starship what to do.
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A lot of EU laws were copy pasted into UK law to expedite Brexit, so it may be that whatever they're blocked by still applies.
Brexit was finalised in 2021. AI legislation came into vogue 2023 onwards. If there's UK legislation blocking this, then it's entirely on the UK.
Not being a lawyer, I couldn't possibly comment.