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I was hoping to find a voice like Microsoft's "Guy" (a name, not referring to the gender) or Google Assistant's "Pink". An unambiguously white, masculine, American "radio voice" or "audiobook narrator" voice. 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 yo…
> 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?
Sam Altman only said this: https://x.com/sama/status/1838864011321872407 >except for jurisdictions that require additional external review
I was hoping to find a voice like Microsoft's "Guy" (a name, not referring to the gender) or Google Assistant's "Pink". An unambiguously white, masculine, American "radio voice" or "audiobook narrator" voice. 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 yo…
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But that assumes that the speech recognition is perfect. 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.
Whisper is incredibly robust, with a vast amount of language. I use it in German as well as English and it's incredibly reliable. Modern, transformer based ASR is a different ballgame.
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,…
Some related issues I have:
- my thoughts always seem to be jumbled when talking to AI
- I rush to talk quickly because any pause seems to trigger a response
- I worry words or DSL I use won’t be interpreted properly
This all leads to a pretty poor voice experience for me, and I usually forget half of what I want to talk about.
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…
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Well the. Surely OpenAI just need to make a consent popup for the UK they should do that asap
The blocker definitely isn't the current users of the application, but all the people involved in the creation of the training data.
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Sam Altman only said this: https://x.com/sama/status/1838864011321872407 >except for jurisdictions that require additional external review
...I'm not at all clear what this external review would be for either the UK or Switzerland.
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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.
1. It's a bit too agreeable, example: "thats an excellent point" etc every single time.
2. It understands surprisingly well. example: from experience, when I explain something vaguely, my expectation is that it would not understand, but it does most of the time. It removes the frustration of needing to spell out in much more detail.
3. It feels like talking to a real person, but the way the AI talks in a sort of monotonic ways. Example: it would respond with similar tones/excitement every time.
4. Very useful if you need to chat but doesn't want to chat with humans about some subjects like ideas, and explainations.