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

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Post by luma »

gsharma wrote: post #32

I wonder why they launched it today, when it was supposed to be a week-off for all OAI employees and amidst whatever else is going on? One possibility is to capture Thanksgiving gatherings as a growth hack where people demo this to their families/friends and increase app downloads for OAI.

My theory is that it was nearing ready for release so they pushed it out to deflect some of the bad press over recent drama. I'd suspect the challenge with releasing something like this is about 2% "the code" and 98% scaling it out to everyone and making that not explode.

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

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Post by WendyTheWillow »

vore wrote: post #150
WendyTheWillow wrote: post #148

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Good thing podcasts never have false/misleading information on them...

This is an absurd argument that you are just making for the sake of argument and you know it. There's a difference between someone getting things wrong and a LLM shamelessly making something up out of the whole cloth.

No; I'm much more confident in ChatGPT's accuracy than I am in a random podcast's accuracy.

Podcasts tend to be relatively terrible, accuracy wise. If the alternative is learning from ChatGPT, your odds of getting correct information is substantially higher.

Podcasts are entertaining! But not where I would go to learn anything.

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

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Post by globular-toast »

afterburner wrote: post #134
smusamashah wrote: post #12

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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.

That's lame. Why are they making it pretend to be human? What a silly thing to put effort into.

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

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Post by The_Colonel »

charles_f wrote: post #108

I don't get why in the midst of llm craze, Amazon is ditching devs from Alexa. It seems like abandoning a product for which the right technology just got invented

Yes, this is the missing piece to make all those voice assistants actually ... assistants. Alexa is for me currently music player and nothing more because it's so Dumb. With ChatGPT, it would be a whole different device for me.

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

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Post by fragmede »

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…

> That and long ass responses.

you can ask it to be terse and shorten answers in the custom instructions section.

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

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Post by bradley13 »

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…

Nope, you're not the only one. I posted as well: they sound to me like your classic, well-trained call center agents: Fake friendly (but please kill me now).

Reminds me way too much of some of the people I had to talk to, when cleaning up my mother's affairs. Places trying to get me to pay bills I did not owe, call center agents "cheerfully" following scripts that they themselves hated. The voices sound exactly like that.

Give me a neutral voice. This is a computer I'm talking to, not a fake friend.

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

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Post by sprobertson »

superultra wrote: post #119
w-ll wrote: post #117

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Me, as a meat popsicle, can you explain to me how the phrase “kind of” is not common? I feel like “kind of” is kind of a common adjective phrase, right?

It is, kind of! I definitely use it frequently, but the quantity that my kids use it is at a whole other level. But it’s a colloquial phrase that I rarely, if ever, hear ChatGPT use in the audio presentation, but looking at the chat transcript, there’s definitely a point at which it begins to use “kind of” in multiple ways in its responses, and it wasn’t before.

A more blatant example: it will start responding in French if you start speaking to it in French. These things are pattern machines and it makes sense that it will pick up on the lingo they fed (just like we will)

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

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Post by bradley13 »

51Cards wrote: post #46

Where is this available? I have the app installed but I don't see a headphones button, just one that seems to record my voice and then attempts to transcribe it for submission (and fails every time). I'm on Android, App icon is the black ChatGPT logo on a white background. Thanks!

For me, it didn't appear until a few hours later. Pending update, maybe? Closing and re-opening the app 2-3 times? No idea, but eventually the headphone icon did appear (bottom right, for me on Android).

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Post by sprobertson »

globular-toast wrote: post #153
afterburner wrote: post #134

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

That's lame. Why are they making it pretend to be human? What a silly thing to put effort into.

It's learned, not programmed. It would take more effort to remove every breath.

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

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Post by osti »

vore wrote: post #149
cosmojg wrote: post #146

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As long as we're entertained, who cares?

If you're replacing a factual podcast with it, maybe you should care a little...

How can you be sure the podcast is factual, are you fact checking everything they say on the podcast?
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