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I have the feeling that the Advanced Voice Mode is significantly worse than when I used it earlier this week. The voice sounds disinterested, and has weird into

by kubb 1y ago

I have the feeling that the Advanced Voice Mode is significantly worse than when I used it earlier this week. The voice sounds disinterested, and has weird intonation. It used to be excellent for foreign language conversation practice, now significantly worse. Edit: After using up my 15 minutes for testing, I have to say that the new voice is actually not bad, although I was used to something else. But it has a very clear "artificial" quality to it. It also sometimes misinterprets my input as something completely different than what I said, for example "please like my video and subscribe to my channel".

bigshot 1y ago
There’s a 15 minute limit?
- kubb 1y ago
  In the Plus subscription yes. You can also pay 200 dollars per month for Pro, and in that plan, the advanced voice mode is unlimited. 200 bucks is quite a lot, I've gotta say. I wish there was a middle ground option, but even for the 20 dollars for Pro, they should give you more than 15 minutes.
vunderba 1y ago
Is this new? I'm on the Plus plan and just a few days ago carried on a conversation for around 45 minutes while on a walk with my dog. Agreed though, the new voice (at least for Sol) accent sounds significantly degraded particularly when conversing in Chinese.
- kubb 1y ago
  Apparently it's 6 months old [1]. You might be using the standard voice mode (the advanced one has just 1 voice IIUC). [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hdamrm/so_advanced_voice_mode_is_now_limited_to_15/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hdamrm/so_advanced...
  - vunderba 1y ago
    Thanks. OpenAI's docs are frustratingly vague about the whole thing. It seems (assuming the 15 minute hard limit holds true) that I must have been conversing with advanced mode for 15 minutes since Advanced is the default for Plus subscribers on the mobile app, and then it must have possibly handed it off to the standard voice mode after that. Advanced https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9617425-advanced-voice-mode-faq https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9617425-advanced-voice-m... Standard https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8400625-voice-mode-faq https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8400625-voice-mode-faq
  - arthurcolle 1y ago
    No advanced voice mode has multiple voices
    - kubb 1y ago
      You're right.
doctorhandshake 1y ago
Stumbled across the new voice this afternoon after months of not using voice mode and after being impressed by the naturalness, was also let down by the disinterested tone. That combined with the platitudes and tendency to repeat back to me what I was saying without new information left me disappointed with the update.

by kubb 1y ago

bigshot 1y ago

There’s a 15 minute limit?

kubb 1y ago
In the Plus subscription yes. You can also pay 200 dollars per month for Pro, and in that plan, the advanced voice mode is unlimited. 200 bucks is quite a lot, I've gotta say. I wish there was a middle ground option, but even for the 20 dollars for Pro, they should give you more than 15 minutes.

vunderba 1y ago

Is this new? I'm on the Plus plan and just a few days ago carried on a conversation for around 45 minutes while on a walk with my dog. Agreed though, the new voice (at least for Sol) accent sounds significantly degraded particularly when conversing in Chinese.

kubb 1y ago
Apparently it's 6 months old [1]. You might be using the standard voice mode (the advanced one has just 1 voice IIUC). [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hdamrm/so_advanced_voice_mode_is_now_limited_to_15/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hdamrm/so_advanced...
- vunderba 1y ago
  Thanks. OpenAI's docs are frustratingly vague about the whole thing. It seems (assuming the 15 minute hard limit holds true) that I must have been conversing with advanced mode for 15 minutes since Advanced is the default for Plus subscribers on the mobile app, and then it must have possibly handed it off to the standard voice mode after that. Advanced https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9617425-advanced-voice-mode-faq https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9617425-advanced-voice-m... Standard https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8400625-voice-mode-faq https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8400625-voice-mode-faq
- arthurcolle 1y ago
  No advanced voice mode has multiple voices
  - kubb 1y ago
    You're right.

doctorhandshake 1y ago

Stumbled across the new voice this afternoon after months of not using voice mode and after being impressed by the naturalness, was also let down by the disinterested tone. That combined with the platitudes and tendency to repeat back to me what I was saying without new information left me disappointed with the update.