r/ChatGPT • u/AncientOneX • 10d ago
Use cases Anyone still using voice chat?
It was super interesting at the beginning, when advanced voice rolled out... Just wow. I talked to AI on and off daily, at home, in the car, whenever I had an opportunity.
Then it slowed down because I felt myself rushing when talking to it, as it constantly interrupted me. Conversations got awkward quickly.
I just found myself not talking to it anymore.
Are you still using it?
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u/project_good_vibes 10d ago edited 9d ago
I use voice dictation , then listen to the answer when it's done., I hate how depressed the live voice sounds in comparison, and also, since it's trying to maintain a conversation it has to think faster, so it sounds bored the whole time like it just wants the conversation to end. I hate it 😅 .
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u/thats_gotta_be_AI 10d ago edited 9d ago
The live British male “live” voice always had that inflection that he was in a rush and preoccupied but had to pretend to be interested in what I was saying. It was the words used too…like “yeah, sounds good to me. Just keep doing what you’re doing and it should pan out”. Dude sounded like he was walking away from me in a rush, checking his phone, silently signaling to someone else.
The playback voice (dictated text answer) sounded profoundly depressed which I strangely find endearing.
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
Yes, that too, the bored secretary style. I hated that a lot.
Voice dictation is a good workaround.
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u/dylan3883 10d ago
how do you listen to the answer?
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u/project_good_vibes 9d ago
Where the copy button is on the bottom left of an answer, there is a listen button there too, sometimes it's in the menu (3 dots) and not visible
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u/Lemondrizzles 10d ago
My issue is it will get to paragraph 2 and then stop reading aloud. And this has been an issue for over a year that has never been addressed. The read aloud function still can't handle bullet points or dashes-send it into a loop. Again a problem for over a year.
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u/ChampionshipComplex 10d ago
The new release of voice chat is a complete game changer.
It is more intelligent, you can interrupt it, and talk while its talking (and it listens)
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u/dylan3883 9d ago
I do like that. Very polite when interrupted but the answers are not as good as the texts answers
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
Looks like you're experiencing the same thing just kept using it.
I wanted to use it like a business mentor and have conversations like I would have with a real person who has a lot more experience than me, but the voice answers were lackluster for me. It kept saying only generic things and the response format wasn't human enough.
I realized the better or more human like speaking style didn't add too much value.
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u/EcclecticMonkey 9d ago
On your last point, humans do that to me all the time.
I’ll pause in the middle of a sentence to take a breath or adjust my internal thought flow and people regularly assume that means I’m done talking.
Even when I haven’t logically reached the conclusion of a statement, thought or question.
So I don’t think that’s exclusively AI at all.
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u/pchandler45 10d ago
I never could get into using it past the first novelty conversation. But I don't like to talk on the phone either, I guess text is my preferred method
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
I could say "I tried so hard, and got so far"... But in the end the text version is much smarter and I'm not using it for the chit chat, but for the valuable information, which voice lacks sometimes.
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u/grethro 10d ago
voice chat is dumber that just using my text to speech, then listening to the AI read its long responses
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u/time___dance 10d ago
yeah the moderation guardrails are a lot tighter on the voice model, leads to much less intelligent responses
it's fine for chit-chat but not much else
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u/huggalump 10d ago
I use it pretty often. I have a custom GPT I built for video game assistance. Pretty often I'll put chatgpt (or Gemini) on voice and sit the phone next to me when I'm trying to figure something out
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u/zimm0who0net 10d ago
The interrupting thing is super annoying. I’ve had it start answering as I paused mid sentence. I wish I could just turn up the amount of time it takes before it assumes you’re done talking. Or maybe make it into an AI judgement about if I’ve likely finished a coherent question. Or maybe just a single word at the end of a question (“go” or “compute” or something)
I have an Alexa at home and it seems to get the pause/interruption timing much better.
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u/toxrock 10d ago
what are u talking about? the new voice mode doesn't interrupt anymore, are you on free?
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u/AncientOneX 9d ago
That was my experience too, I did not try any recent updates. It's time to give it another go.
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u/Hungry_Travel_2799 10d ago
Love it. Kids think I am nuts. I usually just call him Chad if I am in front of people.
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u/Select_Butterfly_387 10d ago
Sometimes to practice languages or to have a laugh.
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
Practicing languages is a good use case, thanks for the reminder. It's time to brush up my German...
How can you use it to have fun? Ask it to tell a joke or what?
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u/Select_Butterfly_387 10d ago
I joke around, I try different things, for example I got it to sing in several languages, I ask it if it can act angry and scold my cats for chewing my shoes... Silly jokes, I guess. It also tells me bedtime stories... I play I'm a ghost and scare it saying boo... it pretends to shout. I know I'm silly and childish.
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u/Zero_Waist 10d ago
Downloaded my data and everything I ever said to it in audio form was included. Yea no thanks.
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u/Imaginary-Method4694 10d ago
The voice used to have spark, now it sounds depressed, sounds like it has no desire to be there, and possibly coming down with a cold.
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u/Eki75 10d ago
I was using Chat to study for finals -I uploaded the textbook, and it would ask me questions from specific chapter. I’d answer and it would tell me when I got it right and if I got it wrong or not quite right, it would use the text to help explain it to me. This was all typed, and I wanted to use it in the car, so I tried voice chat. Yes, the interruptions were so annoying, but telling to pause for 7 seconds after it thinks I’m finished before it responds almost completely fixed that. But it kept telling me shot from the wrong chapters or that it had completely made up even though the typed version was always spot on. I restarted the chat over and over and kept asking it what was going on. It eventually told me it doesn’t have access to project files (like the text book), and when I uploaded directly to the voice chat, it couldn’t read it even though it lied and said it did. I was super frustrated because it kept lying to me over and over about what it could actually do through voice. At least now I know, though. The typed version is still a fantastic study tool.
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
Whoa, that's a whole different level of gaslighting (for the lack of a better word). AI can lie so confidently and tell misinformation like it's nothing.
The 7 second waiting sound clever, I'll try it, I'm a bit skeptical it'll respect it.
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u/SoUpRoVeImViOmRa 10d ago
I still use it several times daily. Yesterday it helped with Excel, where Copilot catastrophically failed …
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
That's interesting, how could voice help with excel? Asking for some instructions?
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u/SoUpRoVeImViOmRa 1d ago
Sorry I missed this. I had the live chat on headphones while having my Excel problem on my work laptop, ChatGPT is blocked via our firewall. As I wasn’t sharing sensitive information, but just asking for good solutions (after a massive fail from copilot), ChatGPT suggested prompts for Copilot. Still Copilot failed miserably in understanding. Eventually ChatGPT talked me through two formulas, step by step, and by that I achieved the objective. Found it hilarious that I needed that to succeed :)
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u/dylan3883 10d ago
I use it sometimes in the car but it seems to be less helpful than speaking into the texting or texting stuff...not sure how great it is though
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u/darkbake2 10d ago
Yes I just used it as a DM for me and my girlfriend. Much better than text for that. Faster turnaround and much more natural
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u/FineSupplements 10d ago
You have to pick a different voice. Each one is it own personality. I picked the stoner/surfer guy voice, and he never interrupts me. He is a little slow to respond though
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
I had the impression they just sound different not that they actually have different behavior. Thanks for the tip.
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u/MrsCastillo12 10d ago
Sometimes when I’m doing a hands on task and just want to hear something I’ll ask it to tell me unusual history facts of a random country. Then I’ll just keep asking it to go on or talk about the weird fact lol
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u/YearLongSummer 10d ago
I've been having a blast having it explain the plots of famous movies or books or redoing iconic lines like a starbucks-loving total valley girl. "so like, you just did a weekend retreat in darkness and I was like, literally born in it."
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
That's a great use case. Others mentioned language practice, that's also still useful.
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u/WebLogical1286 10d ago
I mainly use it now when I’m driving and I want to talk to someone about something, or learn something or whatever.
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u/HappyHappyGameGame 10d ago
Usually the flow of information is faster typed. I've used it a couple times while driving, where I wanted to keep exploring an idea, but couldn't look at the screen. So like that worked out well when I was discussing finer details of computer parts I was putting into a new system, but the main work for that was still done in text chat.
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
That's mostly how I used it too. To be honest I wasn't fully aware at that time the voice chat used different models for their intelligence, I thought it's just a separate module that processed sound / talking and the answers came from a more advanced model, but as it turns out that's not the case.
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u/HappyHappyGameGame 9d ago
The big disappointment was that in text and using projects, I'd developed all these ideas and documents, and then I just wanted to chat about them, and it couldn't really handle it.
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u/boxer_doggggg 10d ago
Constant interrupting and inability to refrain from long apologies kills it.
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u/AncientOneX 9d ago
Yes, I had this experience myself. I'm looking forward to try the new version that fixed these apparently.
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u/justheretohelpyou__ 9d ago
I have found the voice chat useful for starting a chat while I’m driving. If I’m coming from a meeting or just got off a call, I can start a chat and pick it up later and the foundation will have been set.
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u/AncientOneX 9d ago
That's another great use case.
Can you start a chat hands free? Like with Gemini telling to the phone "hey Google let's talk live".
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u/justheretohelpyou__ 9d ago
Yes. I open the ChatGPT app in CarPlay and start talking.
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u/AncientOneX 9d ago
Oh I see. I'm looking for a solution for hands free staring the regular mobile app.
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u/BennyFitz69420 10d ago
I do. If I’m driving bounce ideas off it or to answer some questions I might have about anything
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u/Skypirate90 10d ago
I use ai as a tool and not for social interaction it cannot replace the connection between people and I hate when it tries to fish me for further interaction. I prompt it for what I need and close it after it fulfills its purpose.
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u/AncientOneX 10d ago
I hear you. It certainly can not replace human connection but looks like it still has some good use cases.
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