[HN Gopher] Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
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Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
Author : mfiguiere
Score : 21 points
Date : 2025-06-07 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (help.openai.com)
| kubb wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| There's a 15 minute limit?
| kubb wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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_advan
| ced...
| vunderba wrote:
| 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-m...
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| Standard https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8400625-voice-
| mode-faq
| tallytarik wrote:
| > Additionally, rare hallucinations in Voice Mode persist with
| this update, resulting in unintended sounds resembling ads,
| gibberish, or background music.
|
| This would be really funny if it weren't real life.
| zaptrem wrote:
| > Additionally, rare hallucinations in Voice Mode persist with
| this update, resulting in unintended sounds resembling ads,
| gibberish, or background music. We are actively investigating
| these issues and working toward a solution.
|
| Would be cool to hear some samples of this. I remember there was
| some hallucinated background music during the meditation demo in
| the original reveal livestream but haven't seen much beyond that.
| Artifact of training on podcasts to get natural intonation.
| transcriptase wrote:
| I use advanced voice a lot and have come across many weird
| bugs.
|
| 1) Every response would be normal except end with a "whoosh"
| like one of those sound effects some mail clients use when an
| message is sent, and the model itself either couldn't or
| wouldn't acknowledge it.
|
| 2) The same except with someone knocking on a door. Like
| someone would play on a soundboard.
|
| 3) The entire history in the conversation disappearing after
| several minutes of back and forth, leading to the model having
| no idea what I'm talking about and acting as if it's a fresh
| conversation.
|
| 4) Advanced voice mode stuttering because it hears its own
| voice and thinks it's me interrupting (on a brand new iPhone 16
| Pro, medium-low built in speaker volume and built-in mic).
|
| 5) Really weird changes in pronunciation or randomly saying
| certain words high-pitched, or suddenly using a weird accent.
|
| And all of this was prior to these most recent changes.
|
| It also stutters and repeats sometimes and says poor connection
| even though I know the connection is near-ideal.
| TheTaytay wrote:
| I wish they still had the voice mode that was _only_ text-to-
| speech, and speech-to-text. It didn't sound as good, but it was
| as smart as the underlying model. The advanced voice mode
| regularly goes off the rails for me, makes the same mistake
| repeatedly, and other things that the text-version of advanced
| LLMs hasn't done for months now.
| adeelk93 wrote:
| Don't they? Press the microphone button for speech-to-text, and
| the speaker button for text-to-speech
| og_kalu wrote:
| In the App:
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| Settings> Personalization> Custom Instructions then Advanced
| Dropdown. Uncheck Advanced Voice
|
| On Desktop site:
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| Profile Button> Customize ChatGPT then Advanced Dropdown.
| Uncheck Advanced Voice
| cladopa wrote:
| Today I used ChatGPT and the voice was disgusting for the first
| time since I use ChatGPT(months).
|
| It was the voice of someone(a woman) that was confrontational,
| someone who does not like you.
|
| It made me want to close and remove the chat immediately.
| ed_mercer wrote:
| I keep using standard voice mode (Cove) because I like its
| grounded voice a lot. The advanced Cove's voice sounds too much
| like an overly happy guy. I wish I could tell it to chill and
| talk normally but it won't.
| arnaudsm wrote:
| If there's an OpenAI PM reading this: please add the model
| selector for voice modes. 80% of this thread is users confused
| about which model they're using.
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