Not 100% sure if this is a ChatGPT or iPhone related issue, but when I use voice to communicate with ChatGPT it tries to interpret my English speaking voice into my local language (Finnish in this case) and then also answers in that local language. It is frustrating as one can imagine when you try t…

I’m also having the exact same problem with my Android device as long as I keep the voice Input Language setting as Auto-Detect which is the default value. About 20% of the time it translates my English input into Finnish in the transcription phase and makes somewhat poor translations, which throws …

Same problem: I dictate in English, with an Italian accent, and ChatGPT transcribes it into Italian. I already set “Language” and “Spoken language” both to English, and also provided the same instruction in “Custom instructions”. Please solve this problem because it kills the usability!

Same issue. I am about to smash these devices. I speak English, ChatGPT and also Copilot transcribe it in Italian. A bad italian with a lot of errors, obviously, so I have to start all over again. This is so frustrating. Obviously my language is set to English in every possible place. Still, the th…

Hi, I’d like to raise an issue about how ChatGPT handles language when I dictate my inputs. I am Italian, so the system often assumes I want replies in Italian. However, I am fluent in English and I prefer to interact with ChatGPT entirely in English — input, output, reasoning, tool usage, everythi…

I have the same problem with French. I’ll dictate something in English (with a French accent, sure), and it will auto-translate to French. It’s so annoying, especially while talking about code-related things that don’t translate well out of English. Why is it doing this ?

Same problem here. It translates my English dictation to Malay ( i am from Malaysia). Very inconvenient and is a bad user experience

I also have this problem still, over a year after the original post.

Yeah I have the same issue. I speak English and Welsh, and am learning Spanish. I sometimes will chat to it in Spanish to practice, and we chat fine. But when I look back at the transcript - it’s just gibberish! Same happens when the voice chat is entirely in English, the transcript is a mix of Eng…

ChatGPT voice mode translating to my local language when speaking English

ChatGPT Bugs

ioxnikolaou September 30, 2025, 5:43pm 4

Same problem, both in iPhone and android. I talk in English and it transcribes in Greek and answers in Greek .

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ChatGPT voice mode translating to my local language when speaking English

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