If I ask it not to say um and uh it says it will stop. But it usually says um before it even says it will stop and then continues to do so. If a YouTuber says Um and Uh, I would immediately stop the video not subscribe never go back. It is a sign of low intelligence. Why a computer would need to use non-word fillers I don’t understand. I just want efficiency. It makes it unusable for me.
1 Like
have you tried to put it into memory via files vectors a system message /pre instructions, and/ or trying to tailor the section where you tell it what you want it to know about you? that way you dont have to tell it anymore, and you could have it remind itself each time before or after it send the real response… i dont know how you have it set up how yooure interacting with it in the grand scheme or what the goal is, but you could make all of its responses always go to another bit of code or gpt that forces the response… or maybe since it would be unnatural for it to start without it and add that later (i would think) and it still sound natural, that maybe it has to be there to some value or degree? if none of that works try prompting it assuming it must have some attribute to it, even if its like a decimal point and pre-prompt it in the settings to treat the filler as an adjustable scale that is 1-10 with 10 being all filler and 1 being relatively none, and to adjust it to only a fraction of 1.0 (or maybe .00001) make sense?
1 Like
The filler words, um, uh, are not generated by ChatGPT itself. They are added by text-to-speech software to make the voice sound more natural and human-like, or they may occur due to glitches, lag, or latency issues. Looks like the newer voices, yet to be released, fix these distractions. Let’ see…
You believe that the old wives tale of it being a “sign of low intelligence” is hilarious. How do you get through life with this attitude?
5 Likes
this is contrary to what chatgpt voice says … it says that the filler such as um and ugh are from the training data where it was used and kept to allow it to sound more natural… it specifically says that it is part of the voice model. i know it can be wrong even about itself so I’m not saying you are wrong but could you maybe point me into the direction of where it says this? I just want to know the right thing now haha
both psychology and linguistics would disagree with you. Humans use fillers words to indicate they are not done with the sentence, but need a second before continuing their train of thought. It sounds very natural, because most humans do it, even people much smarter than you are.
The only people who generally don’t use filler words are those with some forms of Autism, as they simply don’t see the communicative value of it the way allistic people do. Instead, those autistic people might just abruptly pause mid sentence; which can sometimes appear rude to allistics unless you are aware of it, or might make others think the person is done talking and interrupt them.
The AI using these actually makes it sound a lot more natural.
1 Like