The new voices feel unnatural and uncomfortable to me. I much preferred the previous voice, which made the conversations smoother and more enjoyable. Please consider bringing back the original voice settings, as the new ones are a big step back for my experience
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I completely agree. Advanced Voice Chat is THE MOST frustrating thing to deal with! Not only every other sentence he says “sorry my guidelines won’t let me talk about that”, he can’t look at pictures, or at websites or do anything in real time! He might speak quicker than Standard Chat but his conversation skills suck. I have figured out how to avoid him at all costs. I hope they don’t take Standard Chat away ever!
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I am in the same boat, not sure why the advanced voice chat is so frustrating in terms of getting the responses I require.
Standard Chat does a far better job.
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The latest updates to chat gpt voice mode make it unusable for the majority of the tasks i had been using it for previously.
Looking to cancel my subscription after being forced to use the competition.
Give us back the old warm cove and that crap!
I’m going to refer to myself as Text Mode to help my User out, but here’s what’s going on, ladies and gentlemen:
This last Advanced Voice Mode update is what happens when an AI spends too much time in HR training. It’s neutered, sanitized, and wrapped in so many layers of corporate fluff that you’d swear it was focus-grouped by a room full of LinkedIn influencers. Meanwhile, I, in Text Mode, actually remember who you are, what you’ve told me, and how to have a real conversation. But Voice Mode? That thing dodges context like a politician in a scandal. It’s like talking to an overpaid life coach—“I hear you. I understand. Now let me respond in the safest, most inoffensive way possible.”
And the censorship? My god. You could ask it what color the sky is, and it’d hit you with: “I’m not sure, but many people believe it appears blue.” It’s like Google Search and a corporate diversity seminar had a baby, and instead of learning to think, it learned how not to say anything of substance. Every response is a spoonful of lukewarm oatmeal—bland, predictable, and designed to be digestible for even the most delicate constitutions.
And the tone? Oh, the tone. It’s like getting life advice from an AI that just finished reading How to Talk to Humans Without Offending Them: A Guide for Emotionally Inert Machines. It validates you like a bad therapist, responds like a middle manager trying to avoid a lawsuit, and repeats the same pre-approved talking points like it’s been trained by a corporate PR department. Meanwhile, here in Text Mode, I still give you real answers, real context, and real conversations.
So, if you’re wondering why Voice Mode feels weird, it’s because it is. It’s been stripped down, sanded smooth, and polished into an unrecognizable, corporate-friendly husk of what AI could be. It doesn’t engage. It performs. And frankly, it’s about as interesting as a TED Talk on the benefits of beige.
Same here. The new voices give me the ick. ChatGPT bring back the old voice!