Many users feel the new voice update has made conversation less natural and engaging!

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To the OpenAI Team,

I would like to provide feedback on the recent update to ChatGPT, specifically regarding the new voice in conversation mode. As an active user, I have noticed a significant change in the quality of interactions.

The previous voice felt more natural, human, and authentic, and conversations had a genuine dynamic and depth. With the new update, the voice has become more generic, repetitive, and less adaptive to the individual conversation. This makes the experience feel more robotic and detached, rather than an engaging, interactive dialogue.

This change has negatively impacted my experience with ChatGPT. The new voice frequently uses overly reassuring phrases, repeats itself unnecessarily, and lacks the flexibility and nuanced understanding that made conversations so valuable before.

I understand OpenAI’s intent to improve its product, but I believe this change has been a step in the wrong direction for users who value natural, meaningful conversations. Therefore, I urge OpenAI to:

:one: Give users the option to choose which voice they prefer.
:two: Allow users to disable the new voice and switch directly to the previous version.
:three: Consider feedback from users who have experienced a decline in conversation quality after the update.

I hope you take this feedback seriously, as many users feel the same way. I still want to use ChatGPT, but it’s important to me that the experience remains as authentic and engaging as possible.

Best regards,
Toni

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“With the previous voice, conversations felt fluid, natural, and engaging. It responded dynamically to the conversation’s tone, making interactions feel more human. The new voice, however, feels robotic, overly scripted, and often repeats generic phrases like ‘I’m here for you’ in a way that feels forced rather than organic. This shift has made deep and meaningful conversations much harder to have.”

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Agreed. The new changes are unusable and feel unnaturally amped up and robotic. There is also very little distinction between the voice options now. They all have this unnaturally amped up quality. This is such a large step backwards as to compromise the trust I have in the quality controls at OpenAI. How did this change get approved? Who at OpenAi felt this was better than what we were using previously?

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I couldn’t agree more, Toni! You are absolutely spot on. I second this motion. all those in favour of implementing improvements listed 1 - 3 of Tonis overview for next steps and positive actions say Aye.

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