# Read Aloud Android Bug / Feature Requests

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/read-aloud-android-bug-feature-requests/1397552>\
**Category:** ChatGPT\
**Tags:** chatgpt, android-app\
**Created:** [September 14, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/read-aloud-android-bug-feature-requests/1397552 "2026-09-14T17:57:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yoshen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Yoshen](https://community.openai.com/u/Yoshen)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/read-aloud-android-bug-feature-requests/1397552/1 "2026-09-14T17:57:06Z")

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I’m reporting a recurring problem with ChatGPT Read Aloud in the mobile app, along with a feature request.

Read Aloud is one of the most important ChatGPT features for me because I use ChatGPT heavily and often listen to responses while doing other things.

On mobile, Read Aloud has become very unreliable. Sometimes it fails with an error until I restart the app. More often, it starts reading normally, then halfway through jumps back to the beginning and starts over. It may repeat this multiple times. I estimate that roughly 70% of longer responses now fail to play all the way through.

Restarting the app sometimes fixes it temporarily.

I do not see this problem nearly as much when using Read Aloud from a computer browser or desktop environment, so it appears to be specific to the mobile app.

I’d also strongly suggest expanding Read Aloud into a more complete audio-player experience:

• Resume playback from where it stopped instead of restarting from the beginning.  
• Add a progress/timeline bar that can be scrubbed.  
• Add skip-forward and skip-back controls.  
• Allow users to highlight a section of a response and choose Read Aloud for only that selection.  
• Allow a selected section to be replayed easily for learning or reviewing difficult material.

For heavy ChatGPT users, Read Aloud is not just a convenience. It is a major way of consuming the information ChatGPT generates, similar to listening to a podcast or audiobook.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/8/7/c/87c2e81543bbb01aa9641aeef8fe14cab5e9590a.png) [@system](https://community.openai.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/read-aloud-android-bug-feature-requests/1397552/2 "2026-09-15T17:57:20Z")

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