Read Aloud has been silently removed from the CHATGPT website and Windows app, along with the entire speech settings menu. However, it still works on mobile. The OPENAI status page says the issue is fixed, but these features are still missing on desktop.
So was this a bug, or was this an intentional removal?
Does anyone with a Workspace account face the same issue?
i have the teams plan and have the same issue, it looks to still work in plus
Here’s the official response I got from OpenAI regarding Workspace issues:
- Read Aloud Feature and Speech Settings
We understand how important the ‘Read Aloud’ feature is for many users. The issue you described, where Workspace users seem to have lost access to this feature, is not intentional. It appears to be a bug or an oversight during recent updates.
- Workspace Subscription and Chat Transfer
We’re sorry to hear about your decision to cancel your Workspace subscription, but we completely understand your frustration. Regarding your request to transfer chats back to your private account, we would like to inform you that merging your account is permanent and cannot be undone.
- General Frustration with Bugs and Prioritization
Your feedback about feeling that free users are prioritized over paying users is deeply concerning to us. We want to assure you that this is not our intention. We’re actively working to improve the stability and reliability of our services across all plans, and your feedback helps us identify areas where we need to do better.
This just confirms what I and many others have noticed—Workspace (team accounts) are treated worse than free or Pro users. Read Aloud got removed for Workspace users, but not for free accounts. There’s no way to transfer chats back to a private account, even though moving to Workspace was instant. Workspace users can’t even export their own data. OpenAI never warned users that transferring to Workspace is permanent, nor that you’d lose export options. And now the only solution they offer? Manually copying every chat.
If you’re a paying Workspace user, you get fewer features and more headaches than free or Pro users. Anyone else experiencing the same? Let’s make some noise about this.
I have same issue! Do we know if a fix is expected soon?
Same question, looking fwd to update I really relied on Read Aloud fcn on web.
I pay a subscription £19.99 to chatGPT, I’m dyslexic and the read out loud Was so great for me but they’ve taken that away. That’s not fair. I’m cancelling my subscription as well even if it’s a bug why are they not fixing it straight away? What kind of bug takes away a feature so important?
I am having this same problem today.
Now is the same problem in the Plus subscription. I also relly on this function very much …
Same. Just started happening this morning.
Same here for a few hours - Plus Subscription.
I hope the problem will be fixed as soon as possible.
Started happening today for me, it sucks because i understand better when its read-
I have “Plus” and this started happening to me today. I liked the read aloud feature so I hope it isn’t gone forever.
Weird it randomly came back, what is OpenAI doing??
Nope, mine is still down.
I don’t know if this is something that is going away for Web users or what.
I hope they dont remove it permanently from the free plan, because this function gives life to the AI, the natural voices are just amazing, without it, there is only just machine texts.
It’s happen to me now too. Yea I absoLUTEly hope it comes back. The Voice menu can still be seen under settings, so I hope its just a bug being fixed. I don’t need to rely on it but I really, really appreciate it, and use the function 80 percent of the time.
I have had this problem since yesterday, and it persists. I have a Plus subscription, and honestly, to me, the Read Aloud option is a must-have; without it, the chat becomes mostly useless…
I am a long-time paying ChatGPT Plus “power user,” and Read Aloud has vanished from the web portal and Windows App as of this morning. It’s still available in my iOS app. I’m assuming this is a bug related to an update? I use Read Aloud 24/7. It’s absolutely essential.
This is my first month as a Plus user, but seeing that they don’t even fix this simple issue for this long, it concerns me a lot for my future with ChatGPT Plus.
As we can see from mobile apps, it’s clear that the system is working without any issues. Just the button is missing on the Web. What’s taking so long for god sake?