love using read aloud to allow me to listen to the words… sometimes my brain works better in dialog. so i love this feature!
usually ill switch over from the web application to the mobile app on my Android.
about 80% of the time it works beautifully… the other 20% of the time the reading will work fine. but sometimes, on some responses, it will completely stop reading and ill have to return to the app and click the play button again. sometimes this works to get me right back to where it paused. but sometimes its less of a pause and more of a stop where when i press play again it starts from the top. and other times the playback will stop and then immediately start playing again from the time.
its not always in the same spot that it stops and restarts… so its incredibly unpredictable but also beyond frustrating as it wastes my time then running back through the minutes i just listened to.
im currently on the Plus plan, on the Pixel 9 Pro, on Wifi at my house, and what else you need to know im happy to provide answers!
anyone else experiencing this kind of behavior?
thanks yall.
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That same thing happened to me.
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i was imagining that i wasnt alone… Neon, are you also on Android? any predictable pattern to the behavior? can you recreate it at all?
For example if you keep talking to it and keep the voice more than 30 mins on, it stops talking.
Same for when gpt is reading, if the text is long like (2k words) it stops reading the whole thing and starts repeating it.
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gotcha… thanks for the added detail. i hadnt noticed this specific behavior but it makes sense. hopefully someone with technical knowledge of the issues knows what to do.
Hi, I have had that problem on my account that I’ve had for almost two years now. By coincidence I started a new account and don’t have that problem on it. The only things I can think of is it’s the difference in the amount of chats, the usage of memory, the fact I had a bug with the canvas model or whatever the hell that was, or just something else.
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This happens to me all the time on my iPhone 13. (and when I say “all the time”, I mean it literally. There is never a time it does not do it.) After ChatGPT responds and I tap the speaker icon below the response, it begins to read it out loud. And then at varying points, it will suddenly go back to the beginning of the response and start reading again. The next loop through, it will pick a different spot at which to restart. I don’t think I have ever gotten it to read the entire response without any less than 5 restarts. Sometimes it will go for 10 or 15.
very interesting. i wonder if the audio deals with a cache of some sort and thus the new account being less “cluttered” with other content might read aloud without an issue. thanks for sharing.
whoa… shit. that sucks.
super frustrating to have the feature operate with such inconsistency (and possibly even worse in your case as its uber consistent). thanks for posting. hopeful for a fix at some point down the line.