I regularly experience issues with the ChatGPT app on iOS where, after speaking a long reply in voice chat, I get a message saying it’s having trouble understanding. This happens in quiet environments while speaking directly into my phone, so the issue isn’t with audibility. I’ve worked around this by using ChatGPT’s dictation feature, but now I’m getting “didn’t quite catch that” messages there too.
I’m not complaining about system limitations, but I’d like to reduce the time spent on messages that aren’t transcribed properly. If connectivity issues are causing this, it would be helpful to receive a visual or auditory alert as soon as the issue is detected, so I don’t keep speaking. Alternatively, temporarily storing the recording for later transcription or transcribing it in chunks as we go could prevent the message from being entirely lost.
I’m sure there are other solutions, but the main goal is to avoid wasting large amounts of spoken information.
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i’d like to second that.
please, can we have better local handling of recordings? it happens too frequently that i lose a long train of thought that i’ve spoken into the microphone – totally lost forever thereafter
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I am having the same issue. Credit to the other two commenters for calmly posting about what is a truly rage-inducing issue.
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+1 to that, it’s insanely frustrating to spend a few minutes carefully dictating a message only for chatgpt to respond like “sorry, didn’t quite get that.” it feels like putting effort into being clear and then getting hit with a “lol wasn’t listening.” absolutely maddening.
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+1 as well. Just spent 8+ minutes allowing my train of thought to flow in a message I was about to send, only to be hit with “ChatGPT didn’t quite catch that.”. I said so much important stuff, and it’s all gone. I don’t even feel like bothering with saying all that again, because I might get hit with that message again.
Instead, for those who might still be struggling, I might have a temporary fix. One thing I can suggest is talking in a voice memo (iOS), letting it transcribe what you’re saying, and copy-paste that into ChatGPT. The transcription isn’t as good as ChatGPT’s, but if you make sure to enunciate your words properly it can pick it up pretty well. I’ve done it in the past due to some connection issues wiping the message I sent (as everyone else is saying). It’s been a temporary fix.
Also +1. I’ve just lost 10 minutes recording a message that disappeared
+1 - I also get frustrated by this.
There should be a “retry/resend” button when this happens so that we wouldn’t have to dictate things again. Quite simple to solve programmatically if OpenAI wants to.
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Yes, there should be a retry option or an alert as soon as there is a problem.
It’s frustrating to lose 5 minutes audio messages
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I lost so many messages so I stop using microphone until it’s fixed. It’s a huge issue technically but it’s more a huge fail of UX design.
Write a bunch of code to store the recording temporarily so we could try resending it.
Very simple solution to make UX 10 times better and solve HUGE problem.
The most ridiculous thing here is that you spend a lot of time describing your ideas in a very details and after it’s failed you cannot even tell these details one more time the same way.
Same thing here, it is very frustrating. We need help with that!!
for the love of god fix this
The creators may feel dictation/voice modes are UI, not core functionality, but I think a lot of us want a computer we can talk to/converse with, and that’s why we use ChatGPT.