Hi there, in my custom GPT, the voice suddenly changed. It’s not Cove anymore, but I can still hear it on ChatGPT-4. Has anyone else had this issue?
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Voices aren’t associated with a particular custom GPT. It’s in user settings, if the voice you are hearing isn’t the one you are expecting, check there.
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In my settings, the selected voice is Cove, and that’s what I hear when I chat in GPT-4. It’s the same voice I heard on my custom GPT until two days ago. Now, the voice has changed it’s not Cove anymore.
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I’m which app?
I’m using the updated ChatGPT app on my iPhone. I have the same bug in the Mac app.
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Yeah i have the same thing. Everything set to Juniper… some other voice. android app
Try changing the voice and changing it back.
I have. I logged out of desktop and app. (Reinstalled the app) Changed voice on both and changed back. Even tried in different orders. Nothing. Basic voice on all custom gpt’s.
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What do you mean by “basic voice”?
I don’t know because i don’t have a name. default voice? i dull female voice. And its not selectable in the voice options.
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Done. I still have the female voice instead of Cove in my GPTs. Furthermore the italian is very broken. As I stated before this is a bug that I didn’t have two days ago.
GPT’s comprehension of my Italian has worsened.
It’s clear that, even though we’re paying for GPT Plus, we’re still beta testers.
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It’s this when you’re asking the model to Read aloud or in Voice mode when you’re taking directly to the model?
Edit: I just confirmed, in Voice mode when interacting with GPTs, the voice you are hearing is Shimmer.
This is intentional.
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Any idea why? It’s a terrible voice. Just to give the CPU some breathing room so people don’t use voice?
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What does “this is intentional” mean? I would like to use the settings I choose as a paying user.
“Shimmer,” besides, is not on my voice list: I see Breeze, Cove, Juniper, and Ember.
As I mentioned before, the overall comprehension quality is worse than before.
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“This is intentional” means precisely that, there’s zero reading between the lines necessary.
Any voice mode interaction with a custom GPT uses the shimmer voice model which is not a selectable option for the voice model to use when interacting with the base models via voice mode.
It is simply a design choice. It is the normal and expected behavior because that is how OpenAI set it up—intentionally.
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Jack, this might be true today, but it has changed recently because I’ve always used Cove’s voice in the vocal chat with my custom GPTs.
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Well, it’s been something people have been taking about for more than six months now,
They may have, at some point, been doing A/B testing with other voices for GPTs, but the experience you are describing is the experience OpenAI wants you to have, it’s not a bug.
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I completely agree. Shimmer should not be the only way. I have created my GPT as a ChatGPT Plus subscriber and I realise that Open AI have https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech options for male voices such as Onyx. I think having a choice of voice is very important and I am looking forward to the fix so that the GPTs use whatever voice the user has set in their personal settings or a custom voice per GPT that fits with the persona of the GPT.
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Please fix this! 50% of the value of voice interaction is is accomplished by setting an appropriate voice for the context of the custom GPT conversatons.
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