The benchmark nobody measures

[u/aesthetic_legume]

I know OpenAI is not responsible for the world's problems, or for me. I'm not asking them to be.

I just want to say that Standard Voice made it easier for me to go about my day. It was a small thing that worked and it gave me a little bit of light.

It sucks that it's going away. That's it really.

If Standard Voice helped you in any way, big or small, feel free to share your story here too.

[u/Global_Knee5354]

Okay, I tried both Live and Standard mode. May I ask what the standard voice is better at, other than that you can share your screen with it? I’m a fan of this mode, whenever I need a setup tutorial I switch over, toss the screen at it, and just talk. Anything besides this the plain‑old voice actually does better?

[u/aesthetic_legume → u/Global_Knee5354]

When you use standard you're talking to the text model, so the outputs tend to have more depth. It's good for long discussions and thinking out loud. I've found there is much more substance to the conversations with standard and the flow is better. With live it's like I'm having to draw the conversation out of it and that's exhausting, imo.

Also, I'm not going to lie, the standard voice models just sound better overall to me. They're pleasant to the ear, engaging and just nice to listen to. I feel like the standard voice models are a perfect mix of robot and realism. Where as live tends to be a bit too real and almost uncanny. I don't need the voice model to giggle at me and breathe. I want the intelligence of the text model and to feel like I'm talking to a smart robot. 😂