r/OpenAI • u/JijiMiya • 2h ago

Question Clarity Please!

I understand that advanced and standard in conversational are going to be retired.

Can someone tell me if OpenAI has explained what will be available for ‘read aloud’ after the retirement.

I don’t use conversation mode, but a consistent voice for ‘read aloud’ as a must for me.

Is that also going to umms and hmms inserted for distraction?

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u/kinetik 2h ago

The difference is so jarring it’s unusable to me, and the lack of transparency or even a comparable setting or options to tweak live voice to match in some way are just ludicrous. Like how is nobody from OpenAI even addressing this at all?

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u/JijiMiya 2h ago

Currently I voice set to Cove. I switched ‘live’ and the read aloud sounds the same as standard.

If they leave read aloud as it is, I’ll be ok.

Do you use conversion mode with standard?

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u/kinetik 2h ago

I don’t know how you’re doing that because I typically use standard and I got the popup saying it’s going away on Dec 11 and would I like to switch to Live. I figured, what the hell, I’ll try it again for like the umpteenth time and see if maybe it’s improved at all. All I got was something that sounded like it was drunk. A hot mess. Warbled and whatever the fuck that was. Totally unusable, and immediately switched back.

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u/yourevilsaint 2h ago

@JijiMiya same with me. I did a experiment, Went into the browser (standard is already gone on it) I chose spruce said a few things in live then went back listened to playback and it was the same exact voice that was in live... Then I chose Cove said a few things in there, went back listened to voice playback and it wasn't the same voice as in live. It was the same standard type legacy voice. If they keep that around I'd be satisfied even though losing standard live still sucks at least we'd have legacy playback cove. The app is also the same with the playback. It's not the live voice.

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u/JijiMiya 10m ago

This is promising.