Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by vunderba on Saturday June 07, 2025 @05:35PM
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Is this new? I'm on the Plus plan and just a few days ago carried on a conversation for around 45 minutes while on a walk with my dog.
Agreed though, the new voice (at least for Sol) accent sounds significantly degraded particularly when conversing in Chinese.
Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by kubb on Saturday June 07, 2025 @05:41PM
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Apparently it's 6 months old [1]. You might be using the standard voice mode (the advanced one has just 1 voice IIUC).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hdamrm/so_advanced...
Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by vunderba on Saturday June 07, 2025 @06:02PM
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Thanks. OpenAI's docs are frustratingly vague about the whole thing. It seems (assuming the 15 minute hard limit holds true) that I must have been conversing with advanced mode for 15 minutes since Advanced is the default for Plus subscribers on the mobile app, and then it must have possibly handed it off to the standard voice mode after that.
Advanced https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9617425-advanced-voice-m...
Standard https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8400625-voice-mode-faq
Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by arthurcolle on Saturday June 07, 2025 @07:19PM
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No advanced voice mode has multiple voices
Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by kubb on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:23AM
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You're right.
Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by bigshot on Saturday June 07, 2025 @05:27PM
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There’s a 15 minute limit?
Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by kubb on Saturday June 07, 2025 @05:30PM
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In the Plus subscription yes. You can also pay 200 dollars per month for Pro, and in that plan, the advanced voice mode is unlimited. 200 bucks is quite a lot, I've gotta say. I wish there was a middle ground option, but even for the 20 dollars for Pro, they should give you more than 15 minutes.
Re:Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
by doctorhandshake on Saturday June 07, 2025 @08:42PM
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Stumbled across the new voice this afternoon after months of not using voice mode and after being impressed by the naturalness, was also let down by the disinterested tone. That combined with the platitudes and tendency to repeat back to me what I was saying without new information left me disappointed with the update.
Edit: After using up my 15 minutes for testing, I have to say that the new voice is actually not bad, although I was used to something else. But it has a very clear "artificial" quality to it. It also sometimes misinterprets my input as something completely different than what I said, for example "please like my video and subscribe to my channel".