[brap]

> I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak

I hate this about all voice assistants. They force you to speak in an unnatural way.

It seems like there’s nothing intelligent about when they decide to respond, it’s like they just wait for X milliseconds of silence instead of using the context of what’s being said like a human would.

Sometimes it’s the opposite problem. You finish asking your question but you gotta wait for the assistant to pick it up whereas a human would understand that you’re finished talking based on what you said.

It might seem small and unimportant but I really think it’s one of the main reasons why voice assistants feel so… artificial.

That and long ass responses.

[snypher]

>They force you to speak in an unnatural way.

I think the same thing can happen when speaking to anyone with different societal/cultural factors than yours. We just become more accustomed to it over time and it's less noticed. I think if this GPT had a big green alien face then we would find speaking to it less strange, somehow.

[Cerium]

Yeah, but I don't want to be code-switching with a computer.

[geoelectric]

One of the very few things I like about Alexa is that it has an option for being more forgiving about stammers and pauses. It actually works pretty well.

Maybe the same will make it into ChatGPT at some point.

[EZ-E]

> I hate this about all voice assistants. They force you to speak in an unnatural way.

It would be great to have an option to have ChatGPT stop when saying "over" - it does not feel natural to have to blurt the questions all at once.

[fragmede]

> That and long ass responses.

you can ask it to be terse and shorten answers in the custom instructions section.