I spent 20 minutes counting everything I hate about ChatGPT’s new voice — and accidentally discovered why it works

A young woman uses a smartphone to interact with a GPT-based voice.

I don’t like ChatGPT’s latest voice model. If you don’t use voice to interact with ChatGPT, this might seem like a strange thing to get worked up about, so let me explain.

Until recently, its voices have all sounded fairly advanced. But there was still something unmistakably AI-y about them. At times, they sounded smooth and even expressive, but also stunted and, well, robotic.