Has anyone found a fix for Standard Voice Mode reading formatting, links and image data aloud

I've been using ChatGPT Voice for years, particularly during my commute to work. Until recently, I've almost exclusively used Standard Voice Mode, but a recent issue has made it practically unusable. For those unfamiliar with the history, ChatGPT originally introduced voice as a speech-to-text and text-to-speech layer on top of the regular chat model. It essentially allowed you to have a spoken conversation with the same model you'd normally interact with through text. OpenAI eventually introduced Advanced Voice Mode, which used a dedicated voice model rather than the standard text model. They kept the original system available as the legacy Standard Voice Mode. More recently, they released GPT-Live, which is a substantial improvement over Advanced Voice. However, I still find it significantly less capable than GPT-6.1 Sol, which I much prefer for conversations. My biggest frustrations with Live are its tendency to interrupt, make unnecessary vocalisations, struggle with basic instructions and produce frustratingly short responses. It also seems to announce that it's "checking" something at the beginning of practically every reply. In my opinion, its only major advantage over Standard Voice is the ability to interrupt it mid-sentence and have a more natural back-and-forth conversation. This is why I've stuck with Standard Voice for so long. It gives me the intelligence, reasoning, longer responses, better memory utilisation and instruction-following capabilities of the underlying text model, just delivered through speech. Unfortunately, Standard Voice has recently become completely broken for me. It now seems to read formatting and other non-conversational content aloud. For example: Links are read aloud in their entirety, including the full URL. Images trigger it to read out things like filenames, buffer information and padding. Other formatting that should never be spoken is also being read aloud. It's become so disruptive that I've reluctantly switched to Live Voice, despite strongly preferring the capabilities of Standard Voice. Has anyone else experienced this? More importantly, has anyone found a fix or workaround that allows Standard Voice to function normally again? I'd really rather not sacrifice the capabilities of the full text model just to have a usable voice conversation. submitted by /u/solus42666 [link] [comments]

Source: r/ChatGPT | 2026-10-14