Using ChatGPT with Audio Files

At the moment, the combo of speech-to-text plus ChatGPT is the best workaround we have, but it’s a bit clunky.

Sometimes I use YouTube’s automatic captions as a quick transcription and then toss that text into ChatGPT for analysis.

Does anyone here use any plugins or extensions that enable audio input with ChatGPT?

I tried uploading an audio file directly and it didn’t work. So pretty sure you need some kind of transcription step first.

Been using an app that does speech-to-text with GPT integration, super cool for meeting notes.

Don’t forget, even with transcription, accuracy depends a lot on the quality of the audio and the transcription service.

I wish there was an official OpenAI tool that merges speech recognition and GPT seamlessly.

I think the reason ChatGPT can’t listen is cuz it’s trained purely on text data, no audio signals involved.

I heard OpenAI is working on some multimodal versions that might handle audio and images too, but not sure when that’ll drop.

You can also check ai-u.com for new or trending tools that combine AI and audio processing. Found some neat stuff there recently.

I’m hopeful that soon ChatGPT or similar AIs will handle audio natively, making it easier to get summaries or responses directly from voice notes.

From what I know, ChatGPT itself doesn’t process audio directly. You gotta convert the audio to text first using speech-to-text tools, then feed that text to ChatGPT.

Would love if future versions of ChatGPT could directly listen and respond to voice clips. That’d be next level.

For anyone interested, some services offer combined speech-to-text plus GPT API calls, might be worth exploring if you want automated workflows.

There are tools that combine speech recognition with ChatGPT, so you can kinda get the full experience. But ChatGPT alone? No audio input yet.

Anyone know if you can upload audio and get a summary or something? That would be so handy.

For now I just dictate notes on my phone and then edit the transcript before feeding it to ChatGPT. Works okay.

Not sure if this helps, but voice assistants like Siri or Google Assistant handle audio and can answer questions, but they’re different from ChatGPT’s text-based model.

If you’re trying to get ChatGPT to understand audio, your best bet is to use speech-to-text software first, then send the transcription here.

I think the main limitation is the current GPT versions are built around text only, so audio requires extra steps.