3.8 can’t stick to one accent for more than a few words. It’s pronunciation is all over the place, and its just generally worse than 3.1 in every way i can think of. The voice assistant I’ve built has become horrible as a result, but 3.1 takes forever to respond. Can we just go back to having the accent as part of the input? There was nothing wrong with 3.1s API, why was it made worse?
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