I tried using the GPT voice feature as a tour guide

I recently visited Barcelona for just one day and didn’t have time to do proper excursions, so I decided to give GPT’s voice assistant a try as my guide. Since I was part of a group of five people, it felt like a convenient choice. And I’ve got to say, at the first landmark, I was impressed. I got a short, structured backstory, nicely worded with a bunch of vivid adjectives. It felt pretty cool.

We kept moving, heading toward more of Gaudí’s architecture. But by the time we got to the third building, I was already kind of exhausted – all the voiceovers started sounding way too similar. Same structure, same tone, and eventually the fluff completely overtook the actual content. I started comparing it to the written version, and the text felt way more informative and engaging than the voice. So we just switched to reading, since the voice got straight-up annoying at some point – it was repeating itself, not adding anything new, and felt more like an AI article spam from the early AI blog boom, when everything started sounding the same.

To be fair, the tech definitely has potential. I’m sure future iterations of AI will be way better. But as of now, for me personally, it’s not usable. Has anyone else tested GPT in this kind of use case? Maybe I was just doing it wrong?