Advanced voice conversations cause hang when exporting conversations

[peterkaminski]

Thank You

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Background

Advanced voice mode is a new kind of conversation mode in ChatGPT. Its structure seems to be confusing the export code, perhaps around multi-modal export.

Advanced voice mode conversations are generated on mobile, but then accessible on the desktop web version and in the official export. I am exporting all messages using the desktop web version (in Chrome), which is where Exporter hangs.

Bug Report

What happens: When I try to export all conversations (to either markdown or JSON), the export hangs when it encounters an advanced voice mode conversation. I think the same thing happens when trying to export a single advanced voice mode conversation, but I didn't diagnose that situation as thoroughly.

Expected outcome: Advanced voice mode conversations export normally, perhaps without the WAV file data from ChatGPT. (The contents of the WAV audio file are also provide as a text transcript.) This would allow all conversations to be exported.

As an interim outcome, it would be okay for Exporter to skip over advanced voice mode conversations, with a warning message, so the other messages are exported.

Workaround: Until this bug is fixed, I am identifying the advanced voice mode conversations and excluding them from the export. But it's time-consuming to identify and exclude them, and then they are not represented in the export.

Error Message

The following error message is displayed over and over in the console when processing an advanced voice mode conversation. Note, "Helpful Situation Explained" is the conversation name.

Request Helpful Situation Explained failed: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined
(reading 'startsWith')
at isMultiModalInputImage (userscript.html?name...fb3988e848a: 1178:61)
at Array filter (<anonymous>)
at userscript.html?name...fb3988848a: 1183:42
at Array. flatMap (<anonymous>)
at replaceImageAssets (userscript.html?name...fb3988848a: 1180:61)
at fetchConversation (userscript.html?name...fb3988848a: 1224:13)

Attachments

• advanced-voice-demo-conversation-excerpted-2024-10-12.json - JSON excerpt showing a complete advanced voice conversation from the official export file (conversations.json). Note: Hex IDs (UUIDs and sediment IDs) were rewritten with anonymized IDs, with care taken to anonymize deterministically so references weren't broken. Apologies if there are any mistakes made in anonymization.
• ChatGPT Exporter Cannot read properties of undefined 2024-10-12 at 08 49 [email protected] - screencap of the error message from above

Environment

ChatGPT Exporter:

• Last updated 9/12/2024, 2:54:32 PM
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Tampermonkey® 5.1.1

Chrome Version 129.0.6668.90 (Official Build) (arm64)

macOS Sonoma 14.7

MacBook Pro 2021, Apple M1 Max CPU

[peterkaminski]

See PR #262 for a patch that avoids the hang, but which does not specifically handle advanced voice mode conversations.

Perhaps support for advanced voice mode conversations should be broken out into another issue.