Hi
Several users have reported to me that a character within my Convai based app is pausing strangely when speaking, so for example they may say something like the following :
“Hello” (un-natural pause) “how are you?” (un-natural pause) “what are you plans for today?” (un-natural pause)
I watched this happen in a chat bubble and found these pauses were happening when narration is being included in the character responses, so in the chat bubble for the above reply this was appearing :
“Hello * smiles *” (un-natural pause) "how are you? * giggles * " (un-natural pause) “what are you plans for today? * smirks *”
I asked the character to not include any narration or anything within asterisks in their responses and they stopped doing so and the pauses also stopped.
I’ve tried adding this instruction to their backstory but it didn’t stop it. I can’t really expect everyone to give the no narration and no asterisk instruction in responses when they are speaking to a character.
Here is the character ID - 37d2b31c-7cea-11ef-bfad-42010a7be011