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OpenAI's GPT-Live ends turn-based voice: full-duplex ChatGPT that listens and talks at once — what's new and who gets it
OpenAI's GPT-Live (July 8) rebuilds ChatGPT Voice on a full-duplex architecture — it listens and speaks at the same time, backchannels 'mhmm,' interrupts, pauses, and decides many times a second whether to talk or listen. It delegates hard questions to a frontier model (GPT-5.5 at launch) and comes as GPT-Live-1 for paid users and GPT-Live-1 mini for free users. Here's what actually changes in day-to-day voice use, how it compares, and whether it's worth switching your voice workflow.
Read story →OpenAI ships three new realtime voice models — GA, GPT-5-class reasoning, 70-language translation
On May 7, 2026, OpenAI took the Realtime API out of beta and launched three new voice models: GPT-Realtime-2 (the first voice model with GPT-5-class reasoning), GPT-Realtime-Translate (70 input languages → 13 output languages, live), and GPT-Realtime-Whisper (streaming speech-to-text). The release puts voice-AI on a 'listen-reason-translate-act' arc that affects ElevenLabs, the call-center category, and any product that handles spoken-language input.
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