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Availability · May 7, 2026

New Realtime voice models

OpenAI released API models for tool-using voice conversations, translation and streaming transcription.

Why it matters

Voice becomes a way to direct actions, beyond reading text responses aloud.

GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate and GPT-Realtime-Whisper were announced as available through the Realtime API.

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