OpenAI launches GPT-Live voice model series ahead of broad GPT-5.6 release
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-Live, a family of artificial intelligence models optimized to process spoken instructions.
The model series will power ChatGPT’s voice mode. Additionally, OpenAI plans to make it available to developers via an application programming interface.
GPT-Live includes two models on launch. GPT-Live-1, the more capable of the two, will be the default option in paid ChatGPT plans while a scaled-down algorithm called GPT-Live-1-mini will power the free tier. The models are rolling out to the iOS, Android and web versions of ChatGPT with support for multiple languages.
ChatGPT’s voice mode previously had to wait until users finished speaking before generating a response. As a result, it wasn’t capable of performing real-time translation. Additionally, the feature could only perform tasks such as searching the web at the end of the user’s monologue even if such tasks could theoretically be completed earlier. That slowed down prompt processing.
