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### GPT‑Live‑1 API: Natural Voice for Developers

Hacker News • September 11, 2026 at 1:45 AM ET

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We’re launching GPT‑Live‑1 in the API, giving developers a powerful, natural voice model for building voice-enabled apps and business workflows. First introduced in Chat GPT, GPT‑Live‑1 is capable of listening and speaking at the same time, and, as seen with Codex and Chat GPT Work, can delegate deeper reasoning and actions to the models and tools it is paired with. For the API release of GPT‑Live‑1, we’ve focused on new capabilities that let developers steer and customize voice experiences around their users, workflows, and goals.

A core GPT‑Live‑1 strength, smooth interruption handling, is already delivering business impact: in early evaluations, Speak found that GPT‑Live‑1 gave learners more time to think before the language tutor responded, cutting interruptions by almost 80% versus previous turn-based systems. Key strengths of GPT‑Live‑1 in the API: Interruption handling: Improves interruption handling via a single model that reasons over incoming and outgoing audio together, avoiding the latency and brittle handoffs of chained STT–LLM–TTS architectures. Reasoning & tool calling delegation: GPT‑Live‑1 can delegate reasoning and tool calls to a backend text model like GPT‑6 Astra or a third-party model.

Tone, pace, and style: Lets developers shape an agent’s tone, pace, and conversational style through the system prompt. Silent context management & background noise: Better handles background noise and silence without interrupting the conversation or narrating every step out loud. Long-session reliability: Improves context retention and conversational quality across extended interactions.

Telephony support: Enables deployment of full-duplex voice agents for phone calls, from restaurant reservations to customer support. Try GPT-Live-1Start a session and speak naturally. Interrupt, laugh, change your mind - try it at home or in a loud space like a coffee shop or city street.

See what it can do Talk over it—naturally. Ask for help, then interrupt mid-response to change the question or add detail. Take it with you.

Try a conversation while walking outside or with everyday background noise, and see how it stays with you. Make it playful. Laugh, hesitate, use short acknowledgments, or briefly talk to someone nearby—then continue the conversation.

This demo is time-limited. By using it, you agree to Open AI's Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. Simplify your voice-agent architecture and reduce voice latency Traditional voice agents stitch together speech-to-text, a reasoning model, and text-to-speech.

Each handoff adds latency and creates more opportunities to lose timing, context, or the natural rhythm of a conversation. Developers are often the ones left coordinating those stages, including what happens when someone interrupts, pauses, or changes direction. GPT‑Live‑1 handles listening and speaking in a single model, simplifying the voice layer.

It can respond to interruptions and acknowledgements as they happen, while delegating deeper reasoning to the back end. This lets the conversation continue while work happens in the background. Developers choose the models, tools, and agent harness behind the conversation.

For example, they might pair GPT‑Live‑1 with a model like Luna for high-volume tasks like scheduling or order updates, and use a model like Astra for complex customer issues that require reasoning. That flexibility lets developers match reasoning depth, speed, and cost to each task. GPT‑Live‑1 natively provides ASR transcripts and response text.

It also offers strong alphanumeric understanding and supports keyword biasing. Although GPT‑Live‑1 is not a turn-based model, it natively supports turn detection, so developers can continue to build around explicit turn boundaries. Measuring the full-duplex advantage Across our evaluations, GPT‑Live‑1 improves Full Duplex Bench performance by 30 percentage points over GPT‑Realtime‑2.1, with large gains in turn-taking latency and interactive behavio...

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