On July 8, 2026, OpenAI unveiled GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models aimed at more natural human-AI interaction, and began rolling it out the same day to ChatGPT users worldwide on iOS, Android, and web. (announcement )
July 8, 2026 · OpenAI
GPT-Live: Voice AI That Listens and Speaks at the Same Time
A new generation of full-duplex voice models replaces rigid turn-taking with continuous, interruptible conversation — rolling out globally the same day across iOS, Android, and web.
Full-duplex
Decides many times per second whether to speak, listen, pause, or interrupt
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Remastered preset voices, with safeguards against impersonation
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Platforms live from day one: iOS, Android, and web
From Cascaded Pipeline to Continuous Conversation
Early Voicecascaded ASR + LLM + TTS
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2024 · GPT-4oturn-based Advanced Voice
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2025 · gpt-realtimeproduction voice agents
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2026 · GPT-Livefull-duplex + delegation
Talks Now, Thinks in the Background
When complex reasoning or web search is needed, GPT-Live delegates to frontier models like GPT-5.5 while keeping the conversation flowing — outperforming the earlier Advanced Voice Mode on key benchmarks.
GPQA
Expert-level scientific reasoning
BrowseComp
Agentic web search
τ³-Voice
Internal telecom voice-agent eval
What developers welcome
Strongly preferred in human evals of 5–10 min chats
Interruptible, bidirectional flow — no more stilted turns
Hands-free commutes, language practice, multitasking
Current limits
No voice + video / screen sharing yet — legacy modes remain
Fluency may vary outside popular languages
New safeguards address prior voice-cloning issues
Two Configurations, Rolling Out in Phases
GPT-Live-1
Default for paid tiers — Go / Plus / Pro
GPT-Live-1 mini
Default for the Free plan
Expanding in phases over several days from July 8 · API access planned soon.
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