On Oct 15 OpenAI rolled out GPT-Live-1.1 (successor to GPT-Live-1) and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip (successor to GPT-Live-1 mini), full-duplex voice models that become the default voice for Plus-and-up users in ChatGPT Voice, Codex and dots. New voices cover French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Mexican Spanish, accents are more natural and the constant 'checking...' filler is reduced. Rolling out to all users; API coming soon. The system card reports statistically significant regressions in four synthetic safety categories.
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- ✓Two tiers: GPT-Live-1.1 replaces GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip replaces GPT-Live-1 mini; 1.1 is default for Plus+ including Codex and dots, Quip for everyone else
- ✓New Live voices in 6 languages (French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mexican Spanish) plus Bubbie in English; fewer repetitive 'checking...' fillers while searching
- ✓Full-duplex: listens and speaks continuously, handling pauses, interruptions and pace changes; the system card describes GPT-Live as a two-model system that delegates hard work to thinking models
- ✓System card: parity on production voice evals; statistically significant regressions on sexual, mental health, emotional reliance and gore synthetic evals vs GPT-Live-1
- ✓Rolling out to all users today; API 'coming soon' with no published price, model ID, latency or WER figures yet
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OpenAI released GPT-Live-1.1 and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip on Oct 15, 2026, the successors to GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini. Both are full-duplex voice models: they listen and respond continuously and decide in the moment whether to reply or keep listening through pauses and interruptions. GPT-Live-1.1 becomes the default voice model for Plus-and-higher users, including in Codex and dots; Quip is the default for everyone else.
What changed: more natural accents across languages, new Live voices in French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Mexican Spanish (plus Bubbie in English), and a wider range of short phrases instead of a constant 'checking...' while the model searches. Rollout started for all users; OpenAI says API access is coming soon but has not published a model ID or pricing.
The system card describes GPT-Live as a two-model system that delegates harder work to OpenAI's thinking models and inherits their safeguards; the voice models themselves have no code-execution capability. OpenAI published no latency, WER or quality benchmarks. On safety, production-prompt voice evals are at parity with the predecessors, while synthetic adversarial evals show statistically significant regressions for GPT-Live-1.1 versus GPT-Live-1 in sexual, mental health, emotional reliance and gore categories, which OpenAI says it plans to address. Developers building realtime voice apps should wait for the API docs before migrating and keep their own safeguards for sensitive use cases.
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