A lighter variant of OpenAI's conversational voice model released on 8 July 2026, built on a full-duplex architecture. It becomes the default voice model for users on ChatGPT's free tier.
Release date
8 July 2026
Access:HostedDeployment:โ Cloud
Overview
Access & deployment
Hosted
Cloud
Weights: Closed
Key parameters
โ Tools
๐ฅ Input: text, audio
Technical specification
License
Proprietary
Features:โ Tool use
Modalities
โฌ Input
textaudio
โฌ Output
textaudio
Capabilities and applications
Native model capabilities
Voice Conversation
Ability to conduct multi-turn real-time voice conversations with context retention and natural speech pacing.
Category: speech
Speech to text
Category: speech
Text to speech
Category: speech
Real-time inference
The model's ability to generate responses with very low latency (>1000 tokens/sec) on specialized inference hardware (e.g. Cerebras WSE), enabling interactive, turn-by-turn collaboration with a human.
Category: coding
Multilingual
Understanding and generating text in many languages.
Category: language
