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Enterprises requiring a solution to build sophisticated, natural-sounding voice agents
About gpt-realtime
GPT-Realtime is OpenAI’s most advanced, production-ready speech-to-speech model, now accessible through the fully available Realtime API. It delivers remarkably natural, expressive audio with fine-grained control over tone, pace, and accent. The model can comprehend nuanced human audio, including laughter, switch languages mid-sentence, and accurately process alphanumeric details like phone numbers across multiple languages. It significantly improves reasoning and instruction-following (achieving 82.8% on the BigBench Audio benchmark and 30.5% on MultiChallenge) and boasts enhanced function calling, now more reliable, timely, and accurate (scoring 66.5% on ComplexFuncBench). The model supports asynchronous tool invocation so conversations remain fluid even during long-running calls. The Realtime API also offers innovative capabilities such as image input support, SIP phone network integration, remote MCP server connection, and reusable conversation prompts.
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$20 per month
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Free Version available.
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OpenAI
Founded: 2015
United States
openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-realtime/
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