AI Launch Profile
Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper for realtime voice reasoning, translation, and streaming transcription in the API.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- OpenAI
- Launch date
- May 7, 2026
- Launch type
- Model Release
- Category
- AI Agents, AI Infrastructure, AI Voice/Audio Tools
- Audience
- Developers, Enterprises, Product Teams
- Pricing
- GPT-Realtime-2 is listed at $32 per 1M audio input tokens and $64 per 1M audio output tokens; GPT-Realtime-Translate is $0.034 per minute and GPT-Realtime-Whisper is $0.017 per minute.
- Free plan
- No
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- No
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- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 2
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy AI Take
A high-signal API launch because it moves voice AI toward realtime agents that can reason, translate, transcribe, and act during a conversation.
Who it is for
Developers and product teams building voice agents, multilingual support, live transcription, realtime translation, and speech-driven product workflows.
What feels promising
The release covers reasoning voice, live translation, and streaming transcription with explicit API pricing, making it easier for product teams to plan experiments.
What feels unproven
Production voice quality will depend on latency, barge-in handling, accuracy under noise, safety behavior, and cost at real call-center scale.
Traction notes
Voice agents are becoming a core enterprise AI category, and this launch gives OpenAI a new realtime audio stack for developers.
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