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OpenAI Releases Three Realtime Audio Models: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper in the Realtime API

May 8, 2026Hugging Face

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Three purpose-built audio models expand what developers can build with live voice: reasoning agents, speech translation across 70+ languages, and streaming transcription. The post OpenAI Releases Three Realtime Audio Models: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper in the Rea

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