Building an AI voice agent has always been clunkier than it seems. Most voice agents are really a chain of systems passing a conversation back and forth. What you say gets turned into text so a model can figure out how to respond, then that answer has to be turned back into speech; it’s easy to see why things can get robotic fast. Now, OpenAI is trying to collapse that stack. On Wednesday, the company launched GPT-Live-1 in its API , bringing the native, full-duplex voice architecture behind ChatGPT voice mode to outside developers for the first time. Instead of making developers manage the...

Source: The New Stack