As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-transcribe/

# GPT-Live-Transcribe

OpenAI, GPT Transcribe family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-07-28.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | `gpt-live-transcribe` | v1/realtime/transcription_sessions (Realtime transcription session over WebSocket/WebRTC) | https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-live-transcribe |

## Pricing

- Per minute: $0.017
- Unit as published: per minute of realtime audio (USD)
- Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio, text
- Output: text
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 40. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Before it from OpenAI: GPT-Live 1 (2026-07-08) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-1/
- After it from OpenAI: GPT-Live-1.1 (2026-10-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-1-1/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- Low-latency streaming transcription with context hints: Streams transcript deltas with tunable latency and accepts unstructured context, keyword hints and multiple language hints. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-live-transcribe
- Recommended replacement for Whisper streaming use (found after launch): Named (with gpt-transcribe) as the replacement for whisper-1 and gpt-4o-(mini-)transcribe(-diarize), which shut down 2027-02-26. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations

## Notes

Released with gpt-transcribe (file transcription, $0.0045/min) on 2026-07-28 per the changelog. Languages and latency figures not published on the docs page.

Streaming sibling of [gpt-transcribe](gpt-transcribe.md) for captions, voice agents and meeting notes.

Sources:
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-live-transcribe
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-transcribe/