OpenAI announces GPT-Live-1.1: new voices, better accents, less “checking...”
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Why it matters
OpenAI’s only official announcement of GPT-Live-1.1, its first voice-model point release (about 1.25M views); there was no blog post.
Summary
Posted Oct 15, 2026 (18:19 UTC) with a 41-second video. GPT-Live-1.1 brings new voices, better accents and fewer repeated “checking...” fillers to Voice in ChatGPT, Codex and dots. It adds new voices in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean and Japanese, is rolling out to all users that day and is “coming soon” to the API.
Metrics as of 2026-10-16 via api.fxtwitter.com: 1,245,925 views, 9,764 likes, 698 reposts, 464 quotes, 694 replies.
Archived text
New voices. Better accents. And less “checking...”
GPT-Live-1.1 brings these updates to Voice in ChatGPT, Codex, and dots, with new voices in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean, and Japanese.
Rolling out today to all users. Coming soon to the API.