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OpenAI made gpt-live-1 generally available on v1/live/sessions, billed per second, with backend model and tool calls charged separately. openai-python 3.12.0 adds sync and async WebSocket helpers for primary, sideband and fork connections. Until now the voice model had been available only in ChatGPT, since its July launch. With a sideband connection, a voice front end can keep talking while a separate agent does the slow reasoning. At $3 an hour before model and tool costs, prototyping phone agents is cheap.
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