
OpenAI Realtime API: GPT-Realtime-2 Pushes Voice Agents Into Real Workflows
OpenAI introduced GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper for the Realtime API. Here is what changed for voice agents, live translation, transcription, and production AI workflows.
Maya Ellison
Founding Editor
May 9, 2026
9 min read





