ChatGPT Voice at a glance
OpenAI notified ChatGPT users on November 10, 2026 that Advanced and Standard voice retire on December 11, 2026, leaving GPT-Live, its full-duplex voice model, as the only selectable voice mode. OpenAI says voice use has nearly doubled since GPT-Live launched in July; live video stays on Advanced for now.
What changed with ChatGPT Voice
OpenAI began notifying ChatGPT users on November 10, 2026 that Advanced voice and Standard voice will be retired from ChatGPT Voice on December 11, 2026. Until that date both remain selectable in Settings, Voice; from December 11 they disappear from the picker and anyone who had chosen them is defaulted to Live voice, powered by GPT-Live, the full-duplex voice model OpenAI introduced in July, which can listen and speak at the same time and delegates complex questions to its frontier text models mid-conversation. Existing conversations stay in users' history and can be continued by text or voice.
OpenAI's stated reason is adoption: since GPT-Live launched, voice usage in ChatGPT has nearly doubled and virtually all people using voice now use GPT-Live, so retiring the older modes simplifies the experience and lets the company focus on improving GPT-Live, including response depth, continuity across conversations and personalization. Two exceptions keep Advanced alive behind the scenes: live video and screen sharing continue to run on Advanced voice until GPT-Live can do them, with no date given, and voice in custom GPTs uses Advanced until the custom GPTs deprecation on the same December 11 date.
Why ChatGPT Voice matters for businesses
Why it matters: for voice-agent builders this is the market consolidating around full-duplex conversation, where the model listens while it speaks instead of taking turns, as the default expectation users bring from ChatGPT. Anyone whose product or client demo still benchmarks against the older turn-based Advanced experience has a month to re-test against GPT-Live's behavior before the switch is made for their users.
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