Why use GPT Realtime Whisper on OpenAI API?
OpenAI API offers GPT Realtime Whisper with competitive pricing. OpenAI is a leading AI research and deployment company dedicated to developing safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI) for humanity.
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About GPT Realtime Whisper
GPT Realtime Whisper is OpenAI's streaming speech-to-text model, released May 7, 2026. It transcribes spoken audio live as a speaker talks rather than waiting for utterance completion, making it suitable for live captions, meeting notes, classroom transcripts, and real-time agent pipelines. The model is exposed through /v1/realtime/transcription_sessions and is priced per minute at $0.017 rather than per token.
FAQ
What API model ID do I use for GPT Realtime Whisper on OpenAI API?
Use the model ID gpt-realtime-whisper when calling OpenAI API's API.
Who created GPT Realtime Whisper?
GPT Realtime Whisper was created by OpenAI as part of the GPT Realtime 2 model family.
Is GPT Realtime Whisper open source?
GPT Realtime Whisper is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.