OpenAI’s ChatGPT release notes say the company is rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip, a mini version of the model, in ChatGPT Voice, with “more natural accents across languages.” Live also “uses a wider range of short phrases to let you know when it’s searching.”
The same notes list new Live voices “for French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Mexican Spanish, plus Bubbie in English,” and add that “the voices you see may vary by region and account.” Users pick a voice under Settings → Voice, then Voice, per the notes and the ChatGPT Voice help article.
What OpenAI’s help pages confirm
The Voice help page, updated around the same rollout, states that Live is powered by GPT-Live-1.1 and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip depending on plan. Live is the option designed for natural back-and-forth conversation; it can use web search and memory, show visual results through supported widgets, work with text and images in the same chat, and use plugins available to the account. Live still does not support video or screen sharing — those remain on the older Advanced Voice path for eligible mobile users.
Plan usage tables on that page now name GPT-Live-1.1 / Quip explicitly. Examples include Free limited access to Quip; Go up to 3 hours with Quip; Plus up to 3 hours with GPT-Live-1.1; Pro $100 up to 15 hours; and Pro $200 unlimited GPT-Live-1.1 subject to abuse guardrails. Business and Enterprise rows are listed with their own hour or credit rates. Treat those limits as OpenAI’s published product terms, which can change.
For language-specific Live voices, the Voice help page expands the release-notes list into named options (for example French Aube and Rivage; German Sonna and Miko; Hindi Leher and Neer; Japanese Himari and Rindō; Korean Haetsal and Hanul; Mexican Spanish Tinta and Arrullo; English Bubbie), again noting that shown voices may vary by region and account.
GPT-Live-1 itself first appeared in the release notes on 8 July 2026, when OpenAI said ChatGPT Voice was powered by GPT-Live-1 for paid users and GPT-Live-1 mini for Free users, with simultaneous listen-and-speak behaviour. GPT-Live-1.1 is the next named Live generation in those notes.
Community post details — not an OpenAI staff statement
A 15 October 2026 post in OpenAI’s community Announcements category, written by @VeitB, adds colour that is not in the Help Center wording. TSN attributes the following to that community post, not to an official OpenAI corporate statement:
- The update is framed as for “ChatGPT, Codex, and dots”
- The post says it introduces “13 new voices” and “considerably better performance” in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean, Japanese “and many other non-English languages”
- It claims “Rolling out today to all users. Coming soon to the API.”
OpenAI’s own release notes do not use the “13 new voices” figure. Do not present that count as OpenAI’s official tally.
Not in the API yet
GPT-Live-1.1 is not available in the API yet. The community thread’s “coming soon to the API” line is a forward-looking remark from that post; a reply in the same thread asking whether it was already in the API was answered that it is still coming. TSN is not claiming API availability.
User reports of voice-selection glitches
In the same community thread, several users reported voice-selection problems in Standard (and in one case Advanced) Voice after the Live voice rollout — for example Android Standard/Advanced ignoring the selected voice while Live respected it, or iOS appearing to stay on Standard in the UI while Live audio was used. Those are user reports only, not confirmed OpenAI bug advisories.
Why it matters
Speech-to-speech models are now a competitive surface alongside text chat. TSN previously covered SpaceXSI’s Grok Voice 3.0 and Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech rankings that already referenced GPT-Live-1. A Live-1.1 refresh focused on accents and search-status phrasing is OpenAI’s product answer inside ChatGPT, while API access — if and when it ships — would matter more for third-party voice agents.
What’s still unknown
- Exact API ship date and which Realtime/Voice endpoints will expose GPT-Live-1.1
- Whether the community post’s “13 new voices” count matches OpenAI’s internal catalogue
- How quickly Standard Voice selection bugs reported by users are fixed
What to watch
Watch the ChatGPT release notes and Voice help page for API language, and watch OpenAI’s API changelog separately before assuming Live-1.1 is callable outside ChatGPT.
What this means
- Live-1.1 and Quip are in ChatGPT Voice per OpenAI’s release notes.
- New language Live voices are listed by OpenAI; regional availability varies.
- Not in the API yet. Extra “13 voices” / Codex / dots framing comes from a community Announcements post, not the Help Center.
Sources
- OpenAI Help Center, “ChatGPT release notes” — GPT-Live-1.1 and new voices in ChatGPT
- OpenAI Help Center, “ChatGPT Voice”
- OpenAI Community, @VeitB, “GPT-Live-1.1 is rolling out with new voices and better accents”, 15 October 2026
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