OpenAI releases the Realtime API
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Realtime API released
Why it matters
Voice becomes a developer primitive (speech-to-speech over WebSocket)
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Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-the-realtime-api/Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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