{"slug": "gpt-live", "name": "GPT-Live", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 11, "warners": 2, "score": 3.218, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2026-07-08", "latest": "2026-09-23", "why": "I like \u201ctalk to it while I\u2019m driving\u201d format a lot", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 5, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I like \u201ctalk to it while I\u2019m driving\u201d format a lot", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["GPT-Live", "GPT Live"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 783977296, "item_id": 48998581, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998581", "by": "dicey", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like \u201ctalk to it while I\u2019m driving\u201d format a lot", "excerpt": "I use it to help with learning a language (French) and have been leaning into the CarPlay app. The model has done surprisingly well in conversations where it has to go back and forth across languages in the same response, and I like \u201ctalk to it while I\u2019m driving\u201d format a lot", "context": "learning French", "use_case": "language learning in the car", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's your experience with GPT-Live been like?"}, {"id": 781433392, "item_id": 48839587, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839587", "by": "aristocrazy", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love this voice feature.", "excerpt": "As someone with a chronic eye disease that makes screens difficult, I love this voice feature. It gives me hope that, even if my disease progresses, I\u2019ll be able to rely less on screens and screen readers for many everyday tasks in the future.", "context": "chronic eye disease that makes screens difficult", "use_case": "voice interaction instead of screens", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781362688, "item_id": 48835168, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835168", "by": "mrcwinn", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think this gets much closer.", "excerpt": "Fantastic to see this. I use voice a lot. It\u2019s not quite lived up to my expectations but I think this gets much closer.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversations", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781361872, "item_id": 48835117, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835117", "by": "jacobgold", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "That's exactly what I hoped they would do.", "excerpt": "> \"The best feature is that it can delegate questions out to GPT-5.5 in the background, so you're no longer restricted to a voice model that's several years behind the frontier.\" Wow. That's exactly what I hoped they would do. This issue has held me back from using ChatGPT's voice mode as much as I otherwise would have, because I use it for brainstorming while commuting, exercising, etc., and don't want it to feel st", "context": "", "use_case": "voice brainstorming while commuting", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797095809, "item_id": 49818488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818488", "by": "Multicomp", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Getting GPT-Live to have unique enough voices and to be expressive with how I imagine the voices going in my head is hard to direct", "excerpt": "I direct my own extended daydream Star Trek fanfic (okay, I'm on season 2 episode 17) and recently I looked to see if I could have each scene file be read aloud a la an audiobook or radio drama. Getting GPT-Live to have unique enough voices and to be expressive with how I imagine the voices going in my head is hard to direct, there's not enough control there. So this Gemini 3.8 specific large voice library and abilit", "context": "", "use_case": "voice generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech"}, {"id": 781598016, "item_id": 48849876, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849876", "by": "mlsu", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Why do they want to make it more life-like, if not to encourage the pathological engagement?", "excerpt": "I like this reply. I think you and I use AI the same way and probably have a lot in common. But I read things more cynically than you do. Things to ponder: Read the GPT Live announcement. Why do they want to make it more life-like, if not to encourage the pathological engagement? Why does the model say \"thank you for that insightful question\"? It is not \"just a tool\", that is not the goal. It is designed to be a repl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}]}], "who": [{"by": "dicey", "context": "learning French", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998581", "date": "2026-07-21"}, {"by": "aristocrazy", "context": "chronic eye disease that makes screens difficult", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839587", "date": "2026-07-08"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["voice conversation", "voice generation", "language learning in the car", "voice interaction instead of screens", "brainstorming with voice", "voice assistant"], "compared": [{"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 781357712, "item_id": 48834857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834857", "by": "athyuttamre", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day in the car via our CarPlay integration.", "excerpt": "(Atty from OpenAI here) Yes, GPT-Live is much better at ignoring background noise! I use it every day in the car via our CarPlay integration.", "context": "Attorney at OpenAI", "use_case": "voice assistant in car", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834405", "title": "GPT\u2011Live", "mentions": 9}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817615", "title": "Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008434", "title": "item 49008434", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995524", "title": "Ask HN: What's your experience with GPT-Live been like?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 5, "warn": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"warn": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 797095809, "item_id": 49818488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818488", "by": "Multicomp", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Getting GPT-Live to have unique enough voices and to be expressive with how I imagine the voices going in my head is hard to direct", "excerpt": "I direct my own extended daydream Star Trek fanfic (okay, I'm on season 2 episode 17) and recently I looked to see if I could have each scene file be read aloud a la an audiobook or radio drama. Getting GPT-Live to have unique enough voices and to be expressive with how I imagine the voices going in my head is hard to direct, there's not enough control there. So this Gemini 3.8 specific large voice library and abilit", "context": "", "use_case": "voice generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech"}, {"id": 784863921, "item_id": 49053995, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053995", "by": "hakumei", "date": "2026-07-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the voice conversation experience was interesting", "excerpt": "I got GPT-Live running on Yorishiro, and the voice conversation experience was interesting, so I wanted to share it. https://github.com/sktkkoo/Yorishiro/discussions/68 This is still an experiment and is not released yet. I used the Codex app server.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversation", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 783977296, "item_id": 48998581, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998581", "by": "dicey", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like \u201ctalk to it while I\u2019m driving\u201d format a lot", "excerpt": "I use it to help with learning a language (French) and have been leaning into the CarPlay app. The model has done surprisingly well in conversations where it has to go back and forth across languages in the same response, and I like \u201ctalk to it while I\u2019m driving\u201d format a lot", "context": "learning French", "use_case": "language learning in the car", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's your experience with GPT-Live been like?"}, {"id": 781598016, "item_id": 48849876, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849876", "by": "mlsu", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Why do they want to make it more life-like, if not to encourage the pathological engagement?", "excerpt": "I like this reply. I think you and I use AI the same way and probably have a lot in common. But I read things more cynically than you do. Things to ponder: Read the GPT Live announcement. Why do they want to make it more life-like, if not to encourage the pathological engagement? Why does the model say \"thank you for that insightful question\"? It is not \"just a tool\", that is not the goal. It is designed to be a repl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781438240, "item_id": 48839890, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839890", "by": "y1n0", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used it a few times.  It's weird.", "excerpt": "I used it a few times. It's weird. It reminded me of Christopher Walken with all the oddly placed pauses.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversation", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781433392, "item_id": 48839587, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839587", "by": "aristocrazy", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love this voice feature.", "excerpt": "As someone with a chronic eye disease that makes screens difficult, I love this voice feature. It gives me hope that, even if my disease progresses, I\u2019ll be able to rely less on screens and screen readers for many everyday tasks in the future.", "context": "chronic eye disease that makes screens difficult", "use_case": "voice interaction instead of screens", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781423761, "item_id": 48838985, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838985", "by": "asats", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "having this real time thing be able to plug into it would be the killer feature, otherwise the utility is severely limited", "excerpt": "+1 to the op. This is one of the first things I thought about after using it for a few minutes. I have a large collection of local knowledge bases that I use through codex, having this real time thing be able to plug into it would be the killer feature, otherwise the utility is severely limited. I don't want to talk to it about the weather, I want to brainstorm about the things I am working on, which it currently kno", "context": "", "use_case": "brainstorming with voice", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781400944, "item_id": 48837559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837559", "by": "bariswheel", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "it should suggest that I use the standard gpt client, instead of telling me 'I don't have the capability to do that'", "excerpt": "If it's not able to connect to my other apps like gcal, it should suggest that I use the standard gpt client, instead of telling me 'I don't have the capability to do that' which is misleading as some might presume the normal client doesn't have that capability either.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781364384, "item_id": 48835274, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835274", "by": "mixel", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Besides that really nice demo I will give this a try", "excerpt": "I was missing the part where the grandmas are saying \"I have absolutely no idea what I just said\" :D --- Besides that really nice demo I will give this a try, I tried some voice models before and the issue is I will ask a question, get a answer withing the next ~1 sentence and then the usual LLM bs follows which I just wanted to skip at that point", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversation", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781362688, "item_id": 48835168, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835168", "by": "mrcwinn", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think this gets much closer.", "excerpt": "Fantastic to see this. I use voice a lot. It\u2019s not quite lived up to my expectations but I think this gets much closer.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversations", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781361872, "item_id": 48835117, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835117", "by": "jacobgold", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "That's exactly what I hoped they would do.", "excerpt": "> \"The best feature is that it can delegate questions out to GPT-5.5 in the background, so you're no longer restricted to a voice model that's several years behind the frontier.\" Wow. That's exactly what I hoped they would do. This issue has held me back from using ChatGPT's voice mode as much as I otherwise would have, because I use it for brainstorming while commuting, exercising, etc., and don't want it to feel st", "context": "", "use_case": "voice brainstorming while commuting", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}]}