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Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by thewebguyd » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

ZeroCool2u wrote: post #39

Gemini live has been able to do this for over a year now. I can just activate it on my phone and it really works surprisingly well, especially the interruption. I've tested it with my 95 year old Dutch grandmother and it switched seamlessly between English and Dutch with her and handled her poor hearing very well, including her asking for repetition. I'm a little surprised by how much OAI is playing catch up here.

Gemini live is also pretty decent at computer vision stuff too. I've used it while working on my bike & car a few times, with my phone camera and it'll circle/highlight specific screws and parts. You can set your phone up on a tripod and it'll walk you through complete repairs for things.

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by hoppp » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

jonstaab wrote: post #76

This is the opposite direction AI should be going. Human relationships are the most valuable thing we have, and so, naturally, technology seeks to intermediate and now replace them. I'm not Catholic, but this podcast presents a very interesting argument against talking to AI as if they were human: https://newpolity.com/podcasts-hub/debate-chatbots

But a lot of humans can't engage in meaningful technical conversations... So why not use a tool for that?

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by 6thbit » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

The new architecture makes sense, it seems many of the remaining problems like noise and interruptions are at the sound processing and integration level rather than at an architectural or model level now which makes for an exciting new era.

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by Someone1234 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

100ms wrote: post #33

simonw wrote: post #19

I had preview access to this one for a few weeks. It's very good. I had one conversation that lasted a full hour while I was walking the dog, got some good brainstorming done against one of my projects. 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. I did report a fun bug with it though: it…

Is it responsive to personality settings? I actively don't want fake AI girlfriend, but I do get a ton of value out of voice mode. Looking forward to trying this but hoping it's not a creepy overdone mess (like Sesame). Expectations are they'll keep doubling down on fake AI girlfriend approach because the thing I want probably wouldn't drive engagement anywhere nearly as well

I too found this with their previous attempts.

I have my Chat personality settings stripped right down to no-fluff. I'd want voice to be more akin to the Star Trek computer, and less akin to as you said an AI friend, but previously it was tuned too personable/friend-like.

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by HardCodedBias » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

altcognito wrote: post #22

I was hopeful that they avoided the well known sultry voice this go around, but alas. There is little hope for these companies. The full duplex is awesome, and the feedback that it is getting what you're saying is ok, but in some of the demos was a little overkill. I'll agree that using the "Golden Girls" was at least more entertaining than the usual pitch.

"I was hopeful that they avoided the well known sultry voice this go around, but alas"

Why do you care? You can select other voices. Why do you need to control others?

What is at the root of your need for domination?

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by spongebobstoes » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

Jtarii wrote: post #59

savanaly wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have always been able to pick between voices of many kinds though? Do you find them all sultry? From the British woman to the 17th century pirate soundalike?

If there was a voice that stripped away all the affectation I would be more likely to use it. It pretending to be human is extremely off-putting for me.

tell it "speak like a robot without affectation or emotion" in your custom instructions

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by vessenes » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

athyuttamre wrote: post #28

(Atty from OpenAI here) GPT-Live-1 is the first version of a new generation of models, and we believe the full-duplex architecture + delegation enables entirely new ways of human-AI interaction. Would love to hear your feedback!

Can it sing? Is it an end to end multimodal model?

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by 6thbit » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

athyuttamre wrote: post #28

(Atty from OpenAI here) GPT-Live-1 is the first version of a new generation of models, and we believe the full-duplex architecture + delegation enables entirely new ways of human-AI interaction. Would love to hear your feedback!

Can it delegate to just one agent at a time or can it spawn multiple subagents for different tasks?

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by ls-a » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

athyuttamre wrote: post #28

(Atty from OpenAI here) GPT-Live-1 is the first version of a new generation of models, and we believe the full-duplex architecture + delegation enables entirely new ways of human-AI interaction. Would love to hear your feedback!

Are you still using LiveKit for the back-and-forth architecture

Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by throwuxiytayq » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

jonstaab wrote: post #76

This is the opposite direction AI should be going. Human relationships are the most valuable thing we have, and so, naturally, technology seeks to intermediate and now replace them. I'm not Catholic, but this podcast presents a very interesting argument against talking to AI as if they were human: https://newpolity.com/podcasts-hub/debate-chatbots

How would talking to an AI as if it were not human sound? You can probably set your system prompt to insert “beep boop” between sentences and make it refer to itself as “Cybertron9000 Personal Computing Device” if that’s what you like. Is that an improvement? Or are you against voice computer interfaces altogether?