GPT-Realtime-2: Voice Becomes the Agent Interface, Not Just an Input
OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime-2 moves voice from a transcription layer to a native streaming reasoning interface for agents, raising the real competitive bar to latency, interruption handling, and reliability. The shift mirrors telecom QoS: model intelligence is still required, but session quality, error recovery, and trust boundaries will decide whether voice agents can run production workloads.