What’s changing
We’re retiring Advanced and Standard voice from ChatGPT Voice on December 11, 2026.
In July, we introduced GPT-Live, our latest voice model that combines natural conversation with frontier intelligence. Since then, voice usage has nearly doubled, and virtually all people using voice in ChatGPT now use GPT-Live. This change will allow us to simplify the voice experience and focus on improving GPT-Live.
We've learned a lot from how people used both Advanced and Standard voice, and we're bringing those learnings into GPT-Live as we continue to improve areas like the depth and detail of responses, maintaining continuity across conversations, and better personalization. Our ultimate goal is to make voice a seamless part of the ChatGPT experience.
We recognize that some people are accustomed to Advanced or Standard voice’s style or way of responding, and these model transitions can be challenging. Our Help Center article on navigating model transitions offers guidance to help with the change.
Live video and screen-sharing will continue to be powered by Advanced voice until GPT-Live has this capability.
What happens when
November 10, 2026:
Users are notified about the retirement.
During the transition period:
Users can continue using Advanced or Standard voice.
December 11, 2026:
Users will no longer be able to select Advanced or Standard voice from the model picker in Settings > Voice. Users who previously selected these models will be defaulted to Live voice.
FAQ
What’s the difference between Live, Advanced, and Standard voice?
Live voice is powered by GPT-Live, our latest voice model that combines natural conversation with frontier intelligence. GPT-Live is a full-duplex voice model, meaning it can listen and speak at the same time. During conversations, GPT‑Live can show it’s paying attention with phrases like “mhmm” or “yeah”, engage in quick back-and-forth, or just stay quiet when you need a moment to think. GPT-Live can also delegate complex questions or agentic tasks to our frontier text models, allowing it to keep the conversation going while handling multiple background tasks.
Advanced voice was powered by our previous turn-based voice model. It natively processed and generated audio, but the model had to wait for the user to stop speaking before responding, resulting in rigid back-and-forth.
Standard voice chained three models together: a speech-to-text model to transcribe your speech, a large language model to produce a response, and a text-to-speech model to convert it back into speech. This experience enabled our original voice experience, but resulted in slow responses and loss of information across voice and text modalities.
What happens to my conversations with Advanced and Standard voice?
Conversations remain in your ChatGPT history and can be continued in text or voice. Voice will default to GPT-Live after December 11, 2026.
What improvements can I expect in Live voice?
We've learned a lot from how people used both Advanced and Standard voice, and we're bringing those learnings into GPT-Live as we continue to improve areas like the depth and detail of responses, maintaining continuity across conversations, and better personalization. Our ultimate goal is to make voice a seamless part of the ChatGPT experience.
What happens to custom GPTs?
Voice with custom GPTs will continue using Advanced voice until their deprecation on December 11, 2026. Learn more about the custom GPTs deprecation.
What happens to live video and screen-sharing?
Live video and screen-sharing will continue to be powered by Advanced voice until GPT-Live has this capability.
How can I export my conversations?
Learn more about requesting an export of your eligible ChatGPT data here.