OpenAI has announced two API updates aimed at developers. The new model gpt-realtime-1.5 for the Realtime API is designed to handle voice commands more reliably. According to OpenAI’s internal tests, transcription accuracy for numbers and letters improved by more than 10%, performance on logical audio tasks increased by 5%, and instruction-following accuracy rose by 7%. The underlying audio model has also been updated to version 1.5.
In addition, the Responses API now supports WebSockets. This enables persistent connections in which only new information is transmitted, rather than resending the full context with each request. OpenAI says this change can speed up complex AI agents with heavy tool usage by 20% to 40%.
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