In crowded voice AI market, OpenAI bets on instruction-following and expressive speech to win enterprise adoption

OpenAI has introduced gpt-realtime, a new speech model designed to generate highly naturalistic and expressive voices, aiming to enhance the realism of AI-generated speech in enterprise applications. This development seeks to increase adoption of AI voice technology across industries by providing more human-like and engaging audio outputs, potentially transforming applications such as virtual assistants, customer service, and multimedia content creation.