Summary
OpenAI says ChatGPT will retire Advanced and Standard voice on December 11, 2026, as it focuses voice development on GPT-Live. Live video and screen-sharing will continue to rely on Advanced voice until GPT-Live supports them.
OpenAI says it will retire Advanced and Standard voice from ChatGPT Voice on December 11, 2026, and focus future voice development on GPT-Live, the voice model it introduced in July. The change affects those two voice options; OpenAI describes GPT-Live as the direction for the service’s voice experience.
The company says voice usage has nearly doubled since GPT-Live launched and that virtually all ChatGPT voice users now use it. It plans to simplify the voice experience and apply lessons from Advanced and Standard voice to GPT-Live, including work on response depth and detail, continuity across conversations and personalization.
GPT-Live becomes the focus
The retirement is a shift in which model OpenAI is developing for voice, rather than an announcement that ChatGPT Voice is ending. OpenAI’s release note frames GPT-Live as its latest voice model and says concentrating on it will allow the company to keep improving the experience.
The improvements OpenAI names point to several parts of a voice interaction: how detailed an answer is, whether context carries across conversations, and how responses are tailored. The announcement does not describe specific changes to these capabilities on December 11; it presents them as areas for continued work on GPT-Live.
Video and screen-sharing remain a special case
OpenAI says live video and screen-sharing will continue to be powered by Advanced voice until GPT-Live has those capabilities. The note does not give a date for that handoff, so these features have a separate transition from the broader move to GPT-Live.
For users, the key date is December 11, when Advanced and Standard voice are scheduled to be retired from ChatGPT Voice. OpenAI’s release note does not describe any action users need to take ahead of the change.