May 8, 2026

OpenAI brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice — and it changes what voice agents can actually orchestrate

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Voice agents have been expensive to run and painful to orchestrate, not because the models can't handle conversation, but because context ceilings forced enterprises to build session resets, state compression, and reconstruction layers into ever...