GPT Transcribe
Notable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.
OpenAI's new speech-to-text service turns spoken audio into written text, offered to developers through its paid API rather than as a free download.
Key facts
- Released
- Jul 29, 2026
- What it does
- Listens: Understands speech and other sounds.Makes sound: Creates speech, music or other audio.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “GPT Transcribe - OpenAI Developers”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Compare GPT Transcribe with
It came out 23 days after GPT-Realtime-2.1, the lab's previous model.
The details
A paid Speech-to-text: Turns spoken audio into written text. Also called transcription or ASR. service from OpenAI that converts speech to text, available only through API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet. access and not free to download.
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