# 🍔🧠 How OpenAI Built GPT-Live for Low-Latency Voice AI

DevFeed: [🍔🧠 How OpenAI Built GPT-Live for Low-Latency Voice AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-openai-built-gpt-live-for-low-latency-voice-ai-18127.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hungrymindsdev.substack.com/p/how-openai-built-gpt-live-for-low>)

Author: Alexandre Zajac

Published: 2026-09-07T15:31:33Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hungry Minds](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hungry-minds.md>)

Topics: [Conversational AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/conversational-ai.md>), [Low Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/low-latency.md>), [voice ai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/voice-ai.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [Remote Procedure Call (RPC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rpc.md>), [Go](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go.md>)

Tags: [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [low-latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/low-latency.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [rpc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rpc.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [voice-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/voice-ai.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how OpenAI built GPT-Live as a low-latency, full-duplex voice system. It describes a fast audio path that listens and speaks simultaneously, asynchronous delegation of deeper reasoning and backend work, stateful handoffs, optimized protocol boundaries, and a Go-based media frontend.

## Source excerpt

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