# OpenAI split a voice model's brain. Then one team deleted 23,000 lines of code.

DevFeed: [OpenAI split a voice model's brain. Then one team deleted 23,000 lines of code.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/openai-split-a-voice-model-s-brain-then-one-team-deleted-23-000-lines-of-code-8477.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/gpt-live-1-voice-api/>)

Author: Amanda Caswell

Published: 2026-09-10T20:08:18Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-engineering.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [event-driven](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-driven.md>), [gpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpt.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-models.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>)

## AI overview

OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 in its API to give outside developers a full-duplex voice model that can manage live conversation while delegating heavier processing to other backend models. The article describes its interruption handling, conversational filler during handoffs, event-driven delegation, and reported benchmark results.

## Source excerpt

Building an AI voice agent has always been clunkier than it seems. Most voice agents are really a chain of The post OpenAI split a voice model's brain. Then one team deleted 23,000 lines of code. appeared first on The New Stack.